MORLEYS DEPARTMENT STORES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-01
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-07 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+15.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+13.2% vs 2024
Employees
719
-0.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-12.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-01
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-27 | 2025-02-01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £61,147,154 | £63,463,018 | |
| Operating profit | £3,056,629 | £2,710,365 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,740,757 | £2,395,414 | |
| Net profit | £1,983,296 | £1,695,164 | |
| Cash | £4,062,953 | £4,687,551 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,823,450 | £16,676,479 | |
| Net assets | £9,072,928 | £10,268,092 | |
| Equity | £9,072,928 | £10,268,092 | |
| Average employees | 721 | 719 | |
| Wages | £12,718,404 | £13,340,932 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £350,290 | £341,254 |
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 2025-02-01 vs 2024-01-27
-
Turnover
+3.8%
£61,147,154 £63,463,018
-
Cash
+15.4%
£4,062,953 £4,687,551
-
Net assets
+13.2%
£9,072,928 £10,268,092
-
Employees
-0.3%
721 719
-
Operating profit
-11.3%
£3,056,629 £2,710,365
-
Profit before tax
-12.6%
£2,740,757 £2,395,414
-
Wages
+4.9%
£12,718,404 £13,340,932
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 | 2024-01-27 | 2025-02-01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.0% | 4.3% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | 2.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.3% | 16.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 66.9% | 64.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.82x | 1.87x | |
| Interest cover | 9.68x | 8.61x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- THP Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' 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 group's and the parent 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.”
Group structure
- MORLEYS DEPARTMENT STORES LIMITED · parent
- Elys (Wimbledon) P.L.C 100%
- Bodgers (Ilford) Ltd 100%
- Selbys (Holloway) Ltd 100%
- Morleys (Brixton) Ltd 100%
- Morleys (Tooting) Ltd 100%
- Roomes (Upminster) Ltd 100%
- Pearsons (Enfield) Ltd 100%
- Camp Hopson (Newbury) Ltd 100%
- Morleys (Bexleyheath) Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “During the year the Group expanded the Camp Hopson department store business in Newbury by opening a new 20,000 square foot Home Store.”
- “The group also opened a new Fiona Finds Store in Lowndes Street, London SW1 selling curated tableware, accessories and gifts.”
- “On 30 April 2025, Morleys (Tooting) Limited closed its department store and ceased trade at that date.”
- “On 7 March 2025, the ultimate parent company Morleys Stores Ltd entered into a lease with Bath council to operate the historic Jollys department store in Bath trading as Jollys (Bath) Limited. The Store, operating from 60,000 square foot, will be a full line department Store including a significant fashion, beauty and home offer and will include a strong hospitality and services offer. The Store is due to open in September 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES, Tanya | Secretary | 2020-06-22 | — | — |
| CLACHER, Raymond Mark | Director | 2026-01-05 | Nov 1963 | British |
| DREESMANN, Bernard Henry | Director | 2014-09-23 | Jan 1957 | British |
| EGAN, John | Director | 2020-10-01 | Mar 1957 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLOW, Nigel Charles Craig | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2025-01-17 |
| HORDLE, David Ian | Director | 2014-09-23 | 2019-04-30 |
| KAUFMAN, Stan Joel | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2016-10-01 |
| STOCKTON, Neil David | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2018-02-12 |
| SYED, Maura | Director | 2014-09-23 | 2020-06-22 |
| WINSTANLEY, Allan Christopher | Director | 2025-01-13 | 2025-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morleys Stored Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-24 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2021-09-24 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2020-10-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-06-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.