DESIGN ARC UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-10 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-26
Watchouts
Cash
£819K
+325.2% vs 2024
Net assets
-£2M
-479.1% vs 2024
Employees
43
+4.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-264.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £4,285,636 | £2,642,537 | |
| Operating profit | -£557,886 | -£2,107,671 | |
| Profit before tax | -£584,874 | -£2,132,815 | |
| Net profit | -£555,205 | -£1,956,722 | |
| Cash | £192,741 | £819,445 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,061,077 | -£986,224 | |
| Net assets | £456,150 | -£1,729,151 | |
| Equity | £456,150 | -£1,729,151 | |
| Average employees | 41 | 43 | |
| Wages | £2,667,154 | £2,428,426 |
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 | -13.0% | -79.8% | |
| Net margin | -13.0% | -74.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -52.6% | 213.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 85.6% | 127.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.11x | 0.60x | |
| Interest cover | -18.21x | -62.18x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- UHY Hacker Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors confirm that, having reviewed the group's forecasts, they consider that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- DESIGN ARC UK LIMITED · parent
- Lily and Lionel London Limited 100%
- Design Arc Brands Limited 100%
- Lillyandsid Limited 55%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHAGAT, Mehul Dhansukh | Secretary | 2025-12-31 | — | — |
| BANAIK, Anuj | Director | 2025-12-31 | Feb 1966 | British |
| KANODIA, Krishna | Director | 2025-12-31 | Aug 1974 | British |
| KANOI, Abhishekh | Director | 2022-04-26 | May 1983 | Indian |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANODIA, Krishna | Secretary | 2016-10-21 | 2025-12-31 |
| ARORA, Manish Kumar | Director | 2022-04-26 | 2025-12-31 |
| BURMAN, Deepak | Director | 2016-10-21 | 2022-04-26 |
| CHADHA, Rakesh | Director | 2016-10-21 | 2025-12-31 |
| SETH, Payel | Director | 2016-10-21 | 2022-04-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Payel Seth | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-10-21 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 36 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-18 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-02-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
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Turnover
-38.3%
£4,285,636 £2,642,537
-
Cash
+325.2%
£192,741 £819,445
-
Net assets
-479.1%
£456,150 -£1,729,151
-
Employees
+4.9%
41 43
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Operating profit
-277.8%
-£557,886 -£2,107,671
-
Profit before tax
-264.7%
-£584,874 -£2,132,815
-
Wages
-9%
£2,667,154 £2,428,426
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