LOMO TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-29
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-17.4% vs 2023
Net assets
-£24M
-123.4% vs 2023
Employees
1,100
-7.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£15M
-95.3% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-29
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £75,139,000 | £72,541,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£2,352,000 | -£8,689,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£7,427,000 | -£14,504,000 | |
| Net profit | -£7,341,000 | -£13,339,000 | |
| Cash | £3,756,000 | £3,101,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,857,000 | £28,313,000 | |
| Net assets | -£10,813,000 | -£24,152,000 | |
| Equity | -£10,813,000 | -£24,152,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,190 | 1,100 | |
| Wages | £24,565,000 | £23,605,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.1% | -12.0% | |
| Net margin | -9.8% | -18.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -26.6% | -30.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.28x | 0.69x | |
| Interest cover | -0.46x | -1.49x |
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
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that the financial statements should be prepared under the going concern basis. In reaching this decision they have considered current trading conditions, forecast cash flows to 31 December 2026, potential risks to those cash flows and key assumptions, various downside scenarios, the facilities availa”
Group structure
- LOMO TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Lomo Midco Limited 100%
- Rare Restaurants Ltd 100%
- Gioma (UK) Limited 100%
- MW Restaurants Limited 100%
- MW Restaurants (Social) Limited 100%
- MW Wine Store Online Limited 100%
- MW Restaurants (Canary Wharf) Limited 100%
- Gaucho Licensing Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Group closed its two remaining non-Gaucho branded restaurants on 19 May 2025. Following this, on 6 June 2025, the Directors voluntarily appointed a liquidator with the intention of winding up MW Restaurants Limited and its subsidiaries.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERISHA, Baton | Director | 2025-04-04 | Jul 1981 | British |
| BETZ, Gregory Heinz | Director | 2018-12-18 | Mar 1980 | British,South African |
| CAMPBELL, David Lachlan | Director | 2024-05-06 | Sep 1959 | British |
| CRAMER, Stephen John | Director | 2021-10-12 | Dec 1965 | British |
| HART, Victoria Sian | Director | 2018-08-30 | Sep 1974 | British |
| LOWY, Michel | Director | 2024-02-28 | Jul 1970 | Belgian |
| TORR, Steve Eric | Director | 2018-08-30 | Apr 1974 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKETT, David | Director | 2020-10-06 | 2021-03-17 |
| BUTLER, Ross Michael | Director | 2019-07-26 | 2025-06-02 |
| HALL, Vanessa Claire | Director | 2022-08-22 | 2024-05-01 |
| HOWSON, Timothy Guy | Director | 2018-08-30 | 2018-12-18 |
| KOTTLER, James Richard | Director | 2019-04-03 | 2019-08-08 |
| LOWY, Michel | Director | 2018-08-30 | 2020-10-06 |
| MANN, Gary Stephen | Director | 2019-08-20 | 2022-05-15 |
| MITCHELL, Jamie Matthew | Director | 2021-05-28 | 2024-05-01 |
| REVILL, Richard Stuart | Director | 2021-03-17 | 2024-02-28 |
| WILLIAMS, Martin James | Director | 2019-04-03 | 2024-10-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Michel Lowy | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2018-08-30 | Active |
| Investec Bank Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2018-08-30 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 66 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-02-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-02-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-02-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-29 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-3.5%
£75,139,000 £72,541,000
-
Cash
-17.4%
£3,756,000 £3,101,000
-
Net assets
-123.4%
-£10,813,000 -£24,152,000
-
Employees
-7.6%
1,190 1,100
-
Operating profit
-269.4%
-£2,352,000 -£8,689,000
-
Profit before tax
-95.3%
-£7,427,000 -£14,504,000
-
Wages
-3.9%
£24,565,000 £23,605,000
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