DAVID PLUCK (NORTH WEST) LIMITED
Company number 01477372 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
David Pluck (North West) Limited is a highly profitable, debt-free, and cash-rich business with a strong freehold asset base, making it an excellent credit proposition. The company has demonstrated impressive resilience and growth in a challenging sector, increasing pre-tax profits to £6.2m and maintaining a cash position of £5.03m against zero external debt. Approval is recommended; the only cautionary notes are the structural regulatory threats facing the high-street gambling sector and the high level of annual dividend extraction by the owners.
Shareholders' funds
£12,138,649
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review continued to be that of bookmakers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-02-05
- Employees
- 132 (2025 accounts · was 140 in 2024)
- Registered office
- C/O Dsg, Chartered Accountants Castle Chambers, 43 Castle Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L2 9TL
- Postcode
- L2 9TL
- Capital
- 190 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2026-01-14
- Next due by
- 2027-01-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 92000 Gambling and betting activities
Officers 3 current · 3 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 — Z4640141 (Tier 2), registered since 2000.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| DAVID PLUCK (WIDNES) LIMITED | 2002-10-17 |
| DAVE PLUCK (RACING) LIMITED | 1982-06-21 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| C/O DUNCAN SHEARD GLASS CASTLE CHAMBERS, 43 CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL, L2 9TL, UNITED KINGDOM | 2018-07-18 |
| CASTLE CHAMBERS 43 CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL, L2 9TL | 2016-09-15 |
| 343 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH42 8PE | 2009-11-18 |
| 127 STORETON ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, MERSEYSIDE L42 9PQ | 2005-12-06 |
| 50 BEBINGTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, MERSEYSIDE | 1991-07-16 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 8 similar companies in L
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (132 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1980.
Competitors
This company ranks 1 among similar companies in L.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 43 titles
- Freehold
- 9
- Leasehold
- 34
- Most recent registration
- 2025-06-20
- Price paid, where recorded
- £1,135,000
- Where
- Merseyside (21), Greater Manchester (13), Halton (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS394060 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2025-06-20 | £496,750 |
| MAN443459 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2024-08-15 | — |
| CH1734 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2023-10-17 | £85,000 |
| CH717784 | Halton | Leasehold | 2022-10-05 | — |
| MS693462 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2021-11-23 | — |
| CH708543 | Warrington | Leasehold | 2021-11-04 | — |
| MS318952 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2021-07-13 | £27,250 |
| LAN230625 | Blackburn With Darwen | Leasehold | 2019-12-18 | — |
| LAN216148 | Lancashire | Leasehold | 2019-01-29 | — |
| MS647891 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2017-09-01 | — |
| MAN271642 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2017-03-28 | £70,000 |
| MS637927 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2016-11-15 | — |
| LAN171424 | Lancashire | Leasehold | 2015-11-11 | — |
| MAN224259 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2014-03-25 | — |
| MS609758 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2014-02-12 | — |
| GM208746 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2013-11-21 | — |
| MS603866 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2013-07-11 | — |
| MS597328 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2012-10-26 | — |
| MS590504 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2012-01-19 | — |
| MS583371 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2011-04-07 | — |
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