PUZZLER MEDIA LIMITED

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. PUZZLER MEDIA LIMITED 2003-01-15 → present
2. BRITISH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS LIMITED 1973-09-28 → 2003-01-15

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Henderson Loggie LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. PUZZLER MEDIA LIMITED · parent
   1. Puzzler Media Australia Pty Limited 100% · Australia

Significant events

• “A dividend of £1,184,589 was received from subsidiary, Puzzler Media Australia Pty Limited this year.”
• “Ordinary dividends were paid amounting to £18,000,000.”
• “Following a group restructuring in the prior year, the company's immediate parent undertaking changed from Puzzler Media Group Limited, to John Leng & Company Limited, a company incorporated in Great Britain and registered in Scotland. The company's ultimate parent undertaking is D.C. Thomson & Company Limited, a company incorporated in Great Britain and registered in Scotland. There is no individual controlling party of D.C. Thomson & Company Limited.”

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

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +7.7%

  £16,455,138 → £17,725,371

  highest in 6 filed years

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  -59.3%

  £20,056,552 → £8,163,855

  lowest in 4 filed years

• Employees

  -2.7%

  37 → 36

  lowest in 6 filed years

• Operating profit

  +6.4%

  £6,165,280 → £6,562,454

  highest in 6 filed years

• Profit before tax

  +25.7%

  £6,165,509 → £7,747,043

  highest in 6 filed years

• Wages

  -1.9%

  £1,530,969 → £1,502,126

  lowest in 6 filed years

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers