LEBARA HOLDING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-17
Watchouts
Cash
£23M
EUR 26,869,000
-58% vs 2023
Net assets
-£56M
EUR -63,869,000
-49.9% vs 2023
Employees
261
-5.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£47M
EUR 54,062,000
+75% vs 2023
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 Telecommunications median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £396,184,886 | £449,486,912 | |
| Operating profit | £29,574,746 | £46,820,593 | |
| Profit before tax | £26,871,032 | £47,014,523 | |
| Net profit | £18,202,452 | £33,145,491 | |
| Cash | £55,670,928 | £23,366,380 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£5,156,970 | -£31,374,033 | |
| Net assets | -£37,057,135 | -£55,543,091 | |
| Equity | -£37,057,135 | -£55,543,091 | |
| Average employees | 275 | 261 | |
| Wages | £23,692,495 | £26,570,137 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £606,140 | £755,718 |
Figures converted to GBP from EUR at 0.870 per EUR (Frankfurter spot rate) — hover any figure for the original. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+13.5%
£396,184,886 £449,486,912
-
Cash
-58%
£55,670,928 £23,366,380
-
Net assets
-49.9%
-£37,057,135 -£55,543,091
-
Employees
-5.1%
275 261
-
Operating profit
+58.3%
£29,574,746 £46,820,593
-
Profit before tax
+75%
£26,871,032 £47,014,523
-
Wages
+12.1%
£23,692,495 £26,570,137
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 7.5% | 10.4% | |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 7.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -573.5% | -149.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 120.8% | 134.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.74x | 0.61x | |
| Interest cover | 9.87x | 12.33x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Price Bailey LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- LEBARA HOLDING LIMITED · parent
- Lebara Denmark ApS 100%
- Lebara France Limited 100%
- Lebara Germany Limited 100%
- Lebara Limited 100%
- Lebara Mobile Denmark Limited 100%
- Lebara Mobile Germany Limited 100%
- Lebara Mobile Limited 100%
- Lebara Mobile Netherlands Limited 100%
- Lebara Service Centre Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Until 6 November 2024, the Group's immediate parent was Lebara Group B.V. On 6th November the Lebara group was acquired by Waterland Private Equity. From this date the Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Murrayfield Bidco UK Limited which is incorporated in the England and Wales. The ultimate parent undertaking is WPEF IX Holding Coöperatief W.A., a cooperative incorporated in the Netherlands.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIDGES, Jacob | Director | 2025-07-01 | Aug 1978 | British |
| DARWENT, Richard Anthony | Director | 2022-08-18 | Jun 1971 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWD, Brendan Paul | Director | 2024-11-06 | 2025-07-01 |
| PEARCE, Fraser James | Director | 2022-08-18 | 2024-11-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murrayfield Bidco Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-11-06 | Active |
| Lithium Uk Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-08-18 | Ceased 2024-11-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 35 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-10 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-02-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-10-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-10 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-02-07 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-02-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-14 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-14 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- 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.