BATHAMS (DELPH) LIMITED
Company number 01501306 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bathams (Delph) Limited demonstrates the financial profile of a well-managed, conservatively-financed regional family brewery with strong liquidity and growing retained earnings, but faces the strategic challenge common to small tied-house brewers: an ageing asset base requiring capital investment while operating in a cost-inflationary environment. The £132,000 growth in net assets during FY2025 signals healthy underlying trading, yet the net disinvestment in tangible fixed assets (depreciation exceeding additions by £20,260) and the significant increase in intercompany balances warrant careful monitoring. The company's heritage positioning and debt-free balance sheet provide a solid foundation, but succession planning and capital allocation decisions will determine whether this sixth-generation business can sustain its competitive position against larger, better-capitalised regional competitors.
Shareholders' funds
£1,359,813
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-06-11
- Employees
- 109 (2025 accounts · was 111 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Delph, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 2TN
- Postcode
- DY5 2TN
- Capital
- 10,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-26
- Next due by
- 2027-02-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 11050 Manufacture of beer
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by DANIEL BATHAM & SON LIMITED — since 2023-10-10
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- bathams.com
Welcome To Batham's Bathams have become a family born to brew, with the sixth generation now involved in creating and serving a legendary beer of the Black Country. Bathams Bitter, regarded by some as one of the finest in the country, would never have been if it was not for the pernickety tastebuds of pub regulars
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 12 similar companies in DY
The largest employer among its local peers (109 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1980.
Competitors Dudley
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of beer in Dudley.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.