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Next accounts due

2026-10-31 (in 5mo)

Last filed for 2025-01-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-11-04 (in 6mo)

Last made up 2025-10-21

Watchouts

2 items

Cash

£4M

+5.2% vs 2024

Net assets

£3M

+11.3% vs 2024

Employees

128

-5.2% vs 2024

Profit before tax

£549K

-22.1% vs 2024

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31

Metric Trend 2024-01-312025-01-31
Turnover £18,686,528£17,826,248
Operating profit £682,478£492,289
Profit before tax £705,052£549,392
Net profit £491,089£321,555
Cash £3,562,487£3,746,270
Total assets less current liabilities £3,923,410£3,254,193
Net assets £2,845,314£3,166,869
Equity £2,845,314£3,166,869
Average employees 135128
Wages £4,641,681£4,679,712

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 2024-01-312025-01-31
Operating margin 3.7%2.8%
Net margin 2.6%1.8%
Return on capital employed 17.4%15.1%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 68.0%62.5%
Current ratio 1.15x1.11x
Interest cover 17.06x24.61x

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
Cooper Parry Group Limited
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Material uncertainty disclosed

“We draw attention to note 2.1 to the financial statements which explains that the directors have made the decision for the company to cease trading and become dormant. Therefore, we do not consider it to be appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. Accordingly the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other that going concern as described in note 2.1. Our opinion is not modified in this respect.”

Group structure

  1. IF INVESTMENTS (HORNCASTLE) LIMITED · parent
    1. Mortons Media Group Holdings Limited 75% · England and Wales · Dormant holding company
    2. Mortons Media Group Limited 100% · England and Wales · Printing for the media sector, publishing periodicals and running exhibitions

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

1 active · 1 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
WRIGHT, Stephen Director 2025-03-21 Apr 1969 British
Show 1 resigned officer
Name Role Appointed Resigned
FISHER, Ian David Director 2019-10-24 2025-03-27

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Mr Stephen Wright Individual Shares 75–100% 2025-03-27 Active
Kelsey Publishing Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2025-03-27 Active
Mr Ian David Fisher Individual Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% 2019-10-24 Ceased 2025-03-27

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 25 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-11-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2025-11-07 PSC02 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2025-11-07 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2025-09-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2025-04-02 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2025-04-02 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2025-03-31 PSC01 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2025-03-31 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-03-22 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-02-12 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2025-02-12 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2024-11-01 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-10-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2023-11-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2023-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-11-02 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2021-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-07-31 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2020-11-06 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
4

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31

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

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