LIGHTBOX JEWELRY LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-28 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-14
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-52.2% vs 2023
Net assets
-£101M
-196.6% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£68M
+10.2% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
Together, these circumstances represent a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- LIGHTBOX JEWELRY LTD. 2018-05-03 → present
- DB NEWCO LIMITED 2017-09-15 → 2018-05-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,369,904 | £30,769,459 | |
| Operating profit | -£66,100,074 | -£55,794,663 | |
| Profit before tax | -£75,141,586 | -£67,513,714 | |
| Net profit | -£75,141,586 | -£67,513,714 | |
| Cash | £4,111,193 | £1,965,901 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£34,146,775 | £83,751,668 | |
| Net assets | -£34,146,775 | -£101,294,292 | |
| Equity | -£34,146,775 | -£101,294,292 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| 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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -250.7% | -181.3% | |
| Net margin | -285.0% | -219.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 193.6% | -66.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 127.2% | 196.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.22x | 0.67x | |
| Interest cover | -7.31x | -4.76x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“Together, these circumstances represent a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- LIGHTBOX JEWELRY LTD. · parent
- Lightbox Jewelry Inc. 1%
Significant events
- “In May 2025, De Beers announced its decision to close the Lightbox business as part of the wider Origins strategy. Since that announcement, the Directors have overseen the orderly wind-down of operational activities, including the cessation of new trading, the fulfilment of outstanding customer commitments, and the realisation of working capital balances such as inventory and receivables.”
- “Subsequent to 31 December 2024, the Company paid down $64,512,483 on its intercompany loan facility, and ultimately De Beers UK Limited waived the intercompany loan of $185,114,067 on 4th December 2025.”
- “On 12 November 2025, the Company formally released the recipient company and the Directors from any claim the Company may have for repayment.”
- “In addition to the waiver of the intercompany loan referenced above, the Company undertook a capital reduction on 08 December 2025 by special resolution supported by a solvency statement in accordance with the Companies Act s.641. 104,666,766 GBP £1 ordinary shares were cancelled, leaving one share outstanding. The share premium reserve was reduced to nil.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE BEERS CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-07-01 | — | — |
| CHAN, Jeffrey | Director | 2025-11-18 | Feb 1987 | Australian |
| SWANIKER-TETTEY, Susanne Naa Okailey | Director | 2025-11-18 | Oct 1974 | Botswanan |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGLO AMERICAN CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-05-11 | 2023-05-01 |
| BORDE, Antoine Pierre Charles | Director | 2023-03-09 | 2025-07-31 |
| COE, Steven Edward | Director | 2017-12-15 | 2022-07-28 |
| LUSSIER, Stephen Christopher | Director | 2017-09-15 | 2023-10-06 |
| MOSTYN, Gareth | Director | 2017-09-15 | 2017-12-22 |
| O'GRADY, Adam Derek | Director | 2024-09-01 | 2025-11-17 |
| PERRY, Ryan Laurence William | Director | 2022-11-30 | 2024-06-30 |
| VAGHJIANI, Rasila Hirji | Director | 2023-10-09 | 2024-03-01 |
| VENTURA, Neil Jason | Director | 2017-12-15 | 2022-11-30 |
| WILES, Juliet Diana | Director | 2022-11-30 | 2024-02-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Beers Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-09-15 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-15 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-12-15 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-15 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
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Turnover
+16.7%
£26,369,904 £30,769,459
-
Cash
-52.2%
£4,111,193 £1,965,901
-
Net assets
-196.6%
-£34,146,775 -£101,294,292
-
Employees
—
Not reported
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Operating profit
+15.6%
-£66,100,074 -£55,794,663
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Profit before tax
+10.2%
-£75,141,586 -£67,513,714
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