HOTWIRE PUBLIC RELATIONS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-03-06
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£181K
-51.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£156K
-85.7% vs 2024
Employees
49
-9.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£946K
-305.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-03-06.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
However, due to the transfer of operations and the dissolution, the going concern basis of accounting is no longer appropriate. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HOTWIRE PUBLIC RELATIONS LIMITED 2007-09-05 → present
- NORTH BY NORTHWEST GROUP LIMITED 2007-02-20 → 2007-09-05
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,568,656 | £11,409,364 | |
| Operating profit | £171,203 | -£609,312 | |
| Profit before tax | -£233,302 | -£945,813 | |
| Net profit | -£233,302 | -£937,799 | |
| Cash | £375,407 | £180,760 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,223,901 | £922,753 | |
| Net assets | £1,094,135 | £156,336 | |
| Equity | £1,094,135 | £156,336 | |
| Average employees | 54 | 49 | |
| Wages | £3,488,301 | £3,450,337 |
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.4% | -5.3% | |
| Net margin | -1.9% | -8.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.7% | -66.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.45x | 0.41x | |
| Interest cover | 0.97x | -6.75x |
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
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“However, due to the transfer of operations and the dissolution, the going concern basis of accounting is no longer appropriate. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern.”
Significant events
- “The Board of Directors executed an agreement with its immediate parent company, The Hotwire Public Relations Group Limited, to merge operations, assets, and liabilities effective 1 July 2025. This transaction will be implemented as a merger by absorption in accordance with Part 27, Chapter 2 of the Companies Act 2006. Under this arrangement, the Company will transfer all its assets and liabilities to the immediate parent. Following completion of the transfer, the Company will be dissolved without undergoing a winding-up process.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, Ian Jonathan | Director | 2026-03-11 | Dec 1962 | Australian |
| HUTCHINSON, William Losh | Director | 2025-07-15 | Apr 1980 | American |
| ROWDEN, Ian | Director | 2024-12-12 | Sep 1959 | Australian |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORREALE, Tony | Secretary | 2012-01-11 | 2016-01-19 |
| TALBOT, Adrian, Mr. | Secretary | 2016-05-06 | 2023-08-01 |
| WILSON, John Laurence Anthony Ashley | Secretary | 2007-02-20 | 2012-01-11 |
| YORK, Brendan | Secretary | 2009-07-10 | 2021-03-15 |
| ARNOLD, Virginia | Director | 2008-06-19 | 2008-12-31 |
| BAILEY, Matthew William | Director | 2009-07-10 | 2010-03-31 |
| BENVIE, Drew | Director | 2008-06-19 | 2008-12-31 |
| BICKMORE, Brian Lindsay | Director | 2011-02-16 | 2012-10-25 |
| CRAIGIE, Brendon | Director | 2010-01-12 | 2017-03-22 |
| HIGGINS, Louise | Director | 2024-12-12 | 2026-03-11 |
| KERNAHAN, Heather | Director | 2025-02-18 | 2025-07-15 |
| LUCAS, Jeremy | Director | 2023-08-01 | 2025-02-18 |
| MACLAVERTY, Alex | Director | 2008-06-19 | 2019-02-07 |
| MCLEAN, Scott Nicholas Ludlow | Director | 2008-06-19 | 2010-02-12 |
| MELHUISH, Matthew Simon | Director | 2012-10-11 | 2019-12-23 |
| PEDDY, Giles Simon | Director | 2009-11-01 | 2013-03-22 |
| SCRIMSHAW, Brentley James | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2024-12-12 |
| SYLTEVIK, Kristin Elisabeth | Director | 2007-02-20 | 2012-07-23 |
| TALBOT, Adrian Robert | Director | 2019-03-11 | 2023-08-01 |
| WEBB-SEAR, Carla | Director | 2021-09-13 | 2024-12-12 |
| WEST, Andrew Jeremy Holdsworth | Director | 2009-02-10 | 2009-12-31 |
| YORK, Brendan | Director | 2019-02-07 | 2021-03-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hotwire Public Relations Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 98 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-07 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
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Turnover
-9.2%
£12,568,656 £11,409,364
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Cash
-51.8%
£375,407 £180,760
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Net assets
-85.7%
£1,094,135 £156,336
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Employees
-9.3%
54 49
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Operating profit
-455.9%
£171,203 -£609,312
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Profit before tax
-305.4%
-£233,302 -£945,813
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Wages
-1.1%
£3,488,301 £3,450,337
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