SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT UK LIMITED

1. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT UK LIMITED 2009-01-02 → present
2. SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (UK) LIMITED 2004-11-01 → 2009-01-02
3. BMG UK & IRELAND LIMITED 2002-04-08 → 2004-11-01
4. BMG ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL UK & IRELAND LIMITED 1996-08-06 → 2002-04-08
5. BMG RECORDS (UK) LIMITED 1987-04-01 → 1996-08-06
6. EURODISC MUSIC GROUP LIMITED 1980-12-31 → 1987-04-01
7. MBS FOUR LIMITED 1980-01-04 → 1980-12-31
8. BERTELSMANN MUSIC GROUP LIMITED 1980-01-04 → 1980-12-31

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

PricewaterhouseCoopers 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. In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”

Group structure

1. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT UK LIMITED · parent
   1. 4 Tunes Music Publishing Limited 100% · U.K.
   2. Blue Sky Music Limited 100% · U.K.
   3. Century Media Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   4. Charriet Music Limited 100% · U.K.
   5. Cheeky Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   6. Conifer Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   7. Creation Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   8. Deconstruction Limited 100% · U.K.
   9. Dedicated Limited 100% · U.K.
   10. Essential Music & Marketing Limited 100% · U.K.
   11. Global Television Limited 100% · U.K.
   12. Hansa Production Limited 100% · U.K.
   13. Indolent Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   14. Logic Records (UK) Limited 100% · U.K.
   15. Major Label Limited 100% · U.K.
   16. Minsub Limited 100% · Jersey
   17. Multitone Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   18. Phonogenic Limited 100% · U.K.
   19. Probity Europe Limited 35% · U.K.
   20. Probity Worldwide Limited 100% · U.K.
   21. Ronagold Limited 100% · U.K.
   22. Salli Isaak Limited 100% · U.K.
   23. Simco Limited 100% · U.K.
   24. Siro Live Limited 100% · U.K.
   25. Sony Music Entertainment Eurodisc Limited 100% · U.K.
   26. Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited 100% · Ireland
   27. Sony Music Interactive Video Limited 100% · U.K.
   28. UFA Video & Media (UK) Limited 100% · U.K.
   29. Vogelcourt Limited 100% · U.K.
   30. Wildstar Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   31. Zomba Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   32. Ceremony of Roses Limited 100% · U.K.
   33. SCA Music Holdings (UK) Limited 100% · U.K.
   34. The Luna Cinema Limited 60% · U.K.
   35. Somethin' Else Group Limited 100% · U.K.
   36. Hackney Records (Holdings) Limited 100% · UK
   37. Sign Of The Times Records Limited 100% · U.K.
   38. Broccoli Content Limited 50% · U.K.
   39. Triple Strings Limited 50% · U.K.
   40. B1 Records Limited 50% · U.K.
   41. Stackhouse Music Management Limited 50% · U.K.
   42. Robots and Humans Music Limited 50% · U.K.
   43. Room Two Recordings Limited 50% · U.K.
   44. Now That's What I Call Music LLP 50% · U.K.
   45. Sony BB Limited (formerly Black Butter Limited) 100% · U.K.

Significant events

• “On 1 May 2024 company acquired 51% of share capital of Black Butter Limited for a total consideration of £8,895,048.”
• “In July 2024 company paid a deferred consideration of £612,688 in relation to the acquisition of Probity Worldwide Limited and Probity Europe Limited.”
• “Hackney Records (Holdings) Limited - holding increased from 0% to 100% in 2025.”
• “In June 2023, the High Court handed down a decision in the Virgin Media Ltd versus NTL Pension Trustees II Ltd, which considered the implications of section 37 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993, which required that the rules of a salary-related contracted-out pension scheme cannot be altered, in relation to post April 1997 service, unless the actuary confirmed that the scheme would continue to satisfy the statutory standards. The High Court found that, where the required actuarial confirmation was not supplied, the effect of section 37 was to render the relevant amendment to any contracted-out right automatically void. It also held that references in the legislation included both past and future service rights and that the requirement for actuarial confirmation applied to all amendments to the rules of a contracted-out scheme. This decision was appealed to the Court of Appeal and, in July 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court. The Company will investigate the possible implications on the Scheme of the above with its advisers but, it is not possible, at present, to estimate the potential impact, if any, on the Scheme.”

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

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.

• Turnover

  +6.6%

  £340,678,000 → £363,265,000

• Cash

  +154.6%

  £557,000 → £1,418,000

• Net assets

  -30.8%

  £371,533,000 → £256,969,000

• Employees

  -1.8%

  333 → 327

• Operating profit

  -31.8%

  £73,368,000 → £50,055,000

• Profit before tax

  +59.1%

  £72,743,000 → £115,770,000

• Wages

  -6.7%

  £31,722,000 → £29,596,000

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