HEADLAM GROUP PLC
In administrationKey figures
HEADLAM GROUP PLC files its accounts at Companies House on paper. The figures here are for the whole group, taken from its annual financial report in the structured ESEF format (published on the FCA National Storage Mechanism, collected by filings.xbrl.org).
Ratios
2025Summary: HEADLAM GROUP PLC
What kind of company is it?
HEADLAM GROUP PLC is a public limited company registered with Companies House under company number 00460129. It was incorporated on 18 Oct 1948. Its status at Companies House is: in administration. The registered office is in Birmingham (B3). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is activities of head offices (70100).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files group accounts. Turnover was £498,700,000. Loss for the year was £81,900,000. Net assets were £110,000,000, down 42.4% on the previous year. Cash at bank and in hand was £26,100,000. Total assets were £354,700,000 and total liabilities £244,700,000. Figures are available for 6 financial years (2020–2025).
What do public registers and reports show?
HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly plastics, wood, wool. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly plastics, wood, carpets. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 48 days to pay suppliers, and 15% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2024/25 shows median hourly pay for women 45.9% lower than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 2 years.
Who runs and controls the company?
4 of 23 registered charges are outstanding.
Dividends
from the accountsNo dividends were paid in the financial year.
Filed accounts2020–2025
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 667,200,000 | 663,600,000 | 656,500,000 | 525,700,000 | 498,700,000 |
| Profit for the year | — | 33,600,000 | 7,700,000 | -25,000,000 | -81,900,000 |
| Cash at bank and in hand | 61,200,000 | 2,100,000 | 21,100,000 | 12,000,000 | 26,100,000 |
| Total assets | 472,500,000 | 435,400,000 | 462,300,000 | 397,700,000 | 354,700,000 |
| Total liabilities | 240,400,000 | 210,600,000 | 241,900,000 | 206,700,000 | 244,700,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 232,100,000 | 224,800,000 | 220,400,000 | 191,000,000 | 110,000,000 |
| Dividends paid | 6,600,000 | 27,300,000 | 12,200,000 | 4,800,000 | 0 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 48 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 15%
- Standard payment terms
- 15–130 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 34%
- 31 to 60 days 34%
- After 60 days 32%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 30 Jun 2023
- 48
- 36%
- 17%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 48
- 37%
- 17%
- 30 Jun 2022
- 50
- 33%
- 18%
- 31 Dec 2021
- 52
- 31%
- 18%
- 30 Jun 2021
- 51
- 33%
- 19%
- 31 Dec 2020
- 50
- 34%
- 20%
- 30 Jun 2020
- 58
- 21%
- 21%
- Median hourly pay
- women 45.9% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 48.4% lower
- Employer size
- Fewer than 250 employees
Earlier years (4)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2023/24
- women 48.2% lower
- women 47.1% lower
- 2022/23
- women 30.3% lower
- women 48.1% lower
- 2021/22
- women 61.7% lower
- women 61.2% lower
- 2020/21
- women 78.4% lower
- women 66.8% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2022
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: plastics, wood, wool, carpets and special woven fabrics.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: plastics, wood, carpets, glues and enzymes and soaps and waxes.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
7 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £498.7m, net assets £110m
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £525.7m, net assets £191m
- Financial year 2023 endedAccounts: turnover £656.5m, net assets £220.4m
- Financial year 2022 endedAccounts: turnover £663.6m, net assets £224.8m
- Financial year 2021 endedAccounts: turnover £667.2m, net assets £232.1m
- Financial year 2020 endedAccounts: turnover £578.1m, net assets £220m
- Company incorporatedPublic limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.