SIMBA SMOBY TOYS (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-10 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£40K
+132.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
+0.6% vs 2024
Employees
23
-4.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£29K
-93.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SIMBA SMOBY TOYS (UK) LIMITED 2009-08-25 → present
- TRADE DISTANCE LIMITED 2009-07-27 → 2009-08-25
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,237,670 | £18,264,429 | |
| Operating profit | £665,722 | £255,609 | |
| Profit before tax | £432,986 | £29,196 | |
| Net profit | £308,890 | £10,840 | |
| Cash | £17,027 | £39,513 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,937,116 | £2,046,286 | |
| Net assets | £1,763,001 | £1,773,841 | |
| Equity | £1,763,001 | £1,773,841 | |
| Average employees | 24 | 23 | |
| Wages | £1,041,236 | £1,154,706 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.4% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 34.4% | 12.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 82.2% | 83.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 0.93x | |
| Interest cover | 2.86x | 1.10x |
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
- Rödl & Partner Ltd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. In the opinion of the directors, the company has sufficient financial resources to trade at its forecast level of business activity for the foreseeable future.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUSCHL, Moritz | Director | 2025-04-30 | Nov 1987 | German |
| WEILER, Uwe | Director | 2009-08-10 | Sep 1959 | German |
| WHITAKER, Martin | Director | 2020-07-01 | Apr 1974 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELFORD, Anthony | Director | 2009-08-04 | 2020-04-30 |
| BELFORD, Richard Adam | Director | 2014-02-01 | 2020-02-29 |
| DUSCHL, Manfred | Director | 2009-08-10 | 2025-04-30 |
| ROUND, Jonathon Charles | Director | 2009-07-27 | 2009-08-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony Belford | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-07-27 | Ceased 2020-04-30 |
| Simba Toys Gmbh & Co Kg | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors, Significant influence | 2016-07-27 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 51 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-07-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-05-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-05-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
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Turnover
+19.9%
£15,237,670 £18,264,429
-
Cash
+132.1%
£17,027 £39,513
-
Net assets
+0.6%
£1,763,001 £1,773,841
-
Employees
-4.2%
24 23
-
Operating profit
-61.6%
£665,722 £255,609
-
Profit before tax
-93.3%
£432,986 £29,196
-
Wages
+10.9%
£1,041,236 £1,154,706
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