OXFORD PUBLISHING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-02 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£21M
-23.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£33M
-32.1% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£10M
-32.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £22,920,000 | £30,785,000 | |
| Operating profit | £13,361,000 | £8,556,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £15,277,000 | £10,328,000 | |
| Net profit | £13,991,000 | £8,567,000 | |
| Cash | £27,797,000 | £21,279,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,128,000 | £32,695,000 | |
| Net assets | £48,128,000 | £32,695,000 | |
| Equity | £48,128,000 | £32,695,000 | |
| 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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 58.3% | 27.8% | |
| Net margin | 61.0% | 27.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 27.8% | 26.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 22.0% | 47.7% | |
| Current ratio | 3.39x | 1.51x |
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
- Gravita Audit Oxford LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Management have undertaken a going concern analysis of the company's profit and loss account and balance sheet for the periods up to and including the year ending 31 March 2027. These indicate that even allowing for a neutral view of turnover, an annual increase of management charges from the parent, and a pessimistic view of subsidiary investment holdings, the company will continue to return a net profit for this period. In addition, forecasts of company cash flows and balances indicate that it will continue to be able to meet outgoing commitments with headroom to spare.”
Group structure
- OXFORD PUBLISHING LIMITED · parent
- Oxford University Press GmbH 99%
- Oxford University Press Espana SA 100%
- Oxford Yayincilik Ltd Sti 100%
- Oxford University Press Srl 100%
- Oxford University Press Korea Ltd 100%
- Oxford University Press Argentina SA 95%
- Oxford University Press Mexico SA de CV 100%
- Oxford University Press do Brasil Publicacoes Ltda 100%
- Oxford University Press Tanzania Ltd 100%
- Oxford University Press East Africa Ltd 100%
- Oxford University Press Polska Sp.zoo 98%
- OUP SG (Services) Pte Ltd 100%
- Oxford University Press Orbis (Pty) Ltd 100%
- Oxford University Press India Private Ltd 100%
- Oxford Publishing (Malaysia) SDN BHD 100%
- OUP Egypt Limited 99%
- OUP India Private Limited 0.01%
- Oxford University Press Pakistan (SMC-Private) Limited 100%
- OUP Services Private Limited 99.9%
Significant events
- “Net profit fell by £5.4m in the year to 31 March 2025, driven primarily by a decrease in dividend receipts of £6.0.”
- “Rights income for the prior year has been restated, as set out in note 15, to reflect previously unrecognised group company accruals and corrections to data arising from the implementation of a new finance system in April 2024.”
- “During the year, the Company made a dividend payment to its parent of £20.0m in addition to the donation made under gift aid of £4.0m relating to prior year profits.”
- “a further capital investment of £1,500k was made in Turkey as well as an investment in a newly incorporated company in India to the value of £289k.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BISSET, Gillian Mary | Secretary | 2021-07-02 | — | — |
| BISSET, Gillian Mary | Director | 2021-07-02 | Feb 1964 | British |
| PORTWOOD, Nigel David | Director | 2009-09-07 | Dec 1965 | British |
| SCOBIE, Charles Keith | Director | 2023-07-14 | Oct 1976 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Kevin James | Secretary | 2020-02-25 | 2021-07-02 |
| HALL, Christopher Keith | Secretary | — | 1995-05-26 |
| LAZARUS, Carolyn Jane | Secretary | 1995-05-26 | 1999-04-27 |
| WALSH, John Patrick | Secretary | 1999-04-27 | 2020-02-25 |
| ANDREWES, William Richard | Director | — | 1996-03-08 |
| ARNOLD BAKER, Charles James | Director | 1993-08-23 | 1998-07-31 |
| BONING, Roger Charles | Director | 1996-03-08 | 2006-03-31 |
| BROWN, Kevin James | Director | 1999-01-01 | 2021-07-02 |
| ELLIOTT, Roger James, Professor | Director | 1992-12-23 | 1993-08-31 |
| GILLARD, David James | Director | 2006-10-30 | 2013-09-30 |
| GREEN, Geoffrey David | Director | 1996-03-08 | 1999-04-16 |
| HALL, Christopher Keith | Director | 1995-10-19 | 1998-12-31 |
| HALL, Christopher Keith | Director | — | 1992-12-23 |
| REECE, Henry Michael | Director | 1998-08-18 | 2009-06-30 |
| ROGERS, James Julian | Director | 2012-07-02 | 2012-10-29 |
| SPACKMAN, Giles Richard Lovell | Director | 2014-01-28 | 2023-07-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 159 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-03-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-07-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2021-07-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2021-07-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-03-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+34.3%
£22,920,000 £30,785,000
-
Cash
-23.4%
£27,797,000 £21,279,000
-
Net assets
-32.1%
£48,128,000 £32,695,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-36%
£13,361,000 £8,556,000
-
Profit before tax
-32.4%
£15,277,000 £10,328,000
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