Ernest Bentley & Sons Limited
Registered name: ERNEST BENTLEY & SONS LIMITED
Part of Howarth Timber Group Limited groupErnest Bentley & Sons Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Mar 2024 show net assets of £497k and 2 employees.
Ernest Bentley & Sons Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 showed net assets of £497k and 2 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials” and is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 95 yrs · since 1931
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Ernest Bentley & Sons Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a profit & loss account — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 2
- Net assets
- £497k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No profit & loss | No profit & loss | No profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 20 | 2 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £529k | £302k | £3.2k |
| Net assets | £974k | £588k | £497k |
| Fixed assets | £268k | £0 | — |
| Current assets | £1.3m | £905k | £508k |
| Debtors | £154k | £0 | £12.6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now £497k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.2k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 2
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Howarth Timber Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Howarth Timber & Building Supplies Limited75–100%
- Bentley Holdings (Bowdon) Limited75–100%
- Ernest Bentley & Sons Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.