SONY BB LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£69K
-69.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£836K
+151.3% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£3M
+3,077.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2024-05-16
- SONY BB LIMITED 2024-05-16 → present
- BLACK BUTTER LIMITED 2015-03-24 → 2024-05-16
- HACKNEY RECORDS LIMITED 2014-09-19 → 2015-03-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £8,985,782 | £5,055,224 | |
| Operating profit | £103,654 | £3,293,167 | |
| Profit before tax | £103,654 | £3,293,277 | |
| Net profit | £444,766 | £2,466,387 | |
| Cash | £228,591 | £69,121 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£1,630,067 | £836,320 | |
| Net assets | -£1,630,067 | £836,320 | |
| Equity | -£1,630,067 | £836,320 | |
| Average employees | 9 | — | |
| Wages | £1,062,884 | £124,156 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.2% | 65.1% | |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 48.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -6.4% | 393.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 223.4% | 49.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.45x | 2.01x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes that the Company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Directors have reviewed the Company's forecasts and projections, taking into account reasonably possible changes in trading performance, and are satisfied that the Company has adequate resources and ongoing support from its parent to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Significant events
- “Company name was changed from Black Butter Limited to Sony BB Limited on 16th May 2024.”
- “The Company was previously party to a joint venture arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, under which it was entitled to certain funding. This joint venture agreement concluded on 16 May 2024, when the Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ILEY, Jason Paul | Director | 2014-12-11 | Jan 1969 | British |
| SMITH, Michael Anthony | Director | 2014-12-11 | Mar 1959 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENKINS, Simon | Secretary | 2014-12-11 | 2024-06-27 |
| AMES, Roger | Director | 2014-09-19 | 2024-05-01 |
| LYCETT, Nicholas Richard Charles Geary | Director | 2014-09-19 | 2019-12-18 |
| VILLAGE, Henry Ryde Rowland | Director | 2014-09-19 | 2024-05-01 |
| WORKU, Joseph | Director | 2014-09-19 | 2024-05-01 |
| WORTHINGTON, Nicholas Fraser | Director | 2014-09-19 | 2024-03-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony Music Entertainment Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Hackney Records (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 55 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-05-16 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-14 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-16 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-05-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2023-09-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-43.7%
£8,985,782 £5,055,224
-
Cash
-69.8%
£228,591 £69,121
-
Net assets
+151.3%
-£1,630,067 £836,320
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+3,077.1%
£103,654 £3,293,167
-
Profit before tax
+3,077.2%
£103,654 £3,293,277
-
Wages
-88.3%
£1,062,884 £124,156
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