SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-29 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£52K
-57.2% vs 2024
Net assets
-£4K
-102.5% lowest in 5 filed years
Employees
90
-3.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£50K
+42.2% vs 2024
Net assets
7-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
7-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2019-07-31 | 2020-07-31 | 2021-07-31 | 2022-07-31 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | £9,661,307 | £10,250,357 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | £145,207 | £164,346 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | £35,389 | £50,311 | |
| Net profit | — | — | £120,000 | £1,879,000 | £263,050 | -£4,211 | £41,041 | |
| Cash | £0 | £0 | — | — | — | £121,554 | £52,056 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | £50,219 | £50,219 | £1,067,004 | £931,379 | £600,891 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — | £151,288 | -£3,771 | |
| Equity | — | — | £50,219 | £50,219 | £390,819 | £151,288 | -£3,771 | |
| Average employees | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | 93 | 90 | |
| Wages | — | — | £0 | £0 | £0 | £3,223,379 | £3,216,362 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — | — | £174,037 | £154,325 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
+6.1%
£9,661,307 £10,250,357
-
Cash
-57.2%
£121,554 £52,056
-
Net assets
-102.5%
£151,288 -£3,771
-
Employees
-3.2%
93 90
-
Operating profit
+13.2%
£145,207 £164,346
-
Profit before tax
+42.2%
£35,389 £50,311
-
Wages
-0.2%
£3,223,379 £3,216,362
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2019-07-31 | 2020-07-31 | 2021-07-31 | 2022-07-31 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | — | — | — | 1.5% | 1.6% | |
| Net margin | — | — | — | — | — | -0.0% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | — | — | — | 15.6% | 27.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | — | — | 95.7% | 100.1% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | — | 0.78x | 0.74x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | — | — | 1.25x | 1.35x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED 2010-08-27 → present
- FIRMSHARE LIMITED 2010-05-20 → 2010-08-27
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- UHY Hacker Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Yarborough Limited 100%
Significant events
- “secured several new business wins, on top of this we gained extra work from some of our existing customers.”
- “Installation of solar panels at our 5-acre site, and these are now generating 30% savings”
- “A new traffic planning system called Optimize was rolled out. Optimize uses artificial intelligence (Al based optimisation algorithms to generate routing efficiencies and savings, which has improved gross margin.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABEL, Laurence Donal | Director | 2010-05-20 | Jan 1970 | British |
| DAVIS, Ian Alexander | Director | 2010-05-20 | Nov 1969 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, Graham Robertson | Director | 2010-05-20 | 2010-05-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd Distribution Trustee Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-07-28 | Active |
| Mr Laurence Donal Abel | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-07-28 |
| Mr Ian Alexander Davis | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-07-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 58 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-08-11 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-08-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-08-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-08-11 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-08-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-19 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.