DB BROADCAST LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-11 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-34% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
-34.4% vs 2024
Employees
56
+7.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+13.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Telecommunications median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,712,565 | £21,865,372 | |
| Operating profit | £986,864 | £1,156,269 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,042,039 | £1,183,645 | |
| Net profit | £815,019 | £900,748 | |
| Cash | £3,081,862 | £2,032,689 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,190,079 | £4,867,669 | |
| Net assets | £6,107,324 | £4,008,072 | |
| Equity | £6,107,324 | £4,008,072 | |
| Average employees | 52 | 56 | |
| Wages | £2,194,015 | £2,473,334 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £511,484 | £574,626 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
+23.4%
£17,712,565 £21,865,372
-
Cash
-34%
£3,081,862 £2,032,689
-
Net assets
-34.4%
£6,107,324 £4,008,072
-
Employees
+7.7%
52 56
-
Operating profit
+17.2%
£986,864 £1,156,269
-
Profit before tax
+13.6%
£1,042,039 £1,183,645
-
Wages
+12.7%
£2,194,015 £2,473,334
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.6% | 5.3% | |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 4.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.9% | 23.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.72x | 1.44x | |
| Interest cover | — | 111.82x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DB BROADCAST LTD 1999-07-14 → present
- D B BROADCAST ENGINEERING LIMITED 1992-04-27 → 1999-07-14
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PEM Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- DB BROADCAST LTD · parent
- dB Broadcast Products Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Turnover increased by 23%, supported by successful diversification into new markets and with new customers.”
- “The reduction in net assets reflects the payment of a dividend of £3m to the ultimate parent in the year, which exceeded the profit generated during the year.”
- “During the year, the Company declared and paid an interim dividend amounting to £3,000,000 (2024 - £Nil).”
- “Our auditor, Peters Elworthy & Moore, transferred their audit registration and therefore that part of their business to a newly incorporated limited company, PEM Audit Limited, on 1 September 2025.”
- “During the financial year, the Company entered into a four-year hire purchase contract for an outside broadcast vehicle.”
- “The Company owned 100% of the issued share capital of dB Broadcast Products Limited, which was liquidated on 29 October 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMORY, Ross | Director | 2013-08-16 | Nov 1982 | British |
| APPLEYARD, Andrew Kevin | Director | 2024-01-01 | May 1978 | British |
| BIRD, David Jonathan | Director | 1992-04-27 | Mar 1962 | British |
| BRYAN, Michael Andrew | Director | 2020-11-01 | Jun 1978 | British |
| HIPKIN, Daniel Peter | Director | 2020-11-01 | Feb 1979 | British |
| PEARL, Graham Melvin | Director | 2013-01-02 | Dec 1961 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIRD, Cheryl | Secretary | 1992-04-27 | 2014-06-16 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1992-04-27 | 1992-04-27 |
| BIRD, Cheryl | Director | 1999-07-01 | 2014-06-16 |
| EVANS, Gareth Wyn | Director | 2009-04-14 | 2012-12-31 |
| HOYLAND, Nigel Peter | Director | 2010-02-16 | 2010-02-16 |
| MATTISON, Ian | Director | 2010-02-16 | 2010-02-16 |
| PEARL, Graham Melvin | Director | 2001-09-28 | 2003-05-02 |
| SWAN, Thomas Edward | Director | 2001-09-28 | 2020-04-30 |
| WHEATLEY, James Martyn | Director | 2007-07-16 | 2011-05-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Db Broadcast Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 136 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-10-07 MA Memorandum articles
- 2021-10-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-04-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-05-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-07 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-10-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-10-06 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2021-10-06 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2021-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.