VERIZON EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-30 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£584K
+114.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£2B
+46.4% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£509M
+2,508.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- VERIZON EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LIMITED 2006-03-20 → present
- MCI EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LIMITED 2003-08-22 → 2006-03-20
- WORLDCOM EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LIMITED 2002-07-18 → 2003-08-22
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Telecommunications median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,122,313 | £1,005,930 | |
| Operating profit | £1,104,522 | -£85,452,187 | |
| Profit before tax | £19,523,351 | £509,197,924 | |
| Net profit | £19,435,137 | £503,343,958 | |
| Cash | £272,053 | £584,136 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £1,083,904,374 | £1,587,248,332 | |
| Equity | £1,083,904,374 | £1,587,248,332 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 98.4% | -8494.8% | |
| Net margin | 1731.7% | 50037.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 58.6% | 39.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.22x | 1.84x | |
| Interest cover | 0.02x | -1.39x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. ... Based on the continuing operations, the directors have no reason to believe that a material uncertainty exists about the ability of the Company to ensure that it can meet its liabilities to third parties as they fall due and continue as a going concern for the period to 31 December 2026.”
Group structure
- VERIZON EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Verizon UK Limited 100%
- Verizon Nederland B.V. 100%
- Verizon Austria GmbH 100%
- Verizon Switzerland AG 100%
- NV Verizon Belgium Luxembourg S.A. 100%
- Verizon Spain S.L. 100%
- Verizon France SAS 100%
- Verizon Italia S.p.A 100%
- Verizon Czech s.r.o. 100%
- Verizon Ireland Limited 100%
- Verizon Norway AS 100%
- Verizon Finland Oy 100%
- Verizon Denmark A/S 100%
- Verizon Sweden Aktiebolag 100%
- Verizon Business Security Solutions Luxembourg SA 100%
- Verizon Polska Sp. Z.o.o. 100%
- Verizon Portugal Sociedade Unipessoal LDA 100%
- Verizon Hellas Telecommunications Telecommunications Single Member LLC 100%
- Verizon Hungary Telecommunication Telecommunications LLC 100%
Significant events
- “In June 2024, the Company received an interim dividend-in-specie from its wholly-owned subsidiary, Verizon UK Limited, of £527,254,678 ($671,302,843) satisfied by transfers of issued share capital of Verizon Ireland Limited, Verizon Norway AS, Verizon Sweden Aktiebolag, and intercompany balances.”
- “In June 2024, the Company received an interim dividend-in-specie from its wholly-owned subsidiary, Verizon Switzerland AG, of CHF71,857,089 ($79,549,529) satisfied by off-setting against part of a short-term receivable.”
- “The Company impaired its investment in Verizon UK Limited by $68,617,000 and its investment in Verizon Switzerland AG by $47,887,000 as a result of its annual impairment test.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOX COURT NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2003-07-18 | — | — |
| AITKENHEAD, Clare Brenda | Director | 2008-11-28 | Sep 1965 | British |
| DE MAIO, Francesco Cesare | Director | 2012-07-05 | Aug 1968 | Italian |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2002-07-18 | 2003-07-18 |
| COLE, Rory Owen | Director | 2003-07-18 | 2007-12-19 |
| GAILLARD, Dominique Jean-Loup | Director | 2008-08-29 | 2012-07-05 |
| KEARNS, Mark Fitzgerald Anthony | Director | 2006-07-26 | 2008-08-29 |
| SILLIMAN, Craig Livingston | Director | 2007-12-19 | 2008-11-28 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2002-07-18 | 2003-07-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verizon Uk Financing Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-11-30 | Active |
| Verizon Communications Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-11-30 |
| Verizon Business International Holdings B.V. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 143 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-12-16 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-01 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-05-24 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-05-24 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-05-24 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 2
- 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
-10.4%
£1,122,313 £1,005,930
-
Cash
+114.7%
£272,053 £584,136
-
Net assets
+46.4%
£1,083,904,374 £1,587,248,332
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-7,836.6%
£1,104,522 -£85,452,187
-
Profit before tax
+2,508.1%
£19,523,351 £509,197,924
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