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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-12 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£51K
-25.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£1M
+76.7% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£740K
+12.6% vs 2023
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 | £882,005 | £978,167 | |
| Operating profit | £656,835 | £739,564 | |
| Profit before tax | £656,835 | £739,564 | |
| Net profit | £502,344 | £554,673 | |
| Cash | £68,835 | £51,144 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £606,410 | £1,071,753 | |
| Net assets | £606,410 | £1,071,753 | |
| Equity | £606,410 | £1,071,753 | |
| 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 | 74.5% | 75.6% | |
| Net margin | 57.0% | 56.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 108.3% | 69.0% | |
| Current ratio | 5.89x | 8.14x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Indenture agreement between the Company and its parent provides support that all operating expenses incurred by the Company shall be paid by the parent. The Directors have assessed that Hi-Fi Music IP Issuer II L.P. has sufficient liquidity to provide this support.”
Significant events
- “On 21 February 2025, Deloitte LLP resigned as Auditor. On 21 February 2025, Ernst & Young was appointed as Auditor.”
- “On 27 June 2025, the Directors proposed and declared an interim dividend of $1,353,737. On the same date, the Directors proposed that the Company shall enter into a deed of waiver with its Parent Company pursuant to which the Company shall waive an amount of $1,353,737 owed to it by its Parent Company as an intercompany receivable. The waiver shall constitute a dividend distribution by the Company to its Parent Company.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHOUDARY, Waleed Zafar | Director | 2021-10-15 | Sep 1993 | British |
| MAPLESFS UK CORPORATE DIRECTOR NO.1 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2021-10-15 | — | — |
| MAPLESFS UK CORPORATE DIRECTOR NO.2 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2021-10-15 | — | — |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES, James Piers | Secretary | 2018-05-15 | 2019-03-18 |
| AHLSTROM, Johan | Director | 2018-05-15 | 2021-10-15 |
| CARRE, Jean-Charles Marcel Gerard | Director | 2009-10-22 | 2018-05-15 |
| DONOVAN, Thomas William | Director | 2020-04-22 | 2021-10-15 |
| FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES, James Piers | Director | 2018-05-15 | 2019-03-18 |
| WINCHESTER, Christiaan James | Director | 2019-03-19 | 2020-04-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hi-Fi Music Ip Issuer, L.P. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-10-15 | Ceased 2022-02-14 |
| Hi-Fi Uk Acquisition Co., Ltd. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-10-15 | Ceased 2021-10-15 |
| Kmr Ii Investment Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2018-05-15 | Ceased 2021-10-15 |
| Pierre David Guetta | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-05-15 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 77 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-02-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-02-21 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-12 | CH02 | officers | Change corporate director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-12 | CH02 | officers | Change corporate director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-09 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2023-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-06-23 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2022-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-02-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-02-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-02-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-01-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-12 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+10.9%
£882,005 £978,167
-
Cash
-25.7%
£68,835 £51,144
-
Net assets
+76.7%
£606,410 £1,071,753
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+12.6%
£656,835 £739,564
-
Profit before tax
+12.6%
£656,835 £739,564
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