POPULOUS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-26 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£34M
+89.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£22M
+103.4% vs 2023
Employees
436
+51.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£19M
+67.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- POPULOUS LIMITED 2009-03-31 → present
- HOK SPORT LIMITED 2000-07-10 → 2009-03-31
- HOK+LOBB LIMITED 1999-03-11 → 2000-07-10
- LOBB PARTNERSHIP LIMITED 1993-09-14 → 1999-03-11
- LOBB DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED 1987-05-20 → 1993-09-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £134,948,257 | £163,604,703 | |
| Operating profit | £11,668,827 | £19,940,300 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,614,656 | £19,411,313 | |
| Net profit | £8,699,246 | £15,027,233 | |
| Cash | £18,160,437 | £34,492,946 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,757,460 | £21,885,279 | |
| Net assets | £10,757,460 | £21,885,279 | |
| Equity | £10,757,460 | £21,885,279 | |
| Average employees | 288 | 436 | |
| Wages | £40,951,081 | £28,432,560 |
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 | 8.6% | 12.2% | |
| Net margin | 6.4% | 9.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 108.5% | 91.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.13x | 1.24x | |
| Interest cover | 153.56x | 37.61x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Rouse Audit 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 group's or the parent 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”
Group structure
- POPULOUS LIMITED · parent
- Jump Architecture & Design Limited 100%
- Jump Constructs Limited 67%
- Populous Event (EMEA) Limited 100%
- Populous D&B Limited 100%
- Experience Studios Limited 100%
- Populous France SELAS 49%
- Populous Architecture Limited 100%
- Populous Consulting 100%
- Populous Architecture Engineering Company 100%
- Populous Germany (PG) GmbH 100%
- Populous Design and Consultancy SL 100%
Significant events
- “2024 was a standout year for the practice in the EMEA region, marked by the completion and culmination of several major European projects, including Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, the new Riverside Stand at Fulham FC... and the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Summer Games”
- “secured and publicly announced several new high-profile projects, including Stade Hassan II in Casablanca... new home for Italian giants AS Roma, and the new Kop Stand for Wrexham AFC”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RICHARDS, Stuart Peter | Secretary | 2021-11-26 | — | — |
| COURTNEY, Rhys Ian | Director | 2024-07-22 | Jul 1981 | Australian |
| HAMDAN, Shireen | Director | 2017-10-17 | Jan 1983 | British |
| LEE, Christopher David | Director | 2011-12-12 | Sep 1970 | Australian |
| RICHARDS, Stuart Peter | Director | 2024-07-22 | Sep 1980 | British |
| RIGBY, Peter Stephen | Director | 2017-10-18 | Jul 1955 | British |
| SHARKEY, Declan Joseph | Director | 2022-03-25 | Jan 1985 | Irish |
| STORRY, Heather Clare | Director | 2022-03-25 | Jan 1979 | British |
| TRICE, Michael Rene | Director | 2014-01-15 | Jul 1966 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLIFFORD, Keith Douglas | Secretary | — | 1998-01-22 |
| HENDERSON, Francis Johannes | Secretary | 2012-03-01 | 2016-10-31 |
| REYNOLDS, Nicholas Craig | Secretary | 2019-05-28 | 2021-11-26 |
| SHEARD, Catherine | Secretary | 2004-12-10 | 2012-02-29 |
| SHEARD, Catherine | Secretary | 1998-01-22 | 2002-09-16 |
| TINNING CLOWES, Rik Stephen | Secretary | 2002-09-16 | 2004-12-10 |
| VICKERY, Benedict Simon | Secretary | 2016-11-01 | 2019-03-28 |
| BARROW, John Anthony | Director | 2002-01-25 | 2013-07-11 |
| CROOK, Michael Roy | Director | 1994-02-25 | 2001-03-13 |
| CUT LACK, James Norman Hewett | Director | — | 1993-06-15 |
| HARRIS, Nigel Blayden | Director | 1994-02-25 | 1994-12-31 |
| HENRY, Paul Rodney | Director | 1994-02-25 | 2001-03-13 |
| JONES, Sean Vincent | Director | 1994-02-25 | 2001-03-13 |
| LOCKWOOD, David Stuart | Director | 2000-06-21 | 2001-01-26 |
| LOWE, Barry | Director | 1997-12-05 | 2008-01-22 |
| MARTIN, Richard Allen | Director | 2001-03-13 | 2002-04-10 |
| PARRISH, John Richard Jeremy | Director | 1996-02-16 | 2000-04-11 |
| REYNOLDS, Nicholas Craig | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2024-05-31 |
| SHEARD, Rodney Kilner | Director | — | 2021-04-15 |
| VICKERY, Benedict Simon | Director | 2007-10-16 | 2019-03-28 |
| VICKERY, Benedict Simon | Director | 2000-06-21 | 2001-03-13 |
| WALKER, Christopher Douglas | Director | 2022-03-25 | 2025-12-31 |
| WILSON, Derek | Director | 1994-02-25 | 2001-03-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 176 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-04-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-08-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-26 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+21.2%
£134,948,257 £163,604,703
-
Cash
+89.9%
£18,160,437 £34,492,946
-
Net assets
+103.4%
£10,757,460 £21,885,279
-
Employees
+51.4%
288 436
-
Operating profit
+70.9%
£11,668,827 £19,940,300
-
Profit before tax
+67.1%
£11,614,656 £19,411,313
-
Wages
-30.6%
£40,951,081 £28,432,560
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