VS BRANDS HOLDINGS UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-25
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-01 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£31M
+26.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£42M
+47.7% vs 2024
Employees
632
-14.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£16M
+8.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-25
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-27 | 2025-01-25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £114,305,000 | £110,951,000 | |
| Operating profit | £15,018,000 | £16,488,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £14,973,000 | £16,246,000 | |
| Net profit | £11,542,000 | £12,975,000 | |
| Cash | £24,683,000 | £31,298,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £28,570,000 | £42,203,000 | |
| Equity | £28,570,000 | £42,203,000 | |
| Average employees | 739 | 632 | |
| Wages | £13,009,000 | £11,923,000 |
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 | 2024-01-27 | 2025-01-25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 13.1% | 14.9% | |
| Net margin | 10.1% | 11.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 39.6% | 38.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.45x | 2.49x | |
| Interest cover | 333.73x | 68.13x |
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
- Duncan & Toplis Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors, report that, having reviewed both the Company and the Group's current performance, its current cash position, the repayment profile of its existing debt structure and the resilience of its 12 month cash flow forecasts of the NEXT Group to a series of severe but plausible downside scenarios such as further enforced store closures, they have reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future. As part of this review, a joint letter of support for the Group for at least 12 months from the date of signing has been signed by the directors of NEXT plc and Victoria's Secret & Co.. For this reason, the directors have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- VS BRANDS HOLDINGS UK LIMITED · parent
- Intimate Apparel Retail UK Limited 100%
- Intimate Apparel Retail Ireland Limited 100%
- Intimate Apparel Digital UK Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the year ended 25 January 2025, the Company closed 5 standalone stores including its London flagship store in early February 2024. The Company also opened 5 standalones stores and 1 shop-in-shop during the year and will see the annual benefit of these trading in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHARDWAJ, Arun Kumar | Director | 2020-12-17 | Oct 1968 | New Zealander |
| KOCOUREK, Amy Joanne | Director | 2025-07-14 | Apr 1968 | American |
| MURTY, Nicholas Paul | Director | 2020-08-19 | May 1974 | British |
| STAKOL, Jeremy Paul | Director | 2020-08-19 | Aug 1970 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELVIE, Todd Gregory | Director | 2020-08-19 | 2023-10-01 |
| JOHNSON, Timothy Allen | Director | 2023-10-01 | 2025-03-28 |
| SEKELLA, Scott Nicholas | Director | 2025-03-28 | 2025-07-14 |
| WATERS, Martin | Director | 2020-08-19 | 2020-12-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lipsy Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2020-08-19 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 23 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-10-01 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-11-02 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2020-10-01 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-25 vs 2024-01-27
-
Turnover
-2.9%
£114,305,000 £110,951,000
-
Cash
+26.8%
£24,683,000 £31,298,000
-
Net assets
+47.7%
£28,570,000 £42,203,000
-
Employees
-14.5%
739 632
-
Operating profit
+9.8%
£15,018,000 £16,488,000
-
Profit before tax
+8.5%
£14,973,000 £16,246,000
-
Wages
-8.3%
£13,009,000 £11,923,000
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