YAHOO-UK LIMITED

1. YAHOO-UK LIMITED 2021-11-01 → present
2. VERIZON MEDIA UK LIMITED 2020-10-29 → 2021-11-01
3. OATH (UK) LIMITED 2017-06-13 → 2020-10-29
4. AOL (UK) LIMITED 2001-03-01 → 2017-06-13
5. AOL HOLDINGS (UK) LIMITED 1998-02-06 → 2001-03-01
6. AOL HOLDINGS LIMITED 1997-12-24 → 1998-02-06
7. ARCHERBROOK LIMITED 1997-11-07 → 1997-12-24

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence. The directors have assessed this for the 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements. Thus, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”

Significant events

• “In May 2025 Yahoo EMEA Limited transferred its Yahoo and AOL mail, search, media and subscription services businesses (in aggregate referred to as 'consumer service businesses') to Yahoo International Limited, a new Irish company that is also part of the Yahoo group.”
• “On 25 July 2024, in order to create distributable reserves, the Company reduced its share capital from £60,000,000 to £10,000,000 by cancelling and extinguishing 50,000,000 of the issued ordinary shares of £1.00 each in the Company each of which is fully paid.”
• “On 31 July 2024, a dividend in specie of £60,920,680 was declared and satisfied through the transfer of a receivable due to the Company from Yahoo Inc. (Note 9), and paid to the sole shareholder of the Company, Yahoo Holdings Inc.”
• “On 7 November 2024, in order to create distributable reserves, the Company further reduced its share capital by £9,999,990. After the Reduction of Capital, the Company's share capital is £10.”
• “On 15 November 2024, in order to return the funds from the Reduction of Capital together with the distributable reserves to the sole shareholder, a payment of a special dividend of £27,000,000 was made in cash to the sole shareholder, Yahoo Holdings Inc., of the Company.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

6

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -28.1%

  £53,899,000 → £38,735,000

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  -94.1%

  £88,239,000 → £5,216,000

• Employees

  -20%

  195 → 156

• Operating profit

  -30.3%

  £2,580,000 → £1,797,000

• Profit before tax

  -11.9%

  £5,870,000 → £5,169,000

• Wages

  -24.4%

  £23,900,000 → £18,067,000

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