PLEASE HOLD (UK) LIMITED

1. PLEASE HOLD (UK) LIMITED 1999-01-28 → present
2. PLEASE HOLD UK LIMITED 1998-12-23 → 1999-01-28
3. AARCO 165 LIMITED 1998-11-17 → 1998-12-23

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

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The director has at the time of approving these financial statements a reasonable expectation that the company and the wider group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of not less than 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, the director has concluded that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “In April 2025 the group concluded a transaction to transfer a majority shareholding in PHMG TopCo Limited to an Employee Ownership Trust (PHMG Trustee Limited). The transaction involved the repayment of all existing bank debt and the group supported the Employee Trust in raising new finance to partially fund the purchase of their majority shareholding. As part of the sale process payments were agreed to be made by PHMG to a number of former employees of the group in recognition of their contribution to building the value of the business over the past 25 years. These payments settled all liabilities of the group to former employees in this regard.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -1%

  £26,722,854 → £26,461,215

• Cash

  +243.7%

  £1,737,531 → £5,972,752

• Net assets

  +31.5%

  £64,368,928 → £84,654,687

• Employees

  +6%

  554 → 587

• Operating profit

  +68.4%

  £14,735,243 → £24,816,348

• Profit before tax

  +66.3%

  £14,741,871 → £24,518,127

• Wages

  +8.9%

  £27,256,851 → £29,690,438

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