SENTRIC MUSIC GROUP LIMITED
Owned by the French music company Believe, Sentric Music is a Liverpool-headquartered music publisher and rights administrator that collects royalties and secures synchronisation opportunities for songwriters and artists.
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Cash
£16m
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£9.1m
Equity attributable
Employees
93
Average over period
Profit before tax
£2m
Period ending 2023-12-31
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
1-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
1-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £58,169,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | £1,924,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | £1,998,000 | — | |
| Net profit | £3,722,000 | — | |
| Cash | £16,012,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,100,000 | — | |
| Net assets | £9,050,000 | — | |
| Equity | £9,050,000 | — | |
| Average employees | 93 | — | |
| Wages | £4,970,000 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £624,000 | — | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £5,000 | — | |
| Highest paid director | £240,000 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing's period length differs materially from the prior year. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.3% | |
| Net margin | 6.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 86.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.05x |
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
- Langtons Professional Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group generates sufficient funds from ongoing business activities to fund its day to day working capital requirements. Current forecasts indicate that the group expects to be able to operate using funds generated from ongoing business activities for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the directors believe it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHANDLER, Stuart Neil | Director | 2025-12-08 | Dec 1985 | British |
| MEEHAN, Christopher John | Director | 2020-04-21 | Jan 1985 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAFFER, Daniel | Director | 2024-02-05 | 2025-12-08 |
| CHANDLER, Stuart Neil | Director | 2020-04-21 | 2023-10-09 |
| DAVIES, Martin William Oliver | Director | 2020-05-27 | 2022-11-18 |
| INSKIP, Neil Patrick | Director | 2020-05-27 | 2022-05-04 |
| MCCAMLEY, Hugh Peter | Director | 2021-08-19 | 2023-10-09 |
| NERI, Roberto Bruno | Director | 2022-05-04 | 2024-02-05 |
| VIDAL, Bastien Louis Albert | Director | 2022-05-04 | 2023-03-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Believe Sa | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-03-29 | Ceased 2025-08-05 |
| Utopia Music Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2022-05-04 | Ceased 2023-03-29 |
| Bgf Nominees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-05-27 | Ceased 2022-05-04 |
| Mr Christopher John Meehan | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-04-21 | Ceased 2022-05-04 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 66 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-03-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-06 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-08-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-03-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-26 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-03-26 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-03-26 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-03-26 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-03-25 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-03-25 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.