THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  -36.4%

  £149,232,492 → £94,876,538

• Cash

  -55.8%

  £1,068,115 → £472,195

• Net assets

  +11%

  £60,101,162 → £66,690,930

• Employees

  -43.9%

  683 → 383

• Operating profit

  +226.4%

  -£3,510,930 → £4,439,001

• Profit before tax

  +1,636.9%

  -£3,447,665 → £52,988,224

• Wages

  -48.8%

  £53,092,447 → £27,199,009

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

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.

1. THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY LIMITED 1997-09-05 → present
2. TAWPIA LIMITED 1997-08-28 → 1997-09-05

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Cooper Parry, Statutory Auditor

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The Directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements in order to assess going concern which indicates that the Company will have sufficient funds, through funding from its immediate parent company, Sega Europe Limited, to meet its liabilities as they fall due during the going concern assessment period. The Company's only source of revenue is through games development activity for other group entities and meets its day to day working capital requirements through the use of a cash pooling facility provided by Sega Europe Limited. The cash pool facility operated by the Sega Europe Limited provides access to cash upon request to enable the Company to pay its obligations as they fall due. The Company is therefore dependent on Sega Europe Limited to ensure that the cash pooling facility remains available. Sega Europe Limited has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the company during the going concern assessment period. As with any Company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the Directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so. Consequently, the Directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY LIMITED · parent
   1. The Creative Assembly VGDC Limited 100% · Games development

Significant events

• “Creative Assembly continued to expand the Total War franchise with the release of new paid downloadable content for Total War: WARHAMMER III in 2024 with Thrones of Decay, released in April 2024 and Omens of Destruction, released in December 2024.”
• “In October 2024, Creative Assembly announced the sequel to the critically acclaimed Alien: Isolation, in partnership with Disney. The studio also started to prepare for 2025 which marks the 25th anniversary of the Total War franchise.”
• “After the year end the Company declared a dividend of £35,000,000.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.