CENTREBUS LIMITED
Company number 03872099 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Centrebus has transformed from a highly leveraged operator into a financially robust regional bus business, with net assets growing 13-fold since FY2022 to £9.9M whilst delivering 14% turnover growth and 26% operating profit growth in FY2025. The company's strategic imperative now shifts from balance sheet repair to proactive value creation—leveraging its strengthened financial position to pursue fleet electrification, selective acquisitions, and contracted service expansion, whilst mitigating fuel price exposure and margin compression through hedging strategies and contract structure innovation.
Shareholders' funds
£9,866,585
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-11-05
- Employees
- 704 (2025 accounts · was 645 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 43 Wenlock Way, Leicester, England, LE4 9HU
- Postcode
- LE4 9HU
- Capital
- 106 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-25
- Financial year end
- 25 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-05
- Next due by
- 2026-11-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49319 Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)
Officers 4 current · 19 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 — Z9549738 (Tier 1), registered since 2006.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
6.5%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HOGANDENT LIMITED | 1999-12-03 |
Previous registered addresses 8
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 102 CANNOCK STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 9HR | 2017-02-08 |
| 37 WENLOCK WAY, LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE4 9HU | 2010-05-25 |
| UNIT 40 HAYHILL INDUSTRIAL, ESTATE BARROW UPON SOAR, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE12 8LD | 2003-11-03 |
| AUSTIN HOUSE 15 FOREST CLOSE, MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICESTERSHIRE LE13 1ST | 2002-02-19 |
| 3 KINGS WAY, GROBY, LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE LE6 0YJ | 2001-08-15 |
| 3 KINGS WAY, GROBY, LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE LE6 0YJ | 2001-01-02 |
| 38 NETHERFIELD ROAD, ANSTEY, LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE LE7 7ES | 2000-11-09 |
| 120 EAST ROAD, LONDON, N1 6AA | 1999-12-02 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 9 similar companies in LE
The largest employer among its local peers (704 staff).
Trading since 1999.
Competitors Leicester
This company ranks 1 among other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar) in Leicester.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 64,736 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2026-05-20
- Price paid, where recorded
- £950,000
- Where
- Stoke-On-Trent (1), Luton (1), Leicester (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF499009 | Stoke-On-Trent | Freehold | 2026-05-20 | £950,000 |
| BD359894 | Luton | Leasehold | 2024-11-06 | — |
| LT486479 | Leicester | Leasehold | 2016-12-07 | — |
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