DAVID MORRIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-07-26 (in 2mo)

Last made up 2025-07-12

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£32M

+148% vs 2023

Net assets

£36M

-42.8% vs 2023

Employees

-36.5% vs 2023

Profit before tax

-£13M

-6,560% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

DAVID MORRIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1991-09-13 → present
DAVID MORRIS JEWELS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1991-08-06 → 1991-09-13
DAVID MORRIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1991-07-12 → 1991-08-06

Net assets

3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median

DAVID MORRIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED·Consumer Discretionary median · n=5592

Accounts

3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric	2022-12-31	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Turnover	—	£45,892,307	£88,009,222
Operating profit	—	£538,334	-£12,509,959
Profit before tax	—	£194,433	-£12,560,404
Net profit	—	£89,219	-£9,603,247
Cash	—	£12,900,524	£31,995,406
Total assets less current liabilities	—	£63,756,886	£36,459,344
Net assets	—	£63,756,886	£36,459,344
Equity	£54,462,526	£63,756,886	£36,459,344
Average employees	—	85	54
Wages	—	£5,786,072	£5,669,629

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	2022-12-31	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Operating margin	—	1.2%	-14.2%
Net margin	—	0.2%	-10.9%
Return on capital employed	—	0.8%	-34.3%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	—	38.9%	72.3%
Current ratio	—	2.48x	1.35x
Interest cover	—	1.57x	-197.44x

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: Saffery LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors prepared forecasts that have been sensitised to take into account the impact of the global economy and have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

DAVID MORRIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED · parent
1. David Morris International Incorporated 100% · USA · Jewellery retail
2. Elmtop Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Jewellery retail
3. David Morris (Middle East) Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Jewellery retail
4. David Morris Hong Kong Limited 100% · Hong Kong · Jewellery retail
5. Royal Gems Jewellery Trading LLC 100% · UAE · Jewellery retail
6. David Morris France Sasu 100% · France · Jewellery retail
7. Exclusive Brands Ltd 100% · Isle of Man · Holding IP rights

Significant events

“if the Company and Group are unable to meet the payment terms for the share buyback agreed in the Share Purchase Agreement dated 22 August 2024, they may be unable to meet their liabilities as they become due.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

3 active · 32 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
POND, Wayne Donald	Secretary	2007-03-06	—	British
MORRIS, Jeremy Lee	Director	—	Nov 1961	British
POND, Wayne Donald	Director	2008-04-21	Nov 1969	British

Show 32 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
ASHKEN, Richard Lawrence	Secretary	—	1992-10-31
SIMONDS, Rebecca Kate	Secretary	2004-02-27	2007-03-06
WOOTTON, Geoffrey	Secretary	1992-10-31	2004-02-27
ABOUSALEH, Ali	Director	2014-08-01	2018-03-01
ALMABROUK, Suhaib	Director	2021-02-08	2024-08-22
ALOBAIDLI, Ali Mohammed	Director	2018-04-24	2019-09-30
ASHKEN, Richard Lawrence	Director	—	1992-10-31
BODLE, Simon Philip	Director	2004-02-27	2005-07-21
FREEDMAN, Cyril Winston	Director	2004-02-27	2017-06-22
HOLBECH, William Henry	Director	2008-04-21	2017-02-23
HUKUDA, Takashi	Director	2002-05-13	2003-07-01
JOUDEH, Helal	Director	2019-03-28	2020-07-28
LEYENS, Richard	Director	1997-11-11	1999-01-31
MASUYAMA, Keiichiro	Director	1997-11-07	2003-07-01
MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki	Director	1998-10-31	2002-05-13
MORRIS, Andrew	Director	1994-02-24	1996-06-28
MORRIS, David	Director	—	2012-02-07
MORRIS, Suzette	Director	—	2012-02-07
NAGATA, Yoshihiko	Director	—	1997-11-07
NAKAHARA, Norio	Director	1998-10-31	2003-07-01
OBAYASHI, Kozo	Director	1998-10-31	2002-05-13
OHASHI, Wataru	Director	—	2002-05-13
OTERO, Marie Jesus	Director	2017-02-23	2018-10-09
ROSENBERG, Ian David	Director	1992-07-22	2005-01-31
SAASTAD, Barclay Joel	Director	2012-02-07	2014-01-16
SHABIB, Tareq Adnan Amin	Director	2014-06-02	2015-01-08
SIMONDS, Rebecca Kate	Director	2004-02-27	2007-05-31
STRACHAN, Scott Samuel	Director	2014-06-02	2019-03-25
TANAKA, Masaru M Janakay	Director	2002-05-13	2003-07-01
WAKEJIMA, Naohiko	Director	2002-05-13	2003-07-01
YAMAGUCHI, Koshi	Director	1998-10-31	2003-07-01
ZAIDAN, Ayman Ahmad Mohammed	Director	2021-04-01	2022-09-07

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Mr Jeremy Lee Morris	Individual	Shares 75–100%	2016-04-06	Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 202 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

2024-08-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
2024-08-25 MA Memorandum articles

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-02-20	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group	PDF
2026-02-18	MR04	mortgage	Mortgage satisfy charge full
2025-08-19	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-03-26	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group	PDF
2025-02-14	MR04	mortgage	Mortgage satisfy charge full	PDF
2024-12-16	PSC04	persons-with-significant-control	Change to a person with significant control	PDF
2024-08-27	MR01	mortgage	Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date	PDF
2024-08-25	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2024-08-25	MA	incorporation	Memorandum articles
2024-08-22	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2024-08-20	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-12-05	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2023-09-27	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-11-29	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2022-10-10	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2022-09-28	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-03-07	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2022-03-01	MR01	mortgage	Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date	PDF
2021-09-13	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-08-13	MR04	mortgage	Mortgage satisfy charge full	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 3
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

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

+91.8%

£45,892,307 £88,009,222
Cash

+148%

£12,900,524 £31,995,406
Net assets

-42.8%

£63,756,886 £36,459,344
Employees

-36.5%

85 54
Operating profit

-2,423.8%

£538,334 -£12,509,959
Profit before tax

-6,560%

£194,433 -£12,560,404
Wages

-2%

£5,786,072 £5,669,629

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

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