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About Works co uk
Its shares trade on LSE under the ticker WRKS.L. It has been listed since 19 July 2018. In the fiscal year to 30 April 2026, it reported revenue of £260.0m and net income of £1.4m. At that date it held total assets of £130.7m and shareholders' equity of £17.3m.
TheWorks.co.uk Plc is a holding company, which engages in the provision of gifts, art, craft, stationery, toys, and books as a discount retailer. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, Warwickshire. The company went IPO on 2018-07-19. The Company’s product categories include Kids; Arts, Crafts and Hobbies; Stationery; and Family gifts. The Kids category provides kids’ books alongside a wide range of toys, jigsaws and games with an emphasis on character licenses. Its Arts, Crafts and Hobbies category comprises a wide selection of paints, brushes, art, sets, paper, canvas and craft kits that cater for the needs of beginners to experts and it also provides traditional wooden puzzles, jigsaws and family games, a selection of puzzle books plus a smaller selection of gardening, sport and transport titles. The Stationery category provides fashion notebooks, greeting cards, writing sets, storage boxes and address books under its brand name Paper Place. Its Family gifts category provides adult books, including best-selling fiction paperback.
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Company facts
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Specialty Retail
- Listed since
- 19 Jul 2018
- Employees
- 3,849
- Website
- theworksplc.co.uk ↗
Leadership
Pay as last reported
- Mr. Stephen BellamyNon-Executive Chairman of the Board£83,000
- Mr. Gavin PeckChief Executive Officer, Executive Director, since 2018£501,000
- Ms. Rosie FordhamChief Financial Officer, Executive Director, since 2023£320,000
- Mr. Simon HathwayIndependent Non-Executive Director£25,000
- Mr. Harry MorleySenior Independent Non-Executive Director£59,000
- Mr. Nicholas WhartonSenior Independent Non-Executive Director
- Mr. Ben UllmannInvestor Relations, since 2021
Environmental, social and governance
Scores out of 100, from our data supplier
- Overall
- 41
- Environment
- 55
- Social
- 29
- Governance
- 40
- Direct emissions (scope 1)
- 100.39 t
- Energy emissions (scope 2)
- 2,683.42 t
- Value chain emissions (scope 3)
- 35,213.81 t
- Women in the workforce
- 74%
- Carbon reduction policy
- No
- Human rights policy
- Yes
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