IMS BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-30 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-16
Watchouts
Cash
£2K
0% vs 2022
Net assets
-£3M
+10.7% vs 2022
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2023-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- IMS BIDCO LIMITED 2016-04-12 → present
- AGHOCO 1397 LIMITED 2016-03-17 → 2016-04-12
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£17,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£204,000 | — | |
| Net profit | -£204,000 | — | |
| Cash | £2,000 | £2,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£3,850,000 | -£3,439,000 | |
| Net assets | -£3,850,000 | -£3,439,000 | |
| Equity | -£3,850,000 | -£3,439,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| 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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 0.4% | — | |
| Current ratio | 0.06x | 0.06x | |
| Interest cover | -0.09x | — |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis. The ultimate parent company has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the company to meet its liabilities as they fall due. The directors believe it is appropriate to prepare financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- IMS BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Concentia Capital Limited 100%
- Imagesound Limited 100%
- MusicStyling.com Limited 100%
- Imagesound Inc 100%
- TSG Media Limited 100%
- Shanghai Imagesound Music Consultancy Limited 100%
- Imagesound Middle East DWC-LLC 100%
- Ideal Music Media Limited 100%
- Imagesound Retail Music & Media Limited 100%
- Muzak UK Limited 100%
- Ideal Music Communications Limited 100%
- Rolec Limited 100%
- TSC Music Systems Limited 100%
- KVH Media Group Entertainment Limited 100%
- G.M.S. (Recordings) Limited 100%
- Open Ear Limited 100%
- Radiopark GmbH & Co. KG 100%
- Radiopark Middle East FZ-LLC 100%
Significant events
- “During the prior year the wider group was re-financed and in April 2022 Livingbridge EP LLP acquired a majority shareholding in IMS Topco Limited (the company's previous ultimate parent company).”
- “The company did not trade externally during this year as it acts as an intermediary holding company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOVE, Sarah Anne | Director | 2023-04-06 | May 1973 | British |
| DOWNING, Terry William | Director | 2025-03-28 | Jun 1965 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-03-17 | 2016-04-12 |
| COOK, Neil Robert, Dr | Director | 2017-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
| FOSTER, Mark | Director | 2016-07-05 | 2017-08-14 |
| HART, Roger | Director | 2016-03-17 | 2016-04-12 |
| HAYHURST, John Andrew | Director | 2016-04-12 | 2022-04-11 |
| MAPP, Derek | Director | 2016-04-29 | 2022-04-11 |
| TRUMAN, William John | Director | 2016-04-29 | 2023-04-06 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2016-03-17 | 2016-04-12 |
| INHOCO FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2016-03-17 | 2016-04-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ims Midco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2021-01-02 | Active |
| Eci Partners Llp | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-01-02 |
| Eci 10 Gp Limited | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-01-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 62 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-05-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-21 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-03-03 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-05-13 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-05-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-13 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-05-13 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-05-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-05-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-14 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-05 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2025-01-28 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2024-10-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 3
- 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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
0%
£2,000 £2,000
-
Net assets
+10.7%
-£3,850,000 -£3,439,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
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