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POTTERMORE LIMITED
Cash
£29M
+26.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+34.6% vs 2024
Employees
38
+18.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£17M
+50% vs 2024
Profile
- Company number
- 06979090
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 2009-08-04
- Last accounts made up
- 2025-03-31
- Account category
- FULL
- Primary SIC
- 62090
Profit before tax
7-year trend · vs UK AI & Enterprise SaaS median
Accounts
7-year trend · latest 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2019-03-31 | 2020-03-31 | 2021-03-31 | 2022-03-31 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | £11,435,000 | £17,151,000 | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | — | — | £8,589,000 | £12,872,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | — | — | £22,841,000 | £28,904,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | — | — | £3,673,000 | £4,945,000 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Equity | £12,894,000 | — | — | £4,880,000 | £5,999,000 | £3,673,000 | £4,945,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | 38 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | — | — | £1,686,000 | £1,729,000 |
Values shown as filed in iXBRL accounts. — indicates the figure was not present in the extracted filing (either not filed under that concept or absent from the period). About these numbers
Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- TC Group
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Subsidiaries
- Pottermore Inc. · 100% held · USA · Digital Entertainment
Significant events
- “The first full-cast English audiobook, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, launched on 4 November 2025 as part of our co-production with Audible. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets followed on 16 December 2025.”
- “In August, the Pocket Potters series was published by Bloomsbury in print and by Pottermore in eBook formats.”
- “In November 2025, we added Spotify to our list of distributors in the Scandinavian market, making the Harry Potter audiobook catalogue available to its subscribers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.”
- “From the Wizarding Archive launched in audio and eBook formats in Swedish and Danish in October 2025, with Dutch translations to follow in 2026.”
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
3 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLAIR, Neil Lyndon Marc | Director | 2009-08-04 | Sep 1966 | British |
| GREENE, Tom David | Director | 2017-05-01 | Dec 1988 | British |
| PHILLIPS, Jenny | Director | 2017-02-01 | Sep 1971 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAIR, Neil Lyndon Marc | Secretary | 2009-08-04 | 2013-11-20 |
| HILL, Jemma Victoria | Secretary | 2017-12-01 | 2018-04-01 |
| HUGHES, Louise | Secretary | 2018-04-01 | 2024-09-13 |
| SPIERS, Anouska Hamidah | Secretary | 2013-11-20 | 2017-11-30 |
| HILL, Jemma Victoria | Director | 2017-05-01 | 2026-02-20 |
| JUREVICS, Susan | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2017-02-24 |
| KAHAN, Barbara | Director | 2009-08-04 | 2009-08-04 |
| LITTLE, Christopher John | Director | 2009-08-04 | 2009-12-16 |
| MARKS, Dan | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2016-11-30 |
| SENAT, Eric Hartley | Director | 2011-05-06 | 2016-09-30 |
| SPIERS, Anouska Hamidah | Director | 2013-08-05 | 2017-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Joanne Kathleen Rowling | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 65 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-12-06 | TM02 | officers | termination secretary company with name termination date |
| 2024-08-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-08-15 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2024-07-01 | AD01 | address | change registered office address company with date old address new address |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2023-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-12-31 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-08-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2022-08-25 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2022-06-01 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2022-02-01 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2021-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2021-01-15 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2020-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2020-01-06 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2019-08-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
Credit score
Altman Z″ — composite of working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, and leverage
Activity Score
Filings velocity, capital events, officer churn, accounts trajectory