IMMEDIATE MEDIA COMPANY LONDON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-07 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
+59.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£100M
+9.1% vs 2023
Employees
629
-3.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£11M
-36.5% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- IMMEDIATE MEDIA COMPANY LONDON LIMITED 2011-11-01 → present
- BBC MAGAZINES LIMITED 2007-03-28 → 2011-11-01
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 | £153,693,000 | £151,292,000 | |
| Operating profit | £14,102,000 | £12,426,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £17,763,000 | £11,279,000 | |
| Net profit | £13,180,000 | £8,347,000 | |
| Cash | £5,513,000 | £8,770,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £137,634,000 | £125,393,000 | |
| Net assets | £91,843,000 | £100,190,000 | |
| Equity | £91,843,000 | £100,190,000 | |
| Average employees | 652 | 629 | |
| Wages | £33,078,000 | £36,271,000 |
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 | 9.2% | 8.2% | |
| Net margin | 8.6% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.2% | 9.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.6% | 53.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.26x | 1.41x | |
| Interest cover | 5.07x | 3.60x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company as a whole have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in the financial statements.”
Group structure
- IMMEDIATE MEDIA COMPANY LONDON LIMITED · parent
- Immediate Media TV Limited 1%
- Immediate Media Company Pte Singapore Limited 1%
- Diamond Newco Limited 1%
- Immediate Live Limited 1%
- Genealogy Events Limited 1%
- Immediate Media Company Australia PTY Limited 1%
- Nutratech Ltd 1%
Significant events
- “During the year, the remaining minority interest shares in Nutratech Limited were purchased by the Company for £16.3 million. (Note 16)”
- “Radio Times launched a new App, "Radio Times - What to watch". The Company considers this to be a very exciting new proposition. The App is a trusted guide for customers, making it quicker and easier for them to find what they want to watch and making reliable recommendations in what is now a complicated landscape of content and on-demand content providers.”
- “Our Media Limited concluded as a related party on 26 October 2023.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONLON, Katherine | Secretary | 2011-10-31 | — | British |
| CONSTANDA, Dan | Director | 2020-02-13 | May 1970 | British |
| CORNWELL, Sean Enrico | Director | 2023-11-24 | Oct 1974 | British |
| LAVIN, Stephen James | Director | 2011-12-19 | Apr 1970 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORRIETTE, Anthony | Secretary | 2010-07-23 | 2011-10-31 |
| EARL, Jane | Secretary | 2009-05-20 | 2010-07-24 |
| STEVENSON, James David | Secretary | 2007-03-28 | 2009-04-30 |
| BRETT, Nicholas Richard John | Director | 2011-07-22 | 2011-10-31 |
| BUREAU, Thomas Pierre | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
| LANGFORD, Kevin Donald | Director | 2007-03-28 | 2020-02-13 |
| PHIPPEN, Peter Sangster | Director | 2007-03-28 | 2011-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate Media Company Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 90 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-06-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-02-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-02-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-1.6%
£153,693,000 £151,292,000
-
Cash
+59.1%
£5,513,000 £8,770,000
-
Net assets
+9.1%
£91,843,000 £100,190,000
-
Employees
-3.5%
652 629
-
Operating profit
-11.9%
£14,102,000 £12,426,000
-
Profit before tax
-36.5%
£17,763,000 £11,279,000
-
Wages
+9.7%
£33,078,000 £36,271,000
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