{"name":"ASCOTTS GROUP LIMITED","company_number":"01256619","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1976-05-03","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"11 Applegarth Drive Questor, Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom, DA1 1JD","postcode":"DA1 1JD","sic_codes":[{"code":45190,"description":"Sale of other motor vehicles"},{"code":45200,"description":"Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles"},{"code":49320,"description":"Taxi operation"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the company continued to be that of taxi cab hire and providing garage facilities for, and services to, taxi cabs.","previous_names":[{"name":"ASCOTT CAB CO. LTD.","changed_on":"2021-09-15"},{"name":"ASCOTT & HOBSON LIMITED","changed_on":"1991-10-08"},{"name":"CHOICETOPIC LIMITED","changed_on":"1979-12-31"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Full","year_end":"30 September","last_made_up_to":"2025-09-30","next_due":"2027-06-30"},"employees":{"count":41,"accounts_date":"2025-09-30"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-09-30","profit_loss":197522,"net_assets":363132,"cash":490633,"average_employees":41},{"financial_date":"2024-09-30","profit_loss":-254315,"net_assets":165610,"cash":838763,"average_employees":52},{"financial_date":"2015-09-30","cash":334049},{"financial_date":"2014-09-30","cash":310446},{"financial_date":"2013-09-30","cash":350428}],"officers":{"current":4,"resigned":6,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":4,"outstanding":2},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Ascotts Group Limited is a solvent, cleanly audited, £27.9m-revenue taxi sales and servicing business whose reported £197,522 profit is almost entirely manufactured from a £272,702 one-off credit and a £181,684 non-cash deferred tax release — underlying trading produced an operating loss of roughly £202,000. The balance sheet carries the real risk: stock of £6.1m equals 80% of total assets against equity of only £363k, and liquidity depends on paying suppliers in 117 days rather than on cash, with interest cover at a fragile 1.24×. The business earns a C− grade — stable but symptomatic — and its prognosis is recoverable, provided management prioritises unwinding inventory (targeting £1.0–1.5m of cash release), rebuilding gross margin through aftersales, and halting distributions until equity and interest cover are restored to safer levels.","website":"https://www.ascottsgroup.co.uk/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/ascott-cab-co","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01256619","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ascott-cab-co/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/ascott-cab-co"}