THE LAINE BREWING COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-11 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-10
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-03 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£64K
+64.1% vs 2024
Net assets
-£3M
-155% vs 2024
Employees
17
-19% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-196.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-10
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-11 | 2025-08-10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,776,000 | £3,417,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£542,000 | -£1,783,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£614,000 | -£1,821,000 | |
| Net profit | -£620,000 | -£1,713,000 | |
| Cash | £39,000 | £64,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£484,000 | -£2,306,000 | |
| Net assets | -£1,105,000 | -£2,818,000 | |
| Equity | -£1,105,000 | -£2,818,000 | |
| Average employees | 21 | 17 | |
| Wages | £840,000 | £724,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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 2025-08-10 vs 2024-08-11
-
Turnover
-9.5%
£3,776,000 £3,417,000
-
Cash
+64.1%
£39,000 £64,000
-
Net assets
-155%
-£1,105,000 -£2,818,000
-
Employees
-19%
21 17
-
Operating profit
-229%
-£542,000 -£1,783,000
-
Profit before tax
-196.6%
-£614,000 -£1,821,000
-
Wages
-13.8%
£840,000 £724,000
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 | 2024-08-11 | 2025-08-10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -14.4% | -52.2% | |
| Net margin | -16.4% | -50.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 112.0% | 77.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.34x | 0.24x | |
| Interest cover | -7.53x | -46.92x |
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
- THE LAINE BREWING COMPANY LIMITED 2016-03-09 → present
- IB LONDON LIMITED 2010-08-12 → 2016-03-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are satisfied that they have a reasonable expectation that the company has sufficient resources, together with the ability to access additional group liquidity, to continue in operational existence for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements, and therefore continue to adopt the going concern in their preparation. In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “Subsequent to the reporting date, on 23 September 2025, the company announced the cessation of brewing operations and transferred them to a third party.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASHFORTH, Edward Michael | Director | 2019-03-26 | Oct 1973 | British |
| DANDO, Stephen Peter | Director | 2024-09-16 | Jan 1972 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, Peter Andrew | Director | 2010-08-12 | 2025-11-30 |
| GEORGE, Gavin Robert | Director | 2010-08-12 | 2024-09-16 |
| PETTET, Gary | Director | 2010-08-12 | 2018-09-30 |
| SWINDON, Martin Philip | Director | 2010-08-12 | 2019-03-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Laine Pub Company Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 67 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-10-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-06-30 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-06-30 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-05-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.