HOLLYWOOD BOWL GROUP PLC
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-21 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£15M
-47% vs 2024
Net assets
£151M
-6.7% vs 2024
Employees
130
+1.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£39M
-5.1% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HOLLYWOOD BOWL GROUP PLC 2016-06-14 → present
- MARILYN PLC 2016-06-13 → 2016-06-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £230,422,000 | £250,739,000 | |
| Operating profit | £29,048,000 | £33,739,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £41,200,000 | £39,103,000 | |
| Net profit | £36,579,000 | £34,948,000 | |
| Cash | £28,702,000 | £15,199,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £166,487,000 | £156,235,000 | |
| Net assets | £162,205,000 | £151,288,000 | |
| Equity | £162,205,000 | £151,288,000 | |
| Average employees | 128 | 130 | |
| Wages | £48,004,000 | £53,682,000 |
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 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.6% | 13.5% | |
| Net margin | 15.9% | 13.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.4% | 21.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 36.0% | 33.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.76x | 0.51x | |
| Interest cover | 2.13x | 2.28x |
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 prepared the consolidated financial statements on the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- HOLLYWOOD BOWL GROUP PLC · parent
- Hollywood Bowl (B8) Limited 100%
- Hollywood Bowl Group Ireland Limited 100%
- Kandaluco Limited 100%
- Original Bowling Company (H8) Limited 100%
- HBG Scotland Limited 100%
- MA8LE Entertainment Limited 100%
- Hollywood Bowl (Canada) Group Limited 100%
- Rowleyates Limited 100%
- Hollywood Bowl (B12) Limited 100%
- Wessex Superbowl (Germany) Limited 100%
- Xtreme Bowling Entertainment Corporation 100%
- Striker Bowling Solutions Inc. 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERNWOOD COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2022-03-31 | — | — |
| ADDISON HORSLEY, Rachel Bernadette | Director | 2023-09-01 | May 1970 | British |
| BURNS, Stephen | Director | 2016-06-14 | Jan 1976 | British |
| DICKINSON, Melanie | Director | 2021-10-21 | Oct 1974 | British |
| HYDE, Asheeka Singh | Director | 2025-06-23 | Dec 1982 | British |
| PORTER, Julia Marguerite | Director | 2022-09-01 | Oct 1959 | British |
| SCHOFIELD, Ivan | Director | 2017-10-01 | Jan 1967 | British |
| SHAPLAND, Darren Mark | Director | 2024-12-01 | Nov 1966 | British |
| SMITH, Antony David | Director | 2026-02-02 | Sep 1974 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEEN, Laurence Brian | Secretary | 2016-06-14 | 2016-09-29 |
| MITRE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-06-13 | 2016-06-14 |
| PRISM COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-09-29 | 2022-03-31 |
| BACKHOUSE, Nicholas Paul | Director | 2016-06-14 | 2024-01-29 |
| BODDY, Peter Ashley | Director | 2016-06-13 | 2025-01-30 |
| KEEN, Laurence Brian | Director | 2016-06-14 | 2026-01-29 |
| PRIESTLEY, William De Bretton | Director | 2016-06-13 | 2017-04-07 |
| TINEY, Claire | Director | 2016-06-14 | 2023-01-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 167 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-02-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-04-28 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2026-04-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-02-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-05 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-11-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-30 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-21 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-08 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-10-01 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-10-01 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-09-23 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-09-18 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 14
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
+8.8%
£230,422,000 £250,739,000
-
Cash
-47%
£28,702,000 £15,199,000
-
Net assets
-6.7%
£162,205,000 £151,288,000
-
Employees
+1.6%
128 130
-
Operating profit
+16.1%
£29,048,000 £33,739,000
-
Profit before tax
-5.1%
£41,200,000 £39,103,000
-
Wages
+11.8%
£48,004,000 £53,682,000
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