MATTEL U.K. LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£0
-100% vs 2023
Net assets
£29M
+31.4% vs 2023
Employees
113
-1.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8M
-22.5% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £145,559,000 | £132,488,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,774,000 | £7,564,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,463,000 | £8,104,000 | |
| Net profit | £8,921,000 | £4,972,000 | |
| Cash | £5,000 | £0 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,216,000 | £29,168,000 | |
| Net assets | £21,985,000 | £28,883,000 | |
| Equity | £21,985,000 | £28,883,000 | |
| Average employees | 115 | 113 | |
| Wages | £8,696,000 | £8,831,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 5.7% | |
| Net margin | 6.1% | 3.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 30.5% | 25.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 73.8% | 66.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.33x | 1.48x | |
| Interest cover | 2258.00x | 222.47x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In assessing the company's ability to continue to operate as a going concern the directors have considered the financial position of the Company, the forecast profit from existing operations and, after making enquiries, have reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- MATTEL U.K. LIMITED · parent
- Fisher-Price Toys Limited 100%
- Beta MGL Limited 100%
- Kiddicraft Limited 100%
- Alpha Mal Limited 100%
- Gamma Tyco Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 26 June 2025 the Company paid a dividend of £10,000,000 to Mattel UK Holdings Limited who used this dividend to firstly pay down the accrued interest on its loan with Mattel International Finance B.V. and then used the remaining balance to pay down the principal loan balance.”
- “As part of Mattel's EMEA ambition to unlock additional growth opportunities Mattel launched a project during 2023 to move invoicing to Mattel Europa B.V., a Netherlands based entity, which is currently the importer of goods for Mattel into Europe and part of the wider Mattel group In doing so, management sought to achieve simplification within several internal processes, including simplification of invoicing and accounting and to leverage economies of scale.”
- “Sales revenue from January 2024 to July 2024 for that customer was recognised in the books of Mattel Europa B.V that previously would have been invoiced by Mattel U.K. Limited in 2024. The value of these net sales amounted to circa £4.0 million.”
- “The increase in the tax amount for 2024 is due to the higher tax rate of 25% for 2024 compared to 23.5% in 2023 where the tax rate changed part way through the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TUNG, Sukhjiwan Kaur | Secretary | 2005-07-12 | — | British |
| BAPNA, Prashant | Director | 2019-01-11 | May 1973 | Indian |
| HICK, Michael Brian | Director | 2013-10-01 | Aug 1978 | British |
| PELLEGRINO, Michael Joseph | Director | 2021-02-01 | Dec 1979 | American |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUNTE, Ronald David | Secretary | 1995-11-01 | 2000-03-30 |
| DESAI, Bimal | Secretary | 2000-03-30 | 2005-07-12 |
| MAWBY, John David | Secretary | — | 1995-11-01 |
| ALLMARK, David | Director | 2008-01-14 | 2011-08-15 |
| ALLMARK, David | Director | 2000-03-30 | 2001-05-21 |
| BENISON, Graham Ernest | Director | — | 1994-01-01 |
| BRACY, William Layne | Director | 1996-03-28 | 1997-08-08 |
| CHRISTMAN, Steven | Director | 2004-09-01 | 2006-06-30 |
| DOWNS, Kevin | Director | 1996-07-22 | 2000-03-30 |
| EICHORN, Peter K | Director | — | 1996-02-27 |
| GEDDES, Dominic Julian | Director | 2001-05-21 | 2017-12-31 |
| GUARISCO, William Salvatore | Director | 1996-01-05 | 2004-04-30 |
| HARPER, John Laurence | Director | 1994-01-01 | 1996-03-18 |
| HILL, Wendy Elizabeth | Director | 2013-06-10 | 2018-04-03 |
| HORTON, Denis Edward | Director | 1995-12-12 | 1998-03-06 |
| IKIN, Dean William | Director | 2011-08-10 | 2019-01-11 |
| JORDAN, Jacqueline Emily | Director | 2003-11-24 | 2009-05-18 |
| MAWBY, John David | Director | — | 1995-12-12 |
| MURTHA, Eugene | Director | 2001-07-20 | 2003-11-24 |
| NORMILE, Robert John | Director | 1998-07-06 | 2020-12-31 |
| PEAN, Jean Christophe | Director | 2003-11-24 | 2007-10-19 |
| REDDY, Sandeep Rajaram | Director | 2006-04-20 | 2008-04-01 |
| SANDERSON, Antony Richard | Director | 1998-11-02 | 2001-01-31 |
| SCHETTER, Carla | Director | 2000-03-30 | 2004-08-04 |
| SMITH, Leland | Director | 1998-04-01 | 1998-07-01 |
| TRAUGHBER, David Cleve | Director | 2008-04-01 | 2011-02-25 |
| WALKER, Geoffrey Hulbert | Director | 2011-03-02 | 2013-04-01 |
| WILLIAMS, Lindsey Francis | Director | — | 1996-01-05 |
| ZUBRISKI, Erica Marilyn | Director | 2009-05-18 | 2011-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattel Uk Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 200 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-16 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-01-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-11-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-11-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-05-06 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2020-04-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2020-04-21 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2020-04-06 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-9%
£145,559,000 £132,488,000
-
Cash
-100%
£5,000 £0
-
Net assets
+31.4%
£21,985,000 £28,883,000
-
Employees
-1.7%
115 113
-
Operating profit
+11.7%
£6,774,000 £7,564,000
-
Profit before tax
-22.5%
£10,463,000 £8,104,000
-
Wages
+1.6%
£8,696,000 £8,831,000
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