BAKERS COACHES LIMITED
Company number 03635902 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bakers Coaches is a well-capitalised, family-controlled regional leader in UK coach tourism, straddling tour operation and PSV transport with turnover growth of 5.4% to £15.3m and retention margins around 2.7% — squarely within sector norms but delivered with a balance sheet far stronger than the fragmented, HP-geared industry average. Its vertical integration, depot ownership, and cash-rich position position it favourably against both regional peers and the post-Shearings demand landscape, while its principal risks are demographic concentration and the capital demands of fleet renewal amid Clean Air Zone compliance. Overall, this is a resilient, professionally governed independent operating in the top tier of family-owned UK coach operators.
Shareholders' funds
£4,979,766
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of a Coach operator and package holiday tour operator.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-09-22
- Employees
- 156 (2025 accounts · was 153 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 48 Locking Road, Weston-Super-Mare, Avon, BS23 3DN
- Postcode
- BS23 3DN
- Capital
- 1,400,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-29
- Next due by
- 2027-02-12
Nature of business (SIC)
- 79120 Tour operator activities
Officers 9 current · 8 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9244404 (Tier 2), registered since 2005.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.bakersdolphin.com
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| J N BAKER LIMITED | 2000-06-12 |
| ACRAMAN (166) LIMITED | 1999-04-27 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 88 HIGH STREET, WESTON SUPER MARE, AVON, BS23 1HT | 2009-02-09 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 09/02/2009 FROM, 88 HIGH STREET, WESTON SUPER MARE, AVON, BS23 1HT | 2009-02-09 |
| BUSH HOUSE, 72 PRINCE STREET, BRISTOL, BS99 7JZ | 1999-08-10 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 38 similar companies in BS
The largest employer among its local peers (156 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1998.
No.2 of the largest tour operator activities companies in Bristol →
Competitors Bristol
This company ranks 2 among tour operator activities in Bristol.
The class of 1998
42%
of the 55,900 companies incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.