D.C. THOMSON & COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-23 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£24M
-58.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£1B
-6.4% vs 2024
Employees
1,317
+0.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£31M
-67% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £153,874,000 | £183,992,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,975,000 | £23,310,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £93,802,000 | £30,986,000 | |
| Net profit | £73,052,000 | £30,308,000 | |
| Cash | £57,002,000 | £23,763,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,466,541,000 | £1,373,382,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,217,179,000 | £1,139,846,000 | |
| Equity | £1,217,179,000 | £1,139,846,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,314 | 1,317 | |
| Wages | £54,333,000 | £55,151,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.3% | 12.7% | |
| Net margin | 47.5% | 16.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.1% | 1.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 18.9% | 19.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.28x | 1.41x | |
| Interest cover | 4.26x | 129.50x |
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
- Henderson Loggie LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or Parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue”
Group structure
- D.C. THOMSON & COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Aberdeen Journals Limited 100%
- Beano Studios Limited 100%
- Emanata Studios Limited 100%
- Brightsolid Online Innovation Limited 100%
- Brightsolid Online Technology Limited 100%
- Findmypast Limited 100%
- Clavamore Limited 100%
- Fifth Ring Limited 100%
- Fifth Ring Pte Limited 100%
- Fifth Ring Inc 100%
- Kingdom Radio FM Limited 100%
- Meadowside Insurance Limited 100%
- Original Aberdeen FM Limited 100%
- PSP Media Group Limited 100%
- Puzzler Media Limited 100%
- The Stylist Group Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In the year to March 2025 the Pension Trustees decided to insure the defined benefit liability of the fund”
- “Brightsolid augmented its operations through merger and acquisition, acquiring Synergi Software Limited ("Synergi") in April 2025 (Synergi is not included in the results for the year ended 31 March 2025)”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALL, Peter | Secretary | 2026-04-01 | — | — |
| GRAY, Benjamin John Howard | Director | 2022-04-01 | Mar 1967 | British |
| HALL, Alan Richard Finden | Director | 2011-05-02 | Oct 1952 | British |
| THOMSON, Christopher Harold William | Director | 1995-10-01 | Jul 1950 | British |
| THOMSON, David Howard Eric | Director | 2014-04-01 | Nov 1973 | British |
| THOMSON, John Sidney | Director | 2022-04-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGLAS, Irene | Secretary | 1995-10-11 | 2019-03-05 |
| EVANS, Susannah | Secretary | 2019-03-05 | 2026-03-31 |
| MCDOUGALL, Allister | Secretary | — | 1995-10-27 |
| THOMSON, Alastair Gordon | Director | — | 2004-07-16 |
| THOMSON, Andrew Francis | Director | — | 2022-03-31 |
| THOMSON, Brian Harold | Director | — | 2006-11-07 |
| THOMSON, Derek Ballance | Director | — | 2002-01-17 |
| THOMSON, Lewis Murray | Director | — | 2014-05-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 124 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-03-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2026-05-07 | OC425 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2026-05-07 | CERT15 | capital | Certificate capital reduction issued capital | |
| 2026-04-01 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-04-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-03-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 3
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+19.6%
£153,874,000 £183,992,000
-
Cash
-58.3%
£57,002,000 £23,763,000
-
Net assets
-6.4%
£1,217,179,000 £1,139,846,000
-
Employees
+0.2%
1,314 1,317
-
Operating profit
+1,080.3%
£1,975,000 £23,310,000
-
Profit before tax
-67%
£93,802,000 £30,986,000
-
Wages
+1.5%
£54,333,000 £55,151,000
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