WHITTARD TRADING LIMITED
Company number 06753147 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Whittard Trading Limited is operationally healthy with strong and consistent revenue growth (36% over four years), but suffers from a chronically weakened balance sheet with negative net assets of £8.30M. The business is technically insolvent and reliant on parent company support, though it is steadily recovering — the net asset deficit has improved by approximately £3.47M over the same period. A capital injection from the parent company and continued profit retention are essential to restore full financial health and reduce vulnerability to external shocks.
Shareholders' funds
-£5,138,389
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-27
What it does
The principal activity of the company is to source and sell the highest quality tea, coffee and hot chocolate from around the world together with everything that enriches the experience of consuming them. We aim to leverage 139 years of British heritage to build a brand through developing enduring relationships with our customers. Our products are affordable luxuries that are perfect as self-treats or as gifts. Routes to market include directly operated UK stores, a global ecommerce platform, international franchise stores and worldwide wholesale.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2008-11-19
- Employees
- 528 (2025 accounts · was 471 in 2024)
- Registered office
- First Floor West 25 Western Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, England, OX14 4SH
- Postcode
- OX14 4SH
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-27
- Next due by
- 2027-09-26
- Financial year end
- 26 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-19
- Next due by
- 2026-12-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47190 Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
Officers 2 current · 19 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by HAMSARD 3145 LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2081156 (Tier 3), registered since 2010.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
91.3%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the bottom 10% for parity
Contact details
- Website
- whittard.co.uk
- Phone
- +44 1993893774, +44 1993223733, 03031231113
Taste the finest Tea, Coffee and Hot Chocolate. Explore our range of gifts and speciality blends.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HAMSARD 3146 LIMITED | 2009-07-03 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| HAMMONDS LLP (REF : SDW) RUTLAND HOUSE, 148 EDMUND STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B3 2JR | 2009-01-23 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 23/01/2009 FROM, HAMMONDS LLP (REF : SDW) RUTLAND HOUSE, 148 EDMUND STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B3 2JR | 2009-01-23 |
Among its peers
The largest employer
of 93 similar companies in OX, with 528 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Oxford
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5. BMEX LIMITED
This company ranks 131 among other retail sale in non-specialised stores in Oxford.
The class of 2008
23%
of the 869 companies in this sector incorporated in 2008 are still active today; 74% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 26 titles
- Leasehold
- 26
- Most recent registration
- 2025-08-06
- Where
- Greater London (9), Oxfordshire (3), Tyne And Wear (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB41240 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2025-08-06 | — |
| NT593441 | City Of Nottingham | Leasehold | 2024-11-05 | — |
| ON390445 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2024-11-05 | — |
| ON371332 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2022-02-25 | — |
| AGL548479 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2021-10-28 | — |
| AGL548480 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2021-10-28 | — |
| ST365670 | Bath And North East Somerset | Leasehold | 2021-06-08 | — |
| CB450174 | Cambridgeshire | Leasehold | 2020-01-28 | — |
| TY558988 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2018-08-29 | — |
| BGL143216 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-08-06 | — |
| AGL447983 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-07-04 | — |
| ESX375381 | Brighton And Hove | Leasehold | 2016-06-21 | — |
| MM64706 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2016-01-25 | — |
| MM61507 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2015-11-18 | — |
| MAN250949 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2015-07-02 | — |
| NGL948210 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2015-01-09 | — |
| ON315183 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2014-10-20 | — |
| BGL99773 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2013-09-26 | — |
| NYK405459 | York | Leasehold | 2013-04-15 | — |
| NGL929061 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2012-09-18 | — |
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