WILLIAMS & HILL LIMITED
Company number 04484125 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Williams & Hill occupies a strong position as a specialist fine art logistics provider, delivering margins (65% gross, 14.5% net) that dramatically exceed general freight sector norms and sit at the top end of even premium niche operators. While FY2025 revenue contracted 6.4% in line with broader art market softening, management's focus on margin improvement yielded a 155 basis point net margin expansion, with net assets growing 24.5% even after a £1.09M dividend payment. The company's balance sheet strength, multimodal capability, and two-decade track record provide a durable competitive moat, though revenue recovery and market ceiling constraints remain the key watchpoints for sustained growth.
Shareholders' funds
£4,600,221
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-07-12
- Employees
- 70 (2025 accounts · was 77 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 9 Space Waye, Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 0TH
- Postcode
- TW14 0TH
- Capital
- 12,307 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-12
- Next due by
- 2027-07-26
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49410 Freight transport by road
- 50200 Sea and coastal freight water transport
- 51210 Freight air transport
Officers 5 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by WILLIAMS AND HILL GROUP LTD — since 2016-07-26
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB162563 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMS & HILL FORWARDING LIMITED | 2025-04-15 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| WESTGATE 2 AVIA PARK, STAINES ROAD, BEDFONT, MIDDLESEX, TW14 8RS | 2011-08-31 |
| LANGWOOD HOUSE, 63-81 HIGH STREET, RICKMANSWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE WD3 1EQ | 2004-01-22 |
| 1ST FLOOR, 14-18 CITY ROAD, CARDIFF, CF24 3DL | 2002-08-01 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 525 similar companies in TW
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (70 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2002.
No.6 of the largest freight transport by road companies in Hounslow →
Competitors Hounslow
This company ranks 6 among freight transport by road in Hounslow.
The class of 2002
37%
of the 1,042 companies in this sector incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 7 titles
- Leasehold
- 7
- Most recent registration
- 2022-07-06
- Where
- Greater London (7)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGL569765 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2022-07-06 | — |
| AGL430275 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-12-08 | — |
| AGL430228 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-12-07 | — |
| AGL353595 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2015-09-03 | — |
| AGL353596 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2015-09-03 | — |
| AGL296193 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2013-11-01 | — |
| AGL240609 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2011-09-22 | — |
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