WARNER CHAPPELL MLM LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-09 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£101
+100% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£2M
+10,506.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- WARNER CHAPPELL MLM LIMITED 2019-05-16 → present
- WARNER/CHAPPELL MLM LIMITED 2010-10-05 → 2019-05-16
- MORRISON LEAHY MUSIC LIMITED 1981-11-19 → 2010-10-05
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,658 | — | |
| Operating profit | £14,439 | £1,531,495 | |
| Profit before tax | £14,439 | £1,531,495 | |
| Net profit | £11,266 | £1,148,621 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | -£1,148,521 | £101 | |
| Equity | -£1,148,521 | £101 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| 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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 69.9% | — | |
| Net margin | 54.5% | — |
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
- Ecovis Wingrave Yeats LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Although it is unlikely that future exploitations will be made by the Company, and the intention is for the Company to become dormant, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the parent company, Warner Music Group Corp., has confirmed that it will provide such financial support as necessary to the Company to enable it to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due.”
Significant events
- “During the year a significant transaction occurred and due to its size, non-recurring nature, and its impact on the Company's financial position and future operations an exceptional item note has been included in the accounts, please see note 3.”
- “During the year ended 30 September 2024, Warner Chappell MLM Limited (“WCMLM") entered into a significant one-off transaction with fellow group companies, Warner Chappell Music International Limited ("WCMI") and Warner Chappell Music Limited ("WCM UK"), to settle an historic intercompany balance and restructure the exploitation of its music publishing rights. As part of this restructuring, the Company transferred the rights to exploit its remaining catalogue to another group entity and has since ceased trading operations.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALDERTON, Katherine Elizabeth | Director | 2017-09-22 | Nov 1986 | British |
| GONZALES, Shani | Director | 2024-03-12 | Sep 1979 | American |
| YOUNG, Darren Robert | Director | 2021-12-10 | Jun 1973 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDERMOTT, Nicola | Secretary | 2001-05-01 | 2010-06-10 |
| ROWLEY, Patricia June | Secretary | — | 1992-07-17 |
| STRETTON, Peter John | Secretary | 1992-07-17 | 2001-04-30 |
| OLSWANG COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2010-06-10 | 2024-04-10 |
| DYBALL, Jane Mary | Director | 2010-06-10 | 2013-06-19 |
| LAVIN, Michael Anthony | Director | 2010-06-10 | 2024-03-12 |
| LEAHY, Ben | Director | 2001-06-30 | 2010-06-10 |
| LEAHY, Derek Joseph Patrick | Director | — | 2001-06-30 |
| MANNERS, James Richard | Director | 2010-06-17 | 2016-04-21 |
| MORRISON, Bryan Anthony | Director | — | 2008-09-26 |
| SMITH, Joanne Sian | Director | 2014-05-13 | 2021-12-10 |
| SMITH, Michael Edward John | Director | 2016-12-22 | 2020-03-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warner Chappell Music Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-08-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-10 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-04-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
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 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+100%
-£1,148,521 £101
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+10,506.7%
£14,439 £1,531,495
-
Profit before tax
+10,506.7%
£14,439 £1,531,495
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