DUNELM GROUP PLC

Shareholders of Dunelm Group plc

Dunelm Group plc is a company whose ordinary shares are admitted to trading on a UK regulated market, so its full share register is not published. What is public is the set of notifiable interests disclosed under DTR 5 and reproduced in the annual report. At 28 June 2025 the company had been notified of seven such interests in its issued share capital.

The largest is the founding family. Sir Will Adderley was notified as holding 55,371,779 ordinary shares, 27.38% of share capital — a figure that includes 1,967,250 shares held by the Stoneygate Trust and 172,750 shares held by the Paddocks Discretionary Trust, in which he is deemed to hold a legal interest as a trustee. Lady Nadine Adderley was notified at 11,000,000 shares (5.41%) and Jean Adderley at 9,968,500 shares (4.92%). Those three disclosures together account for 76,340,279 ordinary shares, 37.71% on the same disclosed basis.

The four disclosed institutional interests are JP Morgan Asset Management Holdings Inc with 10,369,851 shares (5.13%), Jupiter Fund Management PLC with 10,044,063 (4.95%), Royal London Asset Management Limited with 9,907,809 (4.91%) and abrdn plc with 9,565,468 (4.74%).

At 28 June 2025 the company’s capital comprised 203,426,835 fully paid ordinary shares of 1p each, of which 2,144,012 were held in treasury and carry no voting or dividend rights. There is a single class of ordinary shares, one vote per share on a poll, and no special voting rights attach to any share.

A Relationship Agreement dated 2 October 2006 between the Company and Jean Adderley, Bill Adderley and Sir Will Adderley applies for as long as they are entitled, individually or together, to exercise or control 30% or more of the votes at general meetings. It requires dealings with the group to be at arm’s length and on a normal commercial basis, and restricts amendments to the Articles that would undermine it. WA Capital Limited and Lady Nadine Adderley, to whom Sir Will Adderley transferred shares by way of gift, subsequently became parties to it, and it was amended in July 2014 to reflect changes to the UK Listing Rules.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No ultimate beneficial owner of Dunelm Group plc is recorded on a public register, and the reason is a statutory exemption rather than an absence of information. The Companies House persons-with-significant-control page for 04708277 carries the notice: “From 23 March 2018 the company is exempt from the requirement to obtain information of its PSC because it has voting shares admitted to trading on a UK regulated market.” The empty PSC register is the consequence of that exemption; it is not evidence that nobody holds significant influence or control.

The largest disclosed interest, Sir Will Adderley’s 27.38%, is above the 25% level that would otherwise engage the PSC conditions. It is nevertheless a DTR 5 notification of an interest in shares, correct at the date it was given, and not a determination of beneficial ownership. No ownership chain was available from which an effective beneficial percentage could be calculated, so none is published here.

Data availability

Major shareholders only. The United Kingdom publishes notifiable interests above the DTR 5 thresholds and a listed company’s PSC register is closed by statutory exemption, so no complete shareholder list or verified UBO exists on the public record for this company. The figures above were correct at the date of each notification and are likely to have changed since; notification of a change is not required until the next threshold is crossed. The company states that it received no notifications between 28 June 2025 and 9 September 2025, and its own major-shareholders disclosure page still carried the same 28 June 2025 table when retrieved on 29 September 2026.

The baseline provider data on this page is not a description of Dunelm’s ownership and should not be read as one. The stored gd_shareholders field holds ten rows, all of them pooled investment funds, whose quantities total 6,448,550 shares — 3.2% of the 203,426,835 shares in issue at 28 June 2025. The percentage on each row is that row’s share of those ten rows, not of the company: the largest, stored as 23.34%, is 1,505,230 shares, or 0.74% of the shares in issue, an overstatement of roughly 31 times. None of the seven actually notified holders appears in the stored rows. Every percentage in this section is taken from the company’s own filed disclosure instead.

Sources

• Dunelm Group plc, Annual Report and Accounts 2025, Directors’ report, Substantial shareholders and Shareholder and voting rights — https://corporate.dunelm.com/media/0oskygbo/annual_report-2025.pdf. Approved by the Board 9 September 2025; published 9 October 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Dunelm Group plc, Major shareholders disclosure — https://corporate.dunelm.com/about-us/governance/other-disclosures/major-shareholders/. Position stated as at 28 June 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Companies House, persons with significant control, DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04708277/persons-with-significant-control. Exemption effective 23 March 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Companies House, company overview, DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04708277. Retrieved 29 September 2026.

Directors and officers of Dunelm Group plc

Companies House lists 34 officer appointments for DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277), of which 23 have ended. Eleven are current: ten directors and one company secretary, all using the registered office in Syston, Leicester as their correspondence address.

The current legal roles on the register are Director and Secretary. The board positions behind them, as published by the company, are Chair (Alison Brittain, on the board since September 2022 and Chair since January 2023), Deputy Chair (Sir Will Adderley, a director since 6 April 2003), Chief Executive Officer (Clodagh Moriarty, appointed 1 October 2025), Chief Financial Officer (Karen Witts, appointed 9 June 2022) and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director (Ian Bull, appointed 10 July 2019). The remaining non-executive directors are Marion Sears (22 July 2004, also designated non-executive director for colleague matters), Vijay Talwar (1 October 2021), Ajay Kavan and Daniel Taylor (both 1 March 2024) and Katharine Poulter (6 May 2025). Luisa Wright has been Company Secretary since 1 December 2022 and is also Group General Counsel.

Nationality is recorded by Companies House for each current director: British for Sir William Adderley, Alison Brittain, Ian Bull, Katharine Poulter, Marion Sears, Daniel Taylor and Karen Witts; Indian for Ajay Kavan; Irish for Clodagh Moriarty; and American for Vijay Talwar. Place of residence is a separate register field and is recorded as the United Kingdom or England for every current director except Vijay Talwar, whose place of residence is recorded as the Netherlands. The register data was read on 29 September 2026.

