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SUMO GROUP LIMITED
Profile
- Company number
- 11071913
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 2017-11-20
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-12-31
- Account category
- GROUP
- Primary SIC
- 62011
Accounts
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Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated (group)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors expect the Group to have sufficient income and cash resources to fund operations at least until 30 September 2026. The directors have reviewed the forecasts for this period and consider them to be achievable given the history of realisation of such revenues in line with contracted milestones and business development pipeline.”
Subsidiaries
- Project Republica Topco Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Holding Group
- Project Republica Bidco Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Holding Group
- Sumo Digital Holdings Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Holding Group
- Sumo Digital Group Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Holding Group
- Sumo Digital Entertainment Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Holding Group
- Sumo Digital Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Sumo Digital (Genus) Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Cirrus Development Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Aghoco 1337 Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Dormant (formerly trustee of employee benefit trust)
- Mistral Entertainment Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Sumo Video Games Private Limited · 100% held · India · Video game development
- Sumo Games Development Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Atomhawk Design Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Visual design
- Sapphire Remainco Limited (Formerly The Chinese Room Limited) · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Riverside Games Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Sumo Digital (Chili) Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Sumo Digital (Locus) Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Red Kite Games Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Red Kite Software Development Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Lab42 Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- Auroch Digital (Coco) Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- AGHOCO 1952 Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Dormant
- Secret Mode Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game publishing
- Pacman Finco Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Financing Group
- Auroch Digital Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
- PixelAnt Games sp. Z.o.o. · 100% held · Poland · Video game development
- Sumo Digital s.r.o (Formerly PixelAnt Games (Czech Republic) s.r.o) · 100% held · Czech Republic · Video game development
- Sumo Digital Canada Ltd. · 100% held · Canada · Video game development
- Midoki Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · Video game development
Significant events
- “In February 2025 the Group announced a restructuring exercise to refocus the Group's efforts on its core development studios. This transition impacted a number of studios and people across the Group.”
- “The Group divested its publishing business, Secret Mode, in February 2025.”
- “The Group divested two development studios which focussed on self funded own-IP projects, Auroch Digital in April 2025 and The Chinese Room in June 2025.”
- “The Group closed its studio in Poland, Pixelant Games, in June 2025.”
- “The Group also made reductions to its remaining global workforce in central shared services and in some studios.”
- “These changes resulted in net estimated exceptional restructuring costs of film, and an overall reduction in Group headcount of approximately 36%.”
- “In May 2025, the Group announced a planned leadership transition as its co-founders Carl Cavers (CEO), Paul Porter (COO) and Darren Mills retired after 22 years of leading the business. Gary Dunn assumed the role of COO and together with the Group's CFO, Andy Stewart, they have assumed the duties and responsibilities of the co-CEO role. Tim Repa-Davies moved onto the Group's Board of Directors, continuing his role as Group General Counsel and Head of Legal and Business Affairs.”
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People
8 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REPA-DAVIES, Tim | Secretary | 2022-10-19 | — | — |
| CHAN, Eddie Tak Ho | Director | 2022-04-28 | Sep 1978 | Kittitian |
| DUNN, Gary Stuart | Director | 2025-05-30 | Mar 1969 | British |
| LI, Yan | Director | 2022-04-28 | Oct 1979 | American |
| NING, Chris | Director | 2022-04-28 | Mar 1983 | Chinese |
| REPA-DAVIES, Timothy Alan Garner | Director | 2025-05-30 | Sep 1986 | British |
| STEWART, Andrew Martin Douglas | Director | 2022-09-01 | Feb 1983 | British |
| ZHOU, Song | Director | 2025-07-29 | Nov 1978 | Hong Konger |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, Steven | Secretary | 2017-12-01 | 2022-10-19 |
| BEATY, Kenneth Robert | Director | 2017-11-20 | 2019-09-26 |
| CAVERS, Carl | Director | 2017-11-20 | 2025-05-30 |
| DUNSTAN, Andrea Margaret | Director | 2018-09-24 | 2022-01-17 |
| LIU, Michelle | Director | 2022-04-28 | 2025-07-29 |
| LIVINGSTONE, Ian, Sir | Director | 2017-11-20 | 2022-01-17 |
| PORTER, Paul Reginald | Director | 2019-04-09 | 2025-05-30 |
| SHERWIN, Michael | Director | 2017-12-21 | 2022-01-17 |
| SHERWIN, Michael | Director | 2017-11-20 | 2017-11-21 |
| WILTON, David Charles | Director | 2017-11-20 | 2022-09-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perwyn Bidco (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-12-21 | Ceased 2017-12-21 |
| Perwyn Bidco (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-12-13 | Ceased 2019-11-15 |
| Mr Carl Cavers | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-11-20 | Ceased 2017-12-12 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 141 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-09-25 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2025-07-31 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-07-31 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-06-03 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-06-03 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-06-03 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-11-03 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2023-12-01 | AAMD | accounts | accounts amended with accounts type group |
| 2023-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2023-11-20 | AD04 | address | move registers to registered office company with new address |
| 2023-10-20 | MR04 | mortgage | mortgage satisfy charge full |
| 2023-10-20 | MR04 | mortgage | mortgage satisfy charge full |
| 2023-10-20 | MR04 | mortgage | mortgage satisfy charge full |
| 2023-10-15 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2022-11-24 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | second filing of confirmation statement with made up date |
| 2022-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement |
| 2022-10-20 | AP03 | officers | appoint person secretary company with name date |
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