D&B SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-15 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-01
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-32.2% vs 2022
Net assets
-£2M
-28,617.7% vs 2022
Employees
254
+19.8% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£1M
-152.4% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- D&B SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED 2023-09-26 → present
- WHITE LIGHT LIMITED 2005-05-18 → 2023-09-26
- WHITE LIGHT (ELECTRICS) LIMITED 1971-11-18 → 2005-05-18
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £37,364,836 | £43,954,640 | |
| Operating profit | £2,338,099 | -£1,288,115 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,037,593 | -£1,068,627 | |
| Net profit | £3,014,506 | -£2,128,870 | |
| Cash | £1,504,963 | £1,021,076 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,054,705 | -£883,560 | |
| Net assets | £7,439 | -£2,121,431 | |
| Equity | £7,439 | -£2,121,431 | |
| Average employees | 212 | 254 | |
| Wages | £8,438,956 | £11,808,724 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.3% | -2.9% | |
| Net margin | 8.1% | -4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 76.5% | 145.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.67x | 0.50x | |
| Interest cover | 7.65x | -2.66x |
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
- CLA Evelyn Partners Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. ... As a result the Directors are satisfied that the Company has sufficient working capital to settle its liabilities as they fall due, and accordingly continue to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- D&B SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED · parent
- White Light (Macau) Limited 96%
Significant events
- “A major project the business undertook during this financial period was to bring all the individual legal trading entities together into d&b solutions UK Limited (project referred to as "One Trading Entity").”
- “Turnover grew significantly due to the One Trading Entity exercise in October 2023, where all revenue from all brands including White Light, SFL and ProAV went through d&b solutions UK Limited.”
- “After the acquisition of Sound Foundation Limited Group (including Production:AV Limited) and White Light Limited, the operations of these legal entities have effectively been merged and on 1 October 2023 a single company was established in the UK (as a result of the project One Trading Entity). The Business of Sound Foundation Limited and Production:AV Limited was transferred to d&b solutions UK Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORBETT, Sarah Louise | Director | 2024-05-09 | May 1976 | British |
| JEFFERY, Thomas James Dowdeswell | Director | 2023-09-28 | Jul 1979 | British |
| LAMBERT, Nathan Philip Alan | Director | 2025-11-18 | Jan 1978 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CODY, Elizabeth Jane Kingsborough | Secretary | 1993-02-01 | 2007-05-01 |
| MILLINGTON, Paul Leonard | Secretary | 2007-05-01 | 2015-07-10 |
| SIMPSON, John | Secretary | — | 1993-02-01 |
| WOOD, Fiona Anne Murray | Secretary | 2016-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| ALDRIDGE, Matthew John | Director | 2018-09-10 | 2023-01-31 |
| ANDERTON, John Michael | Director | — | 2000-02-03 |
| CROSSMAN, James Michael | Director | 2000-04-01 | 2003-05-16 |
| FEENEY, Peter Paul | Director | 2018-01-02 | 2022-01-10 |
| HOOK, Andrew John | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2022-01-10 |
| ISHERWOOD, David John | Director | 2000-04-01 | 2025-11-18 |
| MILLER, Nicholas Henry James | Director | — | 2013-11-15 |
| MILLINGTON, Paul Leonard | Director | 2007-08-23 | 2015-07-10 |
| NEEDLE, Simon Rex | Director | 2011-07-26 | 2022-01-10 |
| NICHOLLS, Christopher John | Director | 2011-07-26 | 2022-01-10 |
| RAVEN, Bryan Alan | Director | 2000-04-01 | 2023-09-28 |
| SIMPSON, John Dunsmore | Director | — | 2022-01-10 |
| SIMPSON, Paul | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2007-03-31 |
| THREADGOLD, Peter | Director | 2002-04-01 | 2018-05-31 |
| WILSON, Richard Michael | Director | 2000-04-01 | 2022-01-10 |
| WOOD, Fiona Anne Murray | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2023-12-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&B Solutions Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-07-30 | Active |
| White Light Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2018-12-01 | Ceased 2024-07-30 |
| Mr Bryan Alan Raven | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-11-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 219 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-06 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-01-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-09-26 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-19 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-19 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-29 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-01-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-12-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-26 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
+17.6%
£37,364,836 £43,954,640
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Cash
-32.2%
£1,504,963 £1,021,076
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Net assets
-28,617.7%
£7,439 -£2,121,431
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Employees
+19.8%
212 254
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Operating profit
-155.1%
£2,338,099 -£1,288,115
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Profit before tax
-152.4%
£2,037,593 -£1,068,627
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Wages
+39.9%
£8,438,956 £11,808,724
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