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Company description
DAVID COVER AND SON LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 6 July 1945; registered for 81 years; registered office reported in CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX. Its primary declared activity is 16100 · Sawmilling and planing of wood, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported profit after tax −£3,681,288, net assets £44,333,594, average employees 5. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 waste registration. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- DAVID COVER AND SON LIMITED
- Company number
- 00396804
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 36 total · 5 outstanding · 31 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
25 October 2025Next statement due
8 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit before tax
- −£4,051,532
- Profit after tax
- −£3,681,288
- Fixed assets
- £48,004,562
- Net assets
- £44,333,594
- Current assets
- £26,786,328
- Current liabilities
- £8,947,165
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £65,843,725
- Cash at bank
- £369,478
- Equity
- £44,333,594
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Filed
- 10 December 2024
- Shortest standard term
- Not supplied
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Not supplied
- Supply-chain finance
- Not supplied
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- No
- Payments made
- No
- Supplier-list charging policy
- Not supplied
- Supplier-list charges made
- Not supplied
Earlier payment reports (10 shown)
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 39.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 43.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
DAVID COVER AND SON LIMITED
LEI 21380082BPLN9CVKDL91 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 6 July 1945
- Initial LEI registration
- 7 January 2016
- LEI last updated
- 24 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 7 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29
- Legal address
- SUSSEX HOUSE, QUARRY LANE, CHICHESTER, PO19 8PE, GB
- Headquarters address
- SUSSEX HOUSE, QUARRY LANE, CHICHESTER, PO19 8PE, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 21380082BPLN9CVKDL91 to LEI 2138008NMSQIGO5BHV33
- Related legal entity
- J.H.& F.W.GREEN LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 10 October 2024
- Last updated
- 24 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 7 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2023-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2023-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00; Units: PERCENTAGE
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 21380082BPLN9CVKDL91 to LEI 2138008NMSQIGO5BHV33
- Related legal entity
- J.H.& F.W.GREEN LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 10 October 2024
- Last updated
- 24 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 7 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2023-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2023-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00; Units: PERCENTAGE
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- DAVID COVER AND SON LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 31 December 2025
- Sectors
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Not reported as covered
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 6 May 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
David Cover and Son Limited
Registration Z4742946
- Registered from
- 6 November 2001
- Current end date
- 5 November 2026
- Trading names
- NYEs Building Supplies
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Jh & Fw Green Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 148350
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Jh And Fw Green Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 14 May 2021
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials
Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.