MACFARLANE MEDIA LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-17 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-03
Watchouts
Cash
£20M
+33% highest in 6 filed years
Net assets
£22M
+22.3% highest in 6 filed years
Employees
99
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£6M
+20.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
10-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
10-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2020-02-29 | 2020-03-01 | 2021-02-28 | 2021-03-01 | 2022-02-28 | 2022-03-01 | 2023-02-28 | 2023-03-01 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £11,979,633 | £13,391,571 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £4,287,052 | £5,106,573 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £4,762,092 | £5,748,785 | |
| Net profit | — | — | £3,865,808 | — | £5,122,962 | — | £4,241,558 | — | £3,572,978 | £4,259,783 | |
| Cash | £8,340,632 | — | £8,784,429 | — | £11,822,264 | — | £12,806,728 | — | £14,921,274 | £19,851,950 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,347,364 | — | £8,995,567 | — | £13,926,409 | — | £14,397,835 | — | — | — | |
| Net assets | £5,347,364 | — | £8,995,567 | — | £13,926,409 | — | £14,397,835 | — | £17,802,549 | £21,764,447 | |
| Equity | £5,347,364 | £5,347,373 | £8,995,567 | £8,995,567 | £13,926,409 | £13,926,409 | £14,397,835 | £14,397,835 | £17,802,549 | £21,764,447 | |
| Average employees | 30 | — | 40 | — | 54 | — | 62 | — | 99 | 99 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £4,005,304 | £4,687,686 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £17,680 | £16,164 |
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 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-29
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Turnover
+11.8%
£11,979,633 £13,391,571
-
Cash
+33%
£14,921,274 £19,851,950
highest in 6 filed years
-
Net assets
+22.3%
£17,802,549 £21,764,447
highest in 6 filed years
-
Employees
0%
99 99
-
Operating profit
+19.1%
£4,287,052 £5,106,573
-
Profit before tax
+20.7%
£4,762,092 £5,748,785
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Wages
+17%
£4,005,304 £4,687,686
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 | 2020-02-29 | 2020-03-01 | 2021-02-28 | 2021-03-01 | 2022-02-28 | 2022-03-01 | 2023-02-28 | 2023-03-01 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 35.8% | 38.1% | |
| Net margin | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 29.8% | 31.8% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.34x | 5.21x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 70.82x | 853.23x |
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
- Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence and meet its liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least twelve months from the date these financial statements were approved. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- MACFARLANE MEDIA LIMITED · parent
- The Media Image US Inc 1%
- J S 2 Trading (Pty) Limited 1%
Significant events
- “New business wins: Expanded presence across traditional service sectors, including a significant new client in South Africa.”
- “Rebrand: Completed in June 2025, following work initiated in late 2024.”
- “Talent initiatives: Launch of second graduate intake, Executive Vice President of Growth appointment, and creation of internal recruitment function.”
- “Operational focus: Continued investment in project management and workflow optimisation to enhance capacity and efficiency.”
- “On 17 March 2025, the company issued six ordinary C shares with a nominal value of £1 each, issued at par.”
- “As at 28 February 2025, the company recognised a liability of £330,000 in respect of staff bonuses. This liability was subsequently settled in April 2025 through a dividend distribution to eligible employees.”
- “In March 2025, director Grant Macfarlane received a loan of £2 million from the company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACFARLANE, Grant | Director | 2009-10-16 | Oct 1973 | British |
| MACFARLANE, Marketa | Director | 2015-08-31 | Jun 1979 | Czech |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, Andrew Simon | Director | 2009-10-16 | 2009-10-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Marketa Macfarlane | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-15 | Active |
| Mr Grant Macfarlane | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-10-16 | Ceased 2025-04-15 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 61 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-03-24 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-03-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-29 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-29 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-03-24 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-03-24 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-03-17 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-05-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2021-09-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 1
- 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.