LINNAEUS GROUP BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-04 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£199K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£906M
Equity attributable
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£124,000 | -£102,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£124,000 | -£102,000 | |
| Cash | — | £199,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £910,521,000 | |
| Net assets | — | £906,040,000 | |
| Equity | — | £906,040,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
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Cash
—
Not reported
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Net assets
—
Not reported
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Employees
—
Not reported
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Operating profit
+17.7%
-£124,000 -£102,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | — | -0.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 1.4% | |
| Current ratio | — | 0.28x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- LINNAEUS GROUP BIDCO LIMITED 2015-12-01 → present
- WILLOWS BIDCO LIMITED 2014-09-23 → 2015-12-01
- CARE SCP BIDCO LIMITED 2014-07-21 → 2014-09-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Hazlewoods LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- LINNAEUS GROUP BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Linnaeus Veterinary Limited 100%
- Linnaeus Referrals Limited 100%
- Dick White Referrals Limited 100%
- Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists Limited 100%
- Northwest Veterinary Specialists Limited 100%
- Eye-vet Limited 100%
- Veterinary Specialists (Scotland) Limited 100%
- St Anne's Vets Limited 100%
- City Vets (Exeter) Limited 100%
- Wildbore Veterinary Limited 100%
- St. John Cooper Consultancy Limited 100%
- Cotswold Veterinary Group Limited 100%
- Forest Veterinary Centre Limited 100%
- Palmerston Veterinary Group Limited 100%
- Wilbury Veterinary Services Limited 100%
- Parkhill Vets Limited 100%
- WSHPM Limited 100%
- My Pets Vets Leigh Ltd 100%
- Peak Veterinary Practice Limited 100%
- Primrose Hill Veterinary Clinic Limited 100%
- Blackrock Vets Limited 100%
- Carton Veterinary Clinic Limited 100%
- Firhouse Veterinary Clinic Company Limited 100%
- Hermitage Veterinary Clinic Company Limited 100%
- Nutgrove Veterinary Hospital Unlimited Company 100%
- Linnaeus Veterinary Ireland 100%
- Cellbridge Veterinary Limited 100%
- Bay Vets Limited 100%
- Baldrand Bay Holdings Limited 100%
- Rutco Holding Company Limited 100%
- Colne Valley Veterinary Practice Limited 100%
- JT Vets Limited 100%
- Focus Referrals Limited 100%
- Victoria Veterinary Centre Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The company plans to continue with its strategy of acquiring high quality veterinary practices. The group has funding facilities in place. to fund the planned acquisitions.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASSELL-WARD, Anna Wren | Director | 2023-09-19 | Sep 1981 | British |
| CONNELL, Saskia Turner | Director | 2025-01-31 | Jan 1973 | American |
| GARISH, Brian | Director | 2023-03-31 | Jun 1976 | American |
| SCIPIO DEL CAMPO, Andrew Dominic | Director | 2019-06-25 | Nov 1974 | Canadian |
| WALKER, David John | Director | 2025-02-21 | Apr 1980 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERNAL, Alejandro | Director | 2018-06-19 | 2022-12-31 |
| CONNELL, Saskia Turner | Director | 2023-05-19 | 2023-09-19 |
| COX, Neil Simon | Director | 2014-07-21 | 2018-06-19 |
| COXON, Paul Daryl | Director | 2015-02-24 | 2019-10-04 |
| FEITEL, David Mitchell | Director | 2018-06-19 | 2019-06-25 |
| HENDRICKSON, Julia | Director | 2023-03-31 | 2025-01-31 |
| HILL, Lynne Victoria | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2018-12-31 |
| JOHNSON, Edward Bartholomew | Director | 2019-08-05 | 2023-03-31 |
| KAY, Robert Richard Jonathan | Director | 2014-09-04 | 2018-06-19 |
| MACKWORTH GEE, Alistair | Director | 2018-06-19 | 2019-12-23 |
| MCKEE, William Malcolm, Mr. | Director | 2014-09-04 | 2018-06-19 |
| MOBBS, David Peter | Director | 2014-09-16 | 2018-06-19 |
| REIDY, Ray Andrew | Director | 2019-10-04 | 2023-05-19 |
| RENWICK, Peter William | Director | 2014-09-04 | 2018-06-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linnaeus Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 100 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-03-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-03 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2026-01-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-09-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 3
- 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.