Recent officer changes

• Nicholas Guy Wilkinson, Director, appointed 1 February 2018, resigned 30 September 2025 (Companies House officer record).
• Clodagh Moriarty, Director, appointed 1 October 2025 (Companies House officer record; the company publishes her role as Chief Executive Officer).
• Katharine Jayne Poulter, Director, appointed 6 May 2025 (Companies House officer record; the company publishes her role as independent Non-Executive Director).

Data availability

Full. The United Kingdom register publishes current and former appointments with appointment and resignation dates, together with nationality, month and year of birth, place of residence and a service address; residential addresses are not public. Occupation is not shown for these appointments, so it is reported as not disclosed, and the register records only the legal role of Director or Secretary, never the board title, which is why the board positions above are taken from the company’s own published board list.

The baseline provider data for this page is incomplete. It stores 31 of the 34 appointment records held by Companies House: the two appointments of David Anthony Stead (Secretary from 15 September 2003 to 17 November 2011 and Director from 15 September 2003 to 31 December 2015) and Sir Will Adderley’s short first appointment as Secretary in 2003 are all absent. The stored rows also carry no nationality at all, although Companies House publishes it for every director here, and they reduce every job title to Director or Company Secretary. The stored record correctly distinguishes William Adderley, a director from 6 April 2003 to 29 February 2008, from Sir William Lester Adderley, who remains in office.

Sources

• Companies House, officers of DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04708277/officers. Register content as filed. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Companies House, filing history of DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04708277/filing-history. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Dunelm Group plc, Leadership (Board) — https://corporate.dunelm.com/about-us/leadership/. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Dunelm Group plc, Annual Report and Accounts 2025, Governance report — https://corporate.dunelm.com/media/0oskygbo/annual_report-2025.pdf. Approved 9 September 2025; published 9 October 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.

Group structure of Dunelm Group plc

Dunelm Group plc is the ultimate parent of the Dunelm group and its own annual report identifies it as the Parent Company; no entity above it is disclosed in the register or in the filed accounts. Note C4 to the parent company financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 28 June 2025 lists twelve subsidiaries, every one of them held as to 100% of ordinary shares.

The structure is a single chain rather than a flat set of holdings. Dunelm Limited (05045977) is the only subsidiary held directly by Dunelm Group plc; the annual report marks each of the other eleven as having its share capital held by a subsidiary undertaking, making them indirect subsidiaries. Three jurisdictions are represented: England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The trading entity in the United Kingdom is Dunelm (Soft Furnishings) Ltd (02129238), on the register since 8 May 1987 and formerly named DUNELM SOFT-FURNISHINGS LIMITED. Dunelm Estates Limited, Zoncolan Limited and Globe Online Limited are described in the accounts as dormant, and Fogarty Holdings Limited and Dunelm (Soft Furnishings) Londonderry Ltd as non-trading, although all five are shown as Active on the register.

Verified corporate relationships

The relationship and the 100% holding for every row come from note C4 to the parent company accounts at 28 June 2025. Registration numbers, names and register status for the seven United Kingdom entities were confirmed individually at Companies House on 29 September 2026.

Recent structural changes

• Acquisition of Homefocus Group Limited, Republic of Ireland. The company reported in its interim results of 11 February 2025 that in November 2024 the group acquired a 100% shareholding in Home Focus Group, a homewares textiles retailer in Ireland trading as Home Focus at Hickey’s, with 13 stores. Homefocus Group Limited, Hickey’s & Co Limited and Fashion Fabric Limited appear in the subsidiary list at 28 June 2025.
• Irish holding and intellectual-property companies. Dunelm (Soft Furnishings) Holdings Limited and Dunelm IP (Ireland) Limited also appear in the subsidiary list at 28 June 2025, the first described as a retailer of soft furnishings and the second as holding IP assets.
• The acquisition of the Designers Guild brand and design archive, completed in April 2025, was a purchase of assets from Designers Guild Limited followed by a licence back to that business. It did not add a legal entity to the group, and Designers Guild Limited is not a subsidiary.

Data availability

Full for the United Kingdom and partial for the Republic of Ireland. The audited annual report gives the complete subsidiary list with the ownership percentage and the direct or indirect nature of each holding, and every United Kingdom entity was verified individually against Companies House. The Irish register at core.cro.ie refused automated access, so the registration numbers and register status of the five Irish subsidiaries could not be confirmed and are shown as not verified rather than taken from an unofficial source. The subsidiary list is stated at 28 June 2025; the FY26 annual report had not been published when this page was written.

The baseline provider group tree agrees with the audited list on every entity and on the shape of the chain, which is unusual in this dataset. Two stored names differ from the filed names: the tree carries Hickey and Company Limited where the accounts say Hickey’s & Co Limited, and Fashion Fabrics Limited where the accounts say Fashion Fabric Limited. The tree’s identifier fields for the Irish entities were not used here.

Sources

• Dunelm Group plc, Annual Report and Accounts 2025, note C4 Investments in subsidiary undertakings — https://corporate.dunelm.com/media/0oskygbo/annual_report-2025.pdf. Approved 9 September 2025; published 9 October 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Dunelm Group plc, Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 28 December 2024 — https://corporate.dunelm.com/media/hpsjrxdk/dunelm-fy25-interim-results-final-for-rns.pdf. Published 11 February 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Companies House, company records for 05045977, 02129238, 04708269, 07258174, 04292372, 10489789 and NI680970 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05045977 and the equivalent paths for each number. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
• Companies House, company overview, DUNELM GROUP PLC (04708277) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04708277. Retrieved 29 September 2026.