GLOBAL MEDIA GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-10 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£70M
+7.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
-64.9% vs 2024
Employees
1,512
-3.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£33M
-898.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- GLOBAL MEDIA GROUP SERVICES LIMITED 2021-04-01 → present
- GLOBAL RADIO SERVICES LIMITED 2008-10-30 → 2021-04-01
- GCAP MEDIA SERVICES LIMITED 2005-05-11 → 2008-10-30
- GWR RADIO SERVICES LIMITED 1997-02-18 → 2005-05-11
- OVAL (1157) LIMITED 1996-12-27 → 1997-02-18
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £214,001,000 | £209,050,000 | |
| Operating profit | £24,998,000 | -£4,753,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,086,000 | -£32,623,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,358,000 | -£31,064,000 | |
| Cash | £64,990,000 | £69,916,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £72,757,000 | £31,266,000 | |
| Net assets | £42,248,000 | £14,821,000 | |
| Equity | £42,248,000 | £14,821,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,570 | 1,512 | |
| Wages | £105,830,000 | £106,606,000 |
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 | 11.7% | -2.3% | |
| Net margin | 1.6% | -14.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 34.4% | -15.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 95.1% | 98.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.02x | 0.98x | |
| Interest cover | 0.47x | -0.07x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers 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 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
- GLOBAL MEDIA GROUP SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Atlantic Broadcasting Limited 100%
- Audio HQ LLC 100%
- Chiltern Radio Limited 100%
- Cotswold Broadcasting Company Limited 100%
- DAX Digital Audio Exchange Inc 100%
- DAX US Inc 100%
- Devonair Radio Limited 100%
- Digital Audio Exchange Limited 100%
- Doubleplay 1 Limited 100%
- Gemini Radio Limited 100%
- GM&E GmbH 100%
- GWR (West) Limited 100%
- Hereward Radio Limited 100%
- Lantern Radio Limited 99%
- Leicester Sound Limited 100%
- Mid Anglia Radio Limited 100%
- Orchard FM Limited 100%
- Orchard Media Limited 100%
- Oval (709) Limited 99%
- Plymouth Sound Limited 100%
- Pop Buzz Limited 100%
- Radio Broadland Limited 100%
- Radio Orwell Limited 100%
- Radio Trent Limited 100%
- Remixd Media Inc 100%
- Saxon Radio Limited 100%
- South Hams Radio Limited 64%
- Suffolk Group Radio Limited 100%
- Thames Valley Broadcasting Limited 100%
- The Northamptonshire Broadcasting Company Limited 100%
- Two Counties Radio Limited 100%
- We the Unicorns Limited 100%
- West Country Broadcasting Limited 100%
- Westward Radio Limited 100%
- Wiltshire Radio Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENSER-WIGHT, Sebastian James | Director | 2025-04-28 | Jul 1988 | British |
| GORDON, Michael | Director | 2009-01-27 | Nov 1962 | British |
| MIRON, Stephen Gabriel | Director | 2008-12-01 | May 1965 | British |
| PITTS, Simon Jeremy | Director | 2025-03-17 | Jul 1975 | British |
| PORTER, Benedict Campion | Director | 2023-07-01 | Mar 1975 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEAK, Jonathan | Secretary | 2015-11-09 | 2017-12-31 |
| DANIELS, Ruth Patricia | Secretary | 2018-05-16 | 2019-10-31 |
| GIFFARD-TAYLOR, Barrie | Secretary | 1997-03-27 | 1999-02-24 |
| MANNING, Richard Denley John | Secretary | 2001-11-08 | 2008-11-28 |
| PALLOT, Wendy | Secretary | 1999-02-24 | 2001-11-08 |
| POTTERELL, Clive Ronald | Secretary | 2008-11-28 | 2015-09-30 |
| OVALSEC LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-12-27 | 1997-03-27 |
| ALLEN, Charles Lamb, Lord Allen Of Kensington | Director | 2008-06-09 | 2025-03-17 |
| BERNARD, Ralph Mitchell | Director | 1997-03-27 | 2008-01-15 |
| CONNOLE, Michael Damien | Director | 2008-07-18 | 2015-08-14 |
| HAZLITT, Anne Frances | Director | 2007-10-23 | 2008-06-06 |
| MANNING, Richard Denley John | Director | 2007-10-23 | 2008-11-28 |
| ORCHARD, Stephen | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2008-04-21 |
| PALLOT, Wendy Monica | Director | 2001-11-08 | 2008-07-18 |
| PARK, Richard Francis Jackson | Director | 2008-11-20 | 2019-07-01 |
| SINGER, Darren David | Director | 2015-11-09 | 2023-07-01 |
| TABOR, Ashley Daniel | Director | 2008-06-09 | 2017-08-21 |
| TAYLOR, John Patrick Enfield | Director | 1997-03-27 | 2003-07-31 |
| THOMSON, Donald Alexander | Director | 2008-11-20 | 2009-09-30 |
| OVAL NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-12-27 | 1997-03-27 |
| OVALSEC LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-12-27 | 1997-03-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwr Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-04-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-04-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-25 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2023-04-25 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2023-04-25 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2023-04-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-12-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-01 | 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
-2.3%
£214,001,000 £209,050,000
-
Cash
+7.6%
£64,990,000 £69,916,000
-
Net assets
-64.9%
£42,248,000 £14,821,000
-
Employees
-3.7%
1,570 1,512
-
Operating profit
-119%
£24,998,000 -£4,753,000
-
Profit before tax
-898.4%
£4,086,000 -£32,623,000
-
Wages
+0.7%
£105,830,000 £106,606,000
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