PATHE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-09 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-26
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-49.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£5M
+1% vs 2023
Employees
13
-18.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£528K
+89% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PATHE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED 1999-09-20 → present
- PATHE FILM ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED 1999-07-26 → 1999-09-20
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,602,000 | £8,865,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£4,806,000 | -£754,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,816,000 | -£528,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,660,000 | £47,000 | |
| Cash | £8,542,000 | £4,291,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,551,000 | £4,598,000 | |
| Net assets | £4,551,000 | £4,598,000 | |
| Equity | £4,551,000 | £4,598,000 | |
| Average employees | 16 | 13 | |
| Wages | £2,286,000 | £1,711,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -18.1% | -8.5% | |
| Net margin | -10.0% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -105.6% | -16.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.27x | 1.32x | |
| Interest cover | -480.60x | — |
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
- Kreston Reeves LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. 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 Group's or the Parent 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
- PATHE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED · parent
- Pathé Fund Limited 100%
- Pathé Productions Limited 100%
- Pathé Joy Limited 100%
- Pathé Features Limited 100%
- Allied Films Limited 100%
- Pathé (Jet Lag) Limited 100%
- Pathé Slate Limited 100%
- Magic Rights Limited 50%
- Pathé CFL Limited 100%
- Descent 2 Distributions Limited 100%
- Descent 2 Films Limited 100%
- Pathé Descent Limited 100%
- Slumdog Films Limited 100%
- Slumdog Distributions Limited 100%
- Scouting Book Films Limited 100%
- Centurion Films Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During 2024, the television business obtained its first greenlight for BBC and the film "Joy" was released. In October 2024,the UK Group acquired the Celador group of companies, whose notable films include Slumdog Millionaire.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PENHALE, Faith Kezia | Director | 2023-03-01 | Apr 1974 | British |
| SAFAEE, Ardavan | Director | 2018-09-13 | Mar 1981 | French |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MH SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 1999-07-26 | 2017-03-31 |
| BORGARS, Jennifer Ann | Director | 2018-06-01 | 2022-07-07 |
| CREPON, Michel Claude Andre | Director | 1999-09-09 | 2011-05-31 |
| IVERNEL, Francois | Director | 2000-06-01 | 2013-05-30 |
| LACAN, Marc | Director | 2007-03-06 | 2018-09-03 |
| LLOYD, Alexis | Director | 1999-09-09 | 2000-05-31 |
| MCCRACKEN, Cameron Robert | Director | 2006-05-17 | 2023-12-22 |
| MH DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 1999-07-26 | 1999-09-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Jerome Seydoux | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 98 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-19 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-66.7%
£26,602,000 £8,865,000
-
Cash
-49.8%
£8,542,000 £4,291,000
-
Net assets
+1%
£4,551,000 £4,598,000
-
Employees
-18.8%
16 13
-
Operating profit
+84.3%
-£4,806,000 -£754,000
-
Profit before tax
+89%
-£4,816,000 -£528,000
-
Wages
-25.2%
£2,286,000 £1,711,000
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