VANCOUVER TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-27 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£13M
+49.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
-36.5% vs 2023
Employees
725
-3.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£13M
+184.5% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- VANCOUVER TOPCO LIMITED 2011-07-12 → present
- DE FACTO 1865 LIMITED 2011-05-13 → 2011-07-12
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 | £182,019,000 | £180,515,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,825,000 | £14,296,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,492,000 | £12,779,000 | |
| Net profit | -£1,074,000 | £8,540,000 | |
| Cash | £8,463,000 | £12,660,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £60,719,000 | £35,465,000 | |
| Net assets | £16,077,000 | £10,206,000 | |
| Equity | £16,077,000 | £10,206,000 | |
| Average employees | 753 | 725 | |
| Wages | £38,151,000 | £41,907,000 |
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 | 1.6% | 7.9% | |
| Net margin | -0.6% | 4.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.7% | 40.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.77x | 0.64x | |
| Interest cover | 0.65x | 3.62x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and 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
- VANCOUVER TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Immediate Media Company Limited 100%
- Immediate Media Company London Limited 100%
- Immediate Media TV Limited 100%
- Diamond Newco Limited 100%
- Mumdrum Limited 100%
- Hitched PTY Limited 100%
- Immediate Media Company Australia PTY Limited 100%
- Immediate Media Company Pte Singapore Limited 100%
- Immediate Live Limited 100%
- Upper Street Events Limited 100%
- Escape Events Limited 100%
- Value Added Events Limited 100%
- River Street Media Limited 100%
- River Street Events Limited 100%
- Nutratech Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the year, Immediate Media Company London Limited, a subsidiary of the Company purchased the remaining minority interest in Nutratech Limited for total consideration of £16.3 million.”
- “On 25 October 2024, Immediate Media Company London Limited, an indirect subsidiary of the Company, acquired the remaining 19.3% of the issued share capital of Nutratech Limited, increasing its ownership from 80.7% to 100%. Total consideration of the transaction was £16.3 million.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONLON, Katherine | Secretary | 2012-01-25 | — | — |
| CONSTANDA, Dan | Director | 2020-02-13 | May 1970 | British |
| CORNWELL, Sean Enrico | Director | 2023-11-24 | Oct 1974 | British |
| WACHTEL, Jan | Director | 2026-01-26 | Aug 1979 | German |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAVERS SMITH SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2011-05-13 | 2011-07-07 |
| ALEXANDER, Stephen Harold | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2017-01-11 |
| BOLLMANN, Hans-Eckart Gerhard, Dr | Director | 2017-01-11 | 2017-11-10 |
| BOWER, Oliver Bradley | Director | 2011-08-02 | 2017-01-11 |
| BRACKEN, Ruth | Director | 2011-05-13 | 2011-07-07 |
| BUREAU, Thomas Pierre | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
| GRAHAM, Christopher Michael | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2017-01-11 |
| GRAY, Bernard Peter, Sir | Director | 2012-08-30 | 2017-01-11 |
| LANGFORD, Kevin Donald | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2020-02-13 |
| LENANE, James Richard St John | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2017-01-11 |
| PHIPPEN, Peter Sangster | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2017-01-11 |
| WEISS, Martin | Director | 2017-01-11 | 2024-01-16 |
| WELTE, Philipp | Director | 2018-10-15 | 2026-01-21 |
| TRAVERS SMITH LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2011-05-13 | 2011-07-07 |
| TRAVERS SMITH SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2011-05-13 | 2011-07-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Hubert Dietrich Burda | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-01-11 | Active |
| Exponent Private Equity Flp Gp Ii Llp | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-01-11 |
| Exponent Private Equity Flp Gp Llp | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-01-11 |
| Exponent Private Equity Partners Gp Of Gp Llp | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-01-11 |
| Exponent Private Equity Llp | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-01-11 |
| Exponent Private Equity Partners Gp Of Gp Ii Llp | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-01-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 102 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-18 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2022-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-06-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-0.8%
£182,019,000 £180,515,000
-
Cash
+49.6%
£8,463,000 £12,660,000
-
Net assets
-36.5%
£16,077,000 £10,206,000
-
Employees
-3.7%
753 725
-
Operating profit
+406.1%
£2,825,000 £14,296,000
-
Profit before tax
+184.5%
£4,492,000 £12,779,000
-
Wages
+9.8%
£38,151,000 £41,907,000
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