ASHLEY WILDE GROUP LIMITED
Company number 00477955 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ashley Wilde Group has built a resilient, diversified home furnishings wholesaling business over 75 years of family ownership, with recent financial performance demonstrating improving margins, transformative cash generation, and strategic reinvestment in operational capacity. The company's primary strategic imperative is converting its newly acquired warehouse capability and strengthened balance sheet into accelerated growth—particularly in the Middle East—while managing geopolitical risks that could compress margins and disrupt supply chains. Success will depend on maintaining the design and licensing differentiation that sustains premium positioning, while developing more formalized market and customer concentration monitoring to protect against the revenue volatility exposed by the 2025 US tariff impact.
Shareholders' funds
£24,741,402
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of designing, converting and wholesale distribution of soft furnishing fabrics.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1950-02-03
- Employees
- 114 (2025 accounts · was 115 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Emmanuel House, Travellers Close, Welham Green, Hertfordshire, AL9 7LD
- Postcode
- AL9 7LD
- Capital
- 103,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 7 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-22
- Next due by
- 2027-06-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46410 Wholesale of textiles
Officers 7 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by ASHLEY WILDE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z840936X (Tier 2), registered since 2004.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- ashleywildegroup.com
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| GILBEY TEXTILES LIMITED | 2000-01-07 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GILTEX HOUSE, CLINE ROAD, LONDON, N11 2LR | 1998-05-21 |
| 11 SOLE BAY ST, LONDON E1 6BA | 1987-10-12 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 464 similar companies in AL — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (114 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1950.
Property in England & Wales 5 titles
- Freehold
- 4
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2025-11-06
- Where
- Hertfordshire (5)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD415246 | Hertfordshire | Freehold | 2025-11-06 | — |
| HD478219 | Hertfordshire | Freehold | 2025-11-06 | — |
| HD605848 | Hertfordshire | Leasehold | 2022-01-20 | — |
| HD264356 | Hertfordshire | Freehold | 2005-02-11 | — |
| HD285557 | Hertfordshire | Freehold | 1998-02-09 | — |
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