SREL RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  0%

  £100,000 → £100,000

• Net assets

  +11.9%

  £465,700,000 → £520,900,000

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Profit before tax

  +100.2%

  -£239,800,000 → £400,000

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

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. SREL RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED 2012-12-20 → present
2. SELFRIDGES RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED 2011-11-11 → 2012-12-20
3. SELFRDIGES RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED 2011-11-11 → 2011-11-11
4. SGL RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED 2011-10-28 → 2011-11-11

Accounting basis

FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

KPMG LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“On this basis, the directors are confident that the Group and hence 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. SREL RETAIL EUROPE LIMITED · parent
   1. St Clair B.V. 100% · Netherlands · Holding Company
   2. Magazijn De Bijenkorf BV 100% · Netherlands · Department store retailing
   3. Brown Thomas Arnotts Holdings Limited 100% · Ireland · Holding Company
   4. Brown Thomas Arnotts Company Limited 100% · Ireland · Holding Company
   5. Brown Thomas Arnotts Limited 100% · Ireland · Department store retailing
   6. William Todd & Company Limited 100% · Ireland · Dormant Company
   7. Arnotts Limited 100% · Ireland · Dormant Company
   8. Brown Thomas & Co Limited 100% · Ireland · Dormant Company
   9. Whistler Sevco Limited 100% · Ireland · Property Investment Company

Significant events

• “On 16 September 2024, SIGNA Retail GmbH, the minority shareholder in the indirect parent company, Cambridge Retail Group Holding Limited, signed a Share Purchase Agreement to transfer its shareholding to the Public Investment Fund ("PIF") of Saudi Arabia and new shareholder arrangements were agreed between the existing shareholder, Harng Central Department Store Limited ("Central Group") and PIF, with completion taking place in two parts on 12 December 2024 and 23 December 2024. Following completion, Central Group retained its majority shareholding, with PIF being the minority shareholder in Cambridge Retail Group Holding Limited and its subsidiaries ("Selfridges Group"), which includes the Company.”
• “From 9 April 2025, a series of steps were completed which involved a reduction of capital in the Company in the form of share cancellation and the Company capitalising its merger reserve. This has resulted in Called up Share Capital of £136.0m (135,988,240 ordinary shares of £1) and Retained Earnings of £384.9m. The share premium and merge reserve have been fully eliminated as part of this process and the redeemable preference shares in issue remain unchanged.”
• “A dividend of £8.5m was received from a direct subsidiary on 24 April 2025 and paid up to the immediate parent undertaking on the same date.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

5

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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