G. COLLINS & SONS LIMITED
Company number 03651851 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
G. Collins & Sons is a financially robust, family-owned regional jeweller operating well above typical independent sector benchmarks in terms of revenue (£27.2m), margins (15.5% operating), and balance sheet strength (net assets £17.1m, current ratio 5.68x). However, FY25 revealed margin compression – gross margin declined ~2pp and operating profit fell 20% despite 6% revenue growth, driven by a 23% increase in administrative expenses likely linked to strategic renovation investment. The company's fortress balance sheet and premium market positioning provide significant resilience, but restoring margin progression will be critical to sustaining its above-sector returns in an environment of continued cost inflation and precious metal price volatility.
Shareholders' funds
£17,108,232
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of retail jewellers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-10-19
- Employees
- 39 (2025 accounts · was 38 in 2024)
- Registered office
- First Floor 1 Des Roches Square, Witan Way, Witney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX28 4BE
- Postcode
- OX28 4BE
- Capital
- 1,404 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-04
- Next due by
- 2026-09-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5365469 (Tier 2), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 1
£5,000 in registered political donations since 2015.
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Conservative and Unionist Party
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| DRAWLANE LIMITED | 1998-12-08 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| HURST HOUSE, HIGH STREET RIPLEY, WOKING, SURREY, GU23 6AY | 2009-11-03 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1999-01-28 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,175 similar companies in OX
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (39 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1998.
Competitors Oxford
This company ranks 3 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Oxford.
The class of 1998
29%
of the 4,096 companies in this sector incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 69% 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
- 2025-06-18
- Where
- Kent (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT180988 | Kent | Leasehold | 2025-06-18 | — |
| TT17472 | Kent | Leasehold | 2013-09-06 | — |
| K879492 | Kent | Freehold | 2004-12-17 | — |
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