DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£51M
+23% vs 2024
Net assets
£166M
+9.5% vs 2024
Employees
682
+2.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£19M
+16.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRES LIMITED 1991-11-11 → present
- BERNARD DELFONT THEATRES LIMITED 1991-03-01 → 1991-11-11
- JOINTSMART LIMITED 1990-07-05 → 1991-03-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £71,520,153 | £77,268,747 | |
| Operating profit | £15,974,412 | £17,747,690 | |
| Profit before tax | £16,592,548 | £19,385,195 | |
| Net profit | £12,374,271 | £14,449,601 | |
| Cash | £41,330,950 | £50,843,023 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £188,043,445 | £202,472,824 | |
| Net assets | £151,975,189 | £166,424,790 | |
| Equity | £151,975,189 | £166,424,790 | |
| Average employees | 664 | 682 | |
| Wages | £22,071,908 | £23,404,485 |
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 | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 22.3% | 23.0% | |
| Net margin | 17.3% | 18.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.5% | 8.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.16x | 1.54x | |
| Interest cover | 71.96x | 716.53x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The annual report and financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which assumes that the company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRES LIMITED · parent
- The Prince of Wales Theatre Limited 100%
- Prince Edward Theatre Limited 100%
- Victoria Palace Theatre Limited 100%
- Victoria Palace 100%
- Marius Productions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Successful long-running productions of Les Misérables, Hamilton, Mamma Mia! and The Book of Mormon continued to be hosted by the company...”
- “At the Gielgud, Noel Coward and Wyndham's Theatres, the company presented productions of Long Day's Journey into Night, Player Kings, Opening Night, Next to Normal, Oedipus, Inside No. 9, Slave Play, Dr Strangelove, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Comedy About Spies, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Frank Skinner, Juno and the Paycock and a new production of Oliver!. The Broadway transfer of MJ the Musical continued its run at the Prince Edward.”
- “The company continued its theatre restoration and refurbishment programme making ongoing improvements both front- and back-of-house across the portfolio.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KNIBB, Richard Trevor | Secretary | 1999-05-26 | — | British |
| FINCH, Alan Arthur | Director | 2016-09-14 | Apr 1965 | British |
| MACKINTOSH, Cameron Anthony, Sir | Director | — | Oct 1946 | British |
| VILLAGE, William Leo | Director | 2021-04-06 | Jan 1978 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHILLINGLAW, Gary Preston | Secretary | 1993-04-05 | 1999-01-19 |
| WHEELER, Jonathan | Secretary | 1999-01-19 | 1999-05-26 |
| WRIGHT, David William | Secretary | — | 1993-04-05 |
| ALLOTT, Nicholas David | Director | — | 2025-03-31 |
| BIGGS, George Christopher | Director | 1997-01-01 | 2006-03-06 |
| COLES, Charles Graham | Director | 1994-02-14 | 1999-05-26 |
| CONLAN, John Oliver | Director | 1994-01-12 | 1997-06-02 |
| DALCO, Matthew George John | Director | 2000-05-26 | 2007-08-31 |
| DELFONT, Bernard, Lord | Director | — | 1994-07-28 |
| FOSTER, Michael Raymond | Director | 1997-06-02 | 1999-05-26 |
| GRADE, Michael Ian | Director | 1994-10-06 | 1999-05-26 |
| JOHNSTON, Richard Arthur | Director | 2004-09-30 | 2021-04-30 |
| MCCALLUM, Martin Jeffrey | Director | — | 2003-03-28 |
| MILLS, Richard | Director | 1994-02-14 | 1996-02-13 |
| MILLS, Richard | Director | — | 1994-01-12 |
| RAYNE, Max, Lord | Director | — | 1999-05-26 |
| RAYNE, Robert Anthony, The Honourable | Director | 1994-02-14 | 1999-05-26 |
| ROBERTS, Peter Heathcote | Director | 2007-04-04 | 2008-12-04 |
| ROBERTS, Peter Heathcote | Director | 2000-03-01 | 2006-12-29 |
| TAMBLYN, Nicholas | Director | 1994-02-14 | 1997-06-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-03-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 156 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-04-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-01-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-04-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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 2025-03-30 vs 2024-03-30
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Turnover
+8%
£71,520,153 £77,268,747
-
Cash
+23%
£41,330,950 £50,843,023
-
Net assets
+9.5%
£151,975,189 £166,424,790
-
Employees
+2.7%
664 682
-
Operating profit
+11.1%
£15,974,412 £17,747,690
-
Profit before tax
+16.8%
£16,592,548 £19,385,195
-
Wages
+6%
£22,071,908 £23,404,485
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