B DAVIES & SON LTD
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Executive summary
B Davies & Son is a financially fortress-like regional meat wholesaler with £2.65m of net assets, a 78% equity ratio and no debt, built organically over 25 years — but its FY2025 profit is entirely trapped in a £1.41m debtor increase, including £1.07m of unexplained "other debtors," while cash fell 28%. The company's strategic priority is to convert its idle balance sheet into an acquisition-led consolidation play in a fragmenting sector, before working capital drift and an understated asset base consume the capital advantage. A single-director structure and unresolved succession represent the principal execution risk to that agenda.
Shareholders' funds
£2,648,108
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-10-16
- Employees
- 11 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- C/O 3rd Floor Pacific Chambers, 11-13 Victoria Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 5QQ
- Postcode
- L2 5QQ
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-15
- Next due by
- 2027-10-29
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46320 Wholesale of meat and meat products
Officers 2 current · 6 resigned
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 770 ASHTON ROAD, BARDSLEY, OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE OL8 2RJ | 2007-12-05 |
| 129 ROCHDALE ROAD, BURY, LANCASHIRE BL9 7BA | 2000-11-06 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 25 similar companies in L
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2000.
No.3 of the largest wholesale of meat and meat products companies in Liverpool →
Competitors Liverpool
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5. BEXLEYS LTD
This company ranks 3 among wholesale of meat and meat products in Liverpool.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,535 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.