DB BROADCAST HOLDINGS LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-28 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-14
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-32.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
-14.1% vs 2024
Employees
56
+7.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+11.5% 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
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary 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 | £1,205,316 | £1,374,957 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,257,984 | £1,402,606 | |
| Net profit | £970,973 | £1,061,126 | |
| Cash | £3,105,020 | £2,089,929 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,335,458 | £7,974,741 | |
| Net assets | £8,043,995 | £6,906,121 | |
| Equity | £8,043,995 | £6,906,121 | |
| Average employees | 52 | 56 | |
| Wages | £2,194,015 | £2,473,334 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £230,780 | £235,404 |
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
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Turnover
+23.4%
£17,712,565 £21,865,372
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Cash
-32.7%
£3,105,020 £2,089,929
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Net assets
-14.1%
£8,043,995 £6,906,121
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Employees
+7.7%
52 56
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Operating profit
+14.1%
£1,205,316 £1,374,957
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Profit before tax
+11.5%
£1,257,984 £1,402,606
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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 | 6.8% | 6.3% | |
| Net margin | 5.5% | 4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 14.5% | 17.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.37x | 1.43x | |
| Interest cover | 480.78x | 130.64x |
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
- PEM Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that the Group and Parent Company will continue to trade successfully and meet their liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future, and have prepared financial statements on a going concern basis. Auditors concluded the use of going concern basis is appropriate.”
Group structure
- DB BROADCAST HOLDINGS LTD · parent
- dB Broadcast Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Turnover increased by 23% in 2025, supported by diversification into new markets.”
- “Net assets reduced due to Company repurchasing £1.9m of its own shares and payment of a £0.3m dividend.”
- “The Parent Company completed a buy-back of 211 Ordinary shares for £1.9m from a shareholder.”
- “The Group entered into a four-year hire purchase contract for an outside broadcast vehicle, which has been sub-leased to a customer.”
- “On 29 October 2024, dB Broadcast Products Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary undertaking, was liquidated.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIRD, David Jonathan | Secretary | 2014-03-14 | — | — |
| AMORY, Ross | Director | 2014-06-16 | Nov 1982 | British |
| BIRD, David Jonathan | Director | 2014-03-14 | Mar 1962 | British |
| PEARL, Graham Melvin | Director | 2014-06-16 | Dec 1961 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Jonathan Bird | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 43 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-12-05 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-11-07 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-11-07 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-02-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-12-06 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-11-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-08-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 2
- 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.