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UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED

#00950138 · Active · Incorporated 1969-03-18 (57y 2m) · Last filing 2025-12-22 (5mo ago)
Consumer Discretionary · SIC 96090 · S Other Service Activities · Full accounts

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2027-01-04 (in 8mo)

Last made up 2025-12-21

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£8M

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£120M

-15.9% vs 2023

Employees

0

Average over period

Profit before tax

-£29M

+22% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 3 times since incorporation

  1. UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED 1999-03-29 → present
  2. POLYGRAM RECORD OPERATIONS LIMITED 1979-12-31 → 1999-03-29
  3. POLYGRAM RECORD SERVICES LIMITED 1969-03-18 → 1979-12-31
  4. PHONODISC LIMITED 1969-03-18 → 1979-12-31

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £672,625,000£663,360,000
Operating profit £49,880,000£53,188,000
Profit before tax -£36,636,000-£28,589,000
Net profit -£34,870,000-£22,723,000
Cash £0£7,628,000
Total assets less current liabilities £194,936,000£171,793,000
Net assets £142,472,000£119,749,000
Equity £142,472,000£119,749,000
Average employees 00
Wages ——

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Ratios

Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest

Ratio Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 7.4%8.0%
Net margin -5.2%-3.4%
Return on capital employed 25.6%31.0%
Current ratio 1.01x1.00x
Interest cover 0.36x0.29x

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Ernst & Young LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis as the company has received confirmation from Universal Music Group N.V., the company's ultimate parent undertaking, of its intention to continue to provide financial and other support to the extent necessary to enable the company to continue to pay its liabilities as and when they become due for a period to 31 December 2026.”

Group structure

  1. UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED · parent
    1. Universal Music (WT) Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    2. Turnfirst Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    3. Composed Technology International Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    4. Naughty Records Limited 51% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    5. Vice Versa Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    6. Universal Music (CR) Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    7. RG2016 Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    8. Stiff Records Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    9. ZTT Records Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
    10. All Around The World Limited 100% · UK · Holding company
    11. AATW Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
    12. All Around The World Productions Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    13. All Around The World Reproductions Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
    14. All Around The World TV Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
    15. Clubland Productions Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
    16. Ultimate...... Hits Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
    17. Penny Street TV Limited 100% · UK · Television broadcasting
    18. TV Two Limited 100% · UK · Online advertising
    19. One Mode Productions Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    20. Hyperion Records Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    21. Outdustry Records Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    22. Universal (DJ) Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    23. S Club Entertainment Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    24. Real World Recordings Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    25. Jard Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music
    26. Universal Music (D1) Limited 100% · UK · Marketing and distribution of recorded music

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

4 active · 21 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
ABIOYE, Abolanle Secretary 2004-06-01 — British
BARKER, Adam Martin Director 2011-08-01 Mar 1968 British
SHARPE, David Richard James Director 2012-01-20 Mar 1967 Irish
STAINER, Dickon Christopher Director 2024-11-26 Sep 1967 British
Show 21 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
HOWLE, Michael Anthony Secretary — 2004-05-31
AMES, Roger Director — 1996-07-01
BROWN, Kevin Thomas Director 2013-03-01 2016-02-28
BRYANT, David Thomas Director 2003-08-01 2012-01-19
CARRINGTON, Nicholas John Director — 1995-06-02
CASTELL, Greg Director 2003-03-06 2005-05-12
CONSTANT, Richard Michael Director 2002-12-23 2017-07-28
ELLIS, Neville Clive Director 1998-08-31 1999-03-31
FISHER, Thomas Clive Director 1996-07-01 2011-08-01
GRAINGE, Lucian Charles Director 2001-07-01 2008-06-26
HARTLEY, Nicholas Bruce Director 1996-01-24 1998-08-31
HENNY, Marinus Nicolaas Director 2002-12-23 2010-11-19
JOSEPH, David Spencer Director 2008-06-26 2024-09-30
KENNEDY, John Patrick Director 1996-07-01 2001-07-01
MIRON, Stephen Gabriel Director 2013-02-01 2016-01-31
OBERSTEIN, Maurice Louis Director — 1993-12-13
PYE, Anthony Greig Director — 1999-02-05
RIGG, Gillian Nanette Director — 1996-07-01
SWATTON, Malcolm John Director 2002-05-01 2016-03-10
THOMPSON, Peter Duncan Director 1999-03-31 2004-07-31
UNIVERSAL MUSIC UK LIMITED Corporate Director — 2014-09-24

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Universal Music Leisure Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 213 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-12-22 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-08-21 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-12-26 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-11-27 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-10-03 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-08-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-01-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-08-16 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-12-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-10-04 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-12-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-10-02 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-01-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-06-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-01-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-05-28 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-01-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2018-09-26 AD04 address Move registers to registered office company with new address PDF
2018-08-23 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2018-08-23 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

Year-on-year

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

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