PALMER & HOWELLS LTD.
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Shareholders' funds
£300,276
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-12-31
- Employees
- 119 (2025 accounts · was 194 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Teme House, Whittington, Worcester, United Kingdom, WR5 2RY
- Postcode
- WR5 2RY
- Capital
- 5,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- 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
- 2025-11-13
- Next due by
- 2026-11-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 56210 Event catering activities
Officers 3 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by HC 1278 LIMITED — since 2017-06-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB044764 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
26.7%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2022/23
Contact details
- Website
- palmerhowells.co.uk
Created with purpose & heart We are a company that cares. Palmer & Howells is still one of a few smaller independent caterers who can offer valuable time and focus to personally support our contracts with the detailed attention they deserve. We are not a ‘one size fits all’ company, and
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| COTSWOLD CATERING & MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES LIMITED | 2003-08-12 |
| PHOENIX CATERING & MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED | 1999-04-08 |
| PALMER & HOWELLS CATERING AND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATESLIMITED | 1999-03-24 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 18 NORTH COURT, THE COURTYARD, WOODLAND, BRADLEY STOKE, BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BS32 4NQ, UNITED KINGDOM | 2018-02-06 |
| 18 NORTH COURT THE COURTYARD, WOODLANDS BRADLEY, STOKE, BRISTOL, BS32 4NQ | 2017-02-17 |
| THE ANNEXE 30 BATH ROAD, STONEHOUSE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE GL10 2JA | 2003-08-14 |
| 6 HEXHAM CLOSE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8LT | 1999-06-10 |
| 2 CATHEDRAL ROAD, CARDIFF, CF1 9RZ | 1999-01-06 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 51 similar companies in WR
2nd largest employer among its local peers (119 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1998.
No.3 of the largest event catering activities companies in Worcester →
Competitors Worcester
This company ranks 3 among event catering activities in Worcester.
The class of 1998
43%
of the 55,900 companies incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.