WICKES GROUP PLC
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Next accounts due
2027-06-28 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-27
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-15 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£92M
+6.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£131M
-10.2% vs 2024
Employees
6,599
+7.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£49M
+109.9% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-28 | 2025-12-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,544,500,000 | £1,636,200,000 | |
| Operating profit | £418,200,000 | £448,600,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £23,200,000 | £48,700,000 | |
| Net profit | £18,100,000 | £37,000,000 | |
| Cash | £86,300,000 | £91,700,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £931,300,000 | £924,700,000 | |
| Net assets | £145,300,000 | £130,500,000 | |
| Equity | £145,300,000 | £130,500,000 | |
| Average employees | 6,114 | 6,599 | |
| Wages | £205,500,000 | £223,700,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,643,000 | £1,699,000 |
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 2025-12-27 vs 2024-12-28
-
Turnover
+5.9%
£1,544,500,000 £1,636,200,000
-
Cash
+6.3%
£86,300,000 £91,700,000
-
Net assets
-10.2%
£145,300,000 £130,500,000
-
Employees
+7.9%
6,114 6,599
-
Operating profit
+7.3%
£418,200,000 £448,600,000
-
Profit before tax
+109.9%
£23,200,000 £48,700,000
-
Wages
+8.9%
£205,500,000 £223,700,000
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 | 2024-12-28 | 2025-12-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 27.1% | 27.4% | |
| Net margin | 1.2% | 2.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 44.9% | 48.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 86.5% | 88.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.00x | 2.36x | |
| Interest cover | 13.32x | 13.98x |
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
- WICKES GROUP PLC 2021-03-17 → present
- WICKES GROUP LIMITED 2019-09-04 → 2021-03-17
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors consider that the Company and Group will be able to continue to trade for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. This conclusion is based upon consideration of the Group's liquidity position and cash flow projections, including a forward-looking severe but plausible downside scenario. The Directors do not believe that there are any material uncertainties over going concern.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'KEEFE, Helen Jane | Secretary | 2021-03-23 | — | — |
| ALLEYNE, Sonita Charlene | Director | 2021-03-23 | Mar 1967 | British |
| CLARE, Mark Sydney | Director | 2021-03-23 | Aug 1957 | British |
| GEORGE, Mark Alexander | Director | 2022-07-29 | Jul 1974 | British |
| HARRICKS, Laura Louise | Director | 2023-06-01 | Dec 1980 | British,Australian,New Zealander |
| IDDON, Michael James | Director | 2021-03-23 | Jan 1965 | British |
| ROGERS, Christopher Charles Bevan | Director | 2021-03-23 | Apr 1960 | British |
| WOOD, David Bernard | Director | 2021-03-23 | Dec 1969 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPG MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2019-09-04 | 2021-03-23 |
| WILLIAMS, Alan Richard | Director | 2019-09-04 | 2021-03-23 |
| WIRTH, Julie Ann | Director | 2021-03-23 | 2022-07-29 |
| TP DIRECTORS LTD | Corporate Director | 2019-09-04 | 2021-03-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Perkins Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-09-04 | Ceased 2021-04-27 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 248 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-04-29 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-05 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-01-05 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-12-24 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-12-24 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-12-19 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-12-15 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-12-10 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-12-10 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-12-08 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-12-08 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 19
- 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.