Maynews Limited
Registered name: MAYNEWS LIMITED
Part of James Convenience Retail Limited groupMaynews Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 27 Mar 2025 show net assets of -£834k and 9 employees.
Maynews 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 27 Mar 2025 showed net assets of −£834k and 9 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating” and is based in Chesterfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chesterfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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. From the filing: “The company's immediate parent company is First Stop News Limited. The ultimate parent company is James Convenience Retail Limited.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Maynews Limited’s accounts for the year to 27 Mar 2025 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 P&L — 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
- 9
- Net assets
- −£834k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 27 Mar 2022 | 27 Mar 2023 | 27 Mar 2024 | 27 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 21 | 11 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.5% | ▼47.6% | ▼18.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | −£595k | −£616k | −£723k | −£834k |
| Fixed assets | £76k | £41k | £17k | £13k |
| Current assets | £157k | £134k | £69k | — |
| Debtors | £5k | £7k | £0 | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
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 −£834k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼18%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼24%
- Now £13k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- James Convenience Retail Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- First Stop News Limited75–100%
- Maynews Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Rippleglen LimitedRev. £9.3m · Profit −£38k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 27 Mar 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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