CITYWIRE HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-25 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-11
Watchouts
Cash
£5M
-13.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£6M
+5.6% vs 2023
Employees
271
-12.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
+309.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CITYWIRE HOLDINGS LIMITED 2001-01-24 → present
- MANGOVALE LIMITED 2000-08-10 → 2001-01-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £42,555,436 | £45,428,032 | |
| Operating profit | £950,431 | £3,789,509 | |
| Profit before tax | £942,106 | £3,854,042 | |
| Net profit | £715,322 | £2,971,403 | |
| Cash | £6,306,648 | £5,481,655 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,245,277 | £7,453,903 | |
| Net assets | £5,646,096 | £5,963,978 | |
| Equity | £5,646,096 | £5,963,978 | |
| Average employees | 310 | 271 | |
| Wages | £18,760,056 | £19,870,518 |
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 | 2.2% | 8.3% | |
| Net margin | 1.7% | 6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 13.1% | 50.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.75x | 1.78x | |
| Interest cover | 7.03x | 103.03x |
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
- Crowe U.K. 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
- CITYWIRE HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Russell Administration Ltd 1%
- Citywire Financial Publishers Ltd 1%
- Scratch Design Ltd 1%
- Citywire GmbH 1%
- Citywire PTE Ltd 1%
- Citywire Hong Kong 1%
- Citywire US LLC 1%
- Citywire SrL 1%
- Citywire PTY Limited 1%
- Citywire SAS 1%
Significant events
- “On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. To date, there has been no material long term change in the business. After reviewing and assessing the level of current activities and new project leads still coming in across all locations, the directors are confident that the pandemic will not have a material adverse effect on the Company and the going concern basis upon which the consolidated financial statements are based.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, George Robertson | Director | 2011-09-28 | Mar 1965 | British |
| COLLARD, Nicholas Stuart | Director | 2010-09-13 | Jun 1968 | British |
| DAWSON, Guy Neville | Director | 2014-09-01 | Apr 1953 | British |
| GUNDLE, Kevin Roy | Director | 2001-01-26 | Oct 1964 | South African,German |
| LEVER, Justin Lawrence | Director | 2001-01-23 | Jul 1957 | British |
| MOODY, Alison Jane | Director | 2019-04-16 | Feb 1970 | British |
| STACEY, Lloyd John | Director | 2025-09-29 | Apr 1977 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Gareth David | Director | 2017-10-02 | Sep 1974 | British |
| WOOD, Mark William | Director | 2001-01-26 | Mar 1952 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN, Jonathan Warren | Secretary | 2001-06-29 | 2003-03-06 |
| PATE, Carolyn | Secretary | 2016-10-10 | 2017-07-07 |
| QUICK, Graham Francis | Secretary | 2003-03-19 | 2016-03-31 |
| THOMAS, David James Leonard | Secretary | 2001-01-23 | 2001-06-29 |
| CLIFFORD CHANCE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-08-10 | 2001-01-23 |
| BALL, George Robertson | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2009-12-09 |
| BERWIN, Nicholas Mark | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2014-06-01 |
| CLARK, Abel | Director | 2008-05-01 | 2019-12-31 |
| COOK, Richard Anthony | Director | 2006-06-01 | 2011-01-03 |
| DERBYSHIRE, Laura Jane | Director | 2021-12-09 | 2023-11-30 |
| GREEN, Jonathan Warren | Director | 2001-06-29 | 2002-11-21 |
| HASSON, Marion | Director | 2003-11-13 | 2006-03-08 |
| LANDER, Richard Simon | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2025-09-29 |
| LAYTON, Matthew Robert | Nominee Director | 2000-08-10 | 2001-01-23 |
| MARK, David Alexander | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2004-12-31 |
| PEACE, Michael John | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2008-03-31 |
| REICHENBACH, Rolf Stefan | Director | 2017-04-13 | 2025-10-07 |
| RICHARDS, Martin Edgar | Nominee Director | 2000-08-10 | 2001-01-23 |
| TROTTER, Timothy Hugh Southcombe | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2003-09-12 |
| TURNER, David Conway | Director | 2001-01-26 | 2025-11-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 196 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-25 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-11-25 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-23 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2025-05-07 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2024-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-15 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2023-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 5
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
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Turnover
+6.8%
£42,555,436 £45,428,032
-
Cash
-13.1%
£6,306,648 £5,481,655
-
Net assets
+5.6%
£5,646,096 £5,963,978
-
Employees
-12.6%
310 271
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Operating profit
+298.7%
£950,431 £3,789,509
-
Profit before tax
+309.1%
£942,106 £3,854,042
-
Wages
+5.9%
£18,760,056 £19,870,518
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