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Sam Allcock

Editor of Cap News, and editorially responsible for everything published on it.

Sam Allcock

Editor · Cheshire, United Kingdom

Sam Allcock is a digital publisher with more than two decades in UK media and marketing. He founded and later sold the agencies Custard and PR Fire, and now publishes a group of UK data and trade titles through Domain Farm Ltd. He is not an accountant, an insolvency practitioner or a financial adviser, and nothing on this site is advice.

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What he is responsible for, and what he is not

Cap News publishes a report on every working day's company filings. Those reports are written by a pipeline, not typed by a person: it downloads the Companies House accounts file each morning, reads the tagged figures out of every filing, and writes the day's report from them. You will not find a human byline on one, because there was not one.

What Sam is responsible for is everything else: what this site counts, how it says it, what it refuses to say, and correcting it when it is wrong. The method sets out the rules the pipeline follows, including the two parsing bugs caught before launch that would have produced confident wrong numbers.

He is not an accountant, an insolvency practitioner or a financial adviser. Nothing on this site is advice, and no figure here should be used to judge whether a company is solvent. See the disclaimer.

Background

Editor, Cap News
Founder of PR Fire and Custard, both built and sold
20+ years in UK media, PR and digital marketing

Recent

Daily filings Used car: 38% of accounts published on 24 October in deficit, against 22% usually Daily filings Other service activities: 34% of accounts published on 23 October in deficit, against 17% usually Daily filings Online retail: 34% of accounts published on 22 October in deficit, against 26% usually Daily filings Holiday accommodation: 9% of accounts published on 21 October in deficit, against 28% usually Daily filings Other manufacturing: 49% of accounts published on 20 October in deficit, against 15% usually Daily filings 9,287 company accounts published on 17 October, a steady day with 17% in deficit Daily filings Property trading: 36% of accounts published on 16 October in deficit, against 29% usually Daily filings Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food: 38% of accounts published on 15 October in deficit, against 18% usually

Corrections. If something here is wrong, write to editor@capnews.co.uk. Corrections are checked against the filing and, where we got it wrong, the change is made and said out loud.