THOMAS PLANT (BIRMINGHAM) HOLDINGS LIMITED

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  The directors concluded that there is a material uncertainty related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.

1. THOMAS PLANT (BIRMINGHAM) HOLDINGS LIMITED 2016-12-09 → present
2. CREATIVE TOPS HOLDINGS LIMITED 2000-03-27 → 2016-12-09
3. SEVCO 1136 LIMITED 2000-02-22 → 2000-03-27

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

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“The directors concluded that there is a material uncertainty related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.”

Group structure

1. THOMAS PLANT (BIRMINGHAM) HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
   1. New Goal Development Limited 100% · Hong Kong
   2. La Cafetiere (UK) Limited 100% · Birmingham
   3. Lifetime Brands Europe B.V. 100% · Netherlands
   4. Creative Tops Limited 100% · Birmingham
   5. Lifetime Brands Europe Limited 100% · Birmingham
   6. Lifetime Brands Holdings Ltd 100% · Birmingham

Significant events

• “During the year the group's directors decided to implement a restructuring of debt between group companies. Loans advanced by Lifetime Brands, Inc to a fellow subsidiary, Lifetime Brands Europe Limited, were assigned to this company as an equity subscription. Lifetime Brands Europe Limited has been released from its obligations under these loans. The directors carried out an impairment review on the additional equity investment generated during the restructuring. Due to ongoing trading losses in its primary trading subsidiary, Lifetime Brands Europe Limited, that review was carried out on a net realisable assets basis and has resulted in full impairment of the additional equity investment.”

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

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

1

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

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  0%

  -£734,483 → -£734,483

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

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