OCEAN MEDIA (TOPCO) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-22 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£7M
+479.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£980K
+1,095.1% vs 2023
Employees
73
-7.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-37.6% 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 | £15,694,000 | £14,230,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,995,000 | £1,853,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,596,000 | £1,620,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,696,000 | £898,000 | |
| Cash | £1,184,000 | £6,857,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,476,000 | £9,145,000 | |
| Net assets | £82,000 | £980,000 | |
| Equity | £82,000 | £980,000 | |
| Average employees | 79 | 73 | |
| Wages | £3,966,000 | £3,854,000 |
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 | 19.1% | 13.0% | |
| Net margin | 10.8% | 6.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 202.9% | 20.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 99.0% | 93.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.34x | 1.83x | |
| Interest cover | 7.51x | 7.95x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have considered the financial position of the company and the group, as well as the group's forecast for the period to 31 December 2027 and concluded that it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- OCEAN MEDIA (TOPCO) LIMITED · parent
- Ocean Media (Bidco) Limited 100%
- Farraige Media Limited 100%
- Ocean Media Holdings Limited 100%
- Ocean Media Events Limited 100%
- Ocean Media Group Limited 100%
- Ocean Media Exhibitions Limited 100%
- Venues and Events Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The company made a capital distrubution of £7m to shareholders in February 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASSIDY, Declan | Director | 2020-01-01 | Mar 1968 | Irish |
| EVANS, Benjamin Russell | Director | 2021-06-15 | Jul 1977 | British |
| FINEGAN, Ross Arthur | Director | 2017-04-05 | Aug 1969 | Irish |
| MORAN, David John | Director | 2015-10-17 | Jun 1954 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGHOUSE, Robert Andrew | Director | 2020-01-01 | 2024-10-28 |
| DARGAN, Alan Raymond | Director | 2015-10-09 | 2017-04-05 |
| KNOTT, James Andrew Samuel | Director | 2015-10-09 | 2021-06-15 |
| MILLER, Matthew Leslie | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2020-01-01 |
| WATT, David John | Director | 2015-10-17 | 2017-01-02 |
| WILLIAMSON, Ben John | Director | 2017-04-19 | 2019-12-31 |
| WILLOUGHBY, Tim Michael | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2019-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lonsdale Capital Partners Llp | Corporate entity | significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Lonsdale Capital Partners Gp Llp | Corporate entity | significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 81 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-07-19 MA Memorandum articles
- 2021-07-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-14 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-02-14 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-02-14 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-02-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-09-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-07-19 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-07-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- 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
-9.3%
£15,694,000 £14,230,000
-
Cash
+479.1%
£1,184,000 £6,857,000
-
Net assets
+1,095.1%
£82,000 £980,000
-
Employees
-7.6%
79 73
-
Operating profit
-38.1%
£2,995,000 £1,853,000
-
Profit before tax
-37.6%
£2,596,000 £1,620,000
-
Wages
-2.8%
£3,966,000 £3,854,000
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