MARK ALLEN HOLDINGS LIMITED

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

Consolidated group

Auditor

Sterlings Ltd

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“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. 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 group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue”

Group structure

1. MARK ALLEN HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
   1. MA Dentistry Media Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   2. Headfirst Publishing Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · holding company
   3. Hopscotch Educational Publishing Ltd 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   4. MA Business Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   5. MA Education & Music Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   6. MA Exhibitions Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · exhibition and fair organisation
   7. MA Healthcare Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   8. MA Interiors Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   9. MA Music, Leisure & Travel Ltd 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   10. MA Agriculture Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing and conferences
   11. Master Travel Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   12. Miles Publishing Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   13. PR Please Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   14. Step Forward Publishing Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   15. The Airports Publishing Network Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   16. Unity Exhibitions Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   17. Unity Media Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   18. Mark Allen Engineering Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   19. MA Aviation and Auto International Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   20. MA Financial Media Ltd 100% · London, SE24 0PB · publishing consumer and business journals and periodicals
   21. Last Word Media (Asia) Pte Ltd 100% · Singapore · convention / conference organisers
   22. Last Word Media (HK) Limited 100% · Hong Kong · publishing consumer and business journals and periodicals
   23. Sterling Events Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   24. Heelec Limited 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   25. Lewis Business Media Ltd 100% · London, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   26. Sixth Continent Holdings Limited 100% · England, SE24 0PB · holding company
   27. Sixth Continent Intelligence Limited 100% · England, SE24 0PB · non-trading
   28. MA Travel Retail Limited 100% · London, England, SE24 0PB · other publishing activities
   29. Moodie Davitt Asia Limited 100% · Hong Kong · publishing and event organiser

Significant events

• “On 31 December 2025 the group acquired road assets from DVV International Media, including Commercial Motor, Motor Transport and Road Transport Expo.”

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

1

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

  +3.8%

  £69,479,085 → £72,114,056

• Cash

  -19.7%

  £9,241,547 → £7,419,637

• Net assets

  -17.2%

  £37,395,144 → £30,979,043

• Employees

  +3.6%

  528 → 547

• Operating profit

  -111.7%

  £6,153,941 → -£719,432

• Profit before tax

  -125%

  £5,452,228 → -£1,363,719

• Wages

  +2.8%

  £26,695,074 → £27,431,458

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