LWC DRINKS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£138,728,692
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activities of the company are retailing and wholesaling wines, spirits and beers and the production of own brand products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2011-06-21
- Employees
- 1480 (2025 accounts · was 1498 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Lwc Drinks Ltd Greenside Way, Middleton, Manchester, England, M24 1SW
- Postcode
- M24 1SW
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-21
- Next due by
- 2027-07-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46342 Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages
Officers 3 current · 4 resigned
Group structure 5 subsidiaries
Controlled by LICENSED WHOLESALE COMPANY LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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H.T.WHITE & COMPANY,LIMITED Active - Proposal to Strike off
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MIDDLETON WHOLESALE LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 6
£1,101,998 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 6.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2021 (period to 2021-03-31) as part of the LICENSED WHOLESALE COMPANY LIMITED group statement.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z308690X (Tier 3), registered since 2012.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
6.8%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- lwc.co.uk
LWC Drinks is the UK’s largest independent drinks wholesaler of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LICENSED WHOLESALE COMPANY TRADING LIMITED | 2011-10-26 |
| HS 540 LIMITED | 2011-09-20 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 3 STAINBURN ROAD, OPENSHAW, MANCHESTER, M11 2ER | 2015-06-23 |
| 5TH FLOOR FREETRADE EXCHANGE 37 PETER STREET, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER, M2 5GB | 2011-09-23 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 66 similar companies in M
The largest employer among its local peers (1480 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2011.
Competitors Manchester
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages in Manchester.
The class of 2011
24%
of the 323 companies in this sector incorporated in 2011 are still active today; 71% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 33 titles
- Freehold
- 18
- Leasehold
- 15
- Most recent registration
- 2026-04-27
- Price paid, where recorded
- £41,429,202
- Where
- Staffordshire (4), East Sussex (3), West Yorkshire (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF268848 | Staffordshire | Freehold | 2026-04-27 | — |
| SF344389 | Staffordshire | Freehold | 2026-04-27 | — |
| SF351374 | Staffordshire | Freehold | 2026-04-27 | — |
| SF660165 | Staffordshire | Freehold | 2026-04-27 | — |
| MS712761 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2024-03-01 | — |
| ESX116094 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2024-02-14 | £1,218,879 |
| WA869319 | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Freehold | 2024-01-30 | £2,220,000 |
| WA874015 | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Freehold | 2024-01-30 | — |
| CE258596 | Stockton-On-Tees | Leasehold | 2023-11-15 | £500,000 |
| BM469213 | Buckinghamshire | Leasehold | 2023-08-23 | — |
| HW168065 | Herefordshire | Leasehold | 2023-08-08 | — |
| ESX403048 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2023-06-16 | £12,181,687 |
| WYK204443 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2023-05-31 | £2,026,942 |
| HP477524 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2023-02-22 | £3,700,000 |
| HP559374 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2023-02-22 | — |
| CH578234 | Halton | Leasehold | 2023-01-24 | — |
| CL253670 | Cornwall | Leasehold | 2023-01-24 | £792,248 |
| SYK405884 | South Yorkshire | Freehold | 2022-10-12 | £5,700,000 |
| TY414774 | Tyne And Wear | Freehold | 2022-03-28 | — |
| MAN358360 | Greater Manchester | Freehold | 2020-03-10 | — |
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