THE KAY GROUP (UK) LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£46,987,121
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of retailing automotive fuel and convenience store operation.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1985-03-08
- Employees
- 327 (2025 accounts · was 314 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Intack Self Drive The Canal Whare, Lower Audley, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 1DG
- Postcode
- BB1 1DG
- Capital
- 110 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 6 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-10
- Next due by
- 2026-12-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47300 Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores
Officers 8 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
Controlled by THE KAY GROUP (UK HOLDINGS) LTD — since 2016-05-01
-
D.KITCHEN LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2020 (period to 2020-10-31) as part of the THE KAY GROUP (UK HOLDINGS) LTD 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 — Z5731575 (Tier 3), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
0%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · in the top 10% for parity
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.thekaygroup.co.uk
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| KAY KEN LIMITED | 2012-05-21 |
| EAST LANCASHIRE MOTOR TRADE CONSULTANTS LIMITED | 2012-05-21 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SUMNER HOUSE, ST THOMASS ROAD, CHORLEY, LANCASHIRE PR7 1HP | 2004-08-26 |
| 52 BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3JP | 2001-03-29 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 14 similar companies in BB
The largest employer among its local peers (327 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1985.
Competitors Blackburn
This company ranks 1 among retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores in Blackburn.
The class of 1985
49%
of the 15,386 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 17 titles
- Freehold
- 14
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2025-02-19
- Price paid, where recorded
- £4,587,985
- Where
- Lancashire (3), Flintshire (2), Blackburn With Darwen (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CYM550811 | Flintshire | Freehold | 2025-02-19 | £1,750,000 |
| LA309034 | Blackburn With Darwen | Freehold | 2023-02-02 | — |
| CH714492 | Cheshire West And Chester | Freehold | 2022-06-01 | £1,077,985 |
| SF678514 | Stoke-On-Trent | Freehold | 2022-05-26 | — |
| TY586273 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2022-01-11 | — |
| SYK687742 | South Yorkshire | Freehold | 2021-02-15 | £10,000 |
| TY578286 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2021-01-12 | — |
| CYM798991 | Flintshire | Leasehold | 2020-03-12 | — |
| CH543865 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2019-12-18 | — |
| SYK675131 | South Yorkshire | Freehold | 2019-10-01 | — |
| NT535741 | Nottinghamshire | Freehold | 2018-01-24 | £850,000 |
| SF86415 | Stoke-On-Trent | Freehold | 2014-11-28 | — |
| YY19620 | West Yorkshire | Freehold | 2013-06-12 | £900,000 |
| LA454871 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2012-10-15 | — |
| LA700566 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2012-10-15 | — |
| LA704588 | Lancashire | Freehold | 2012-10-15 | — |
| LA836324 | Blackburn With Darwen | Freehold | 1999-02-03 | — |
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