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Company description
LADYBIRD BOOKS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 August 1924; registered for 102 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 58110 · Book publishing.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported turnover £34,153,243, profit after tax £2,816,985, net assets £5,733,738, average employees 0. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 30 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- LADYBIRD BOOKS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00200130
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
26 March 2026Next statement due
9 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £34,153,243
- Gross profit
- £13,153,852
- Operating profit
- £3,932,753
- Profit before tax
- £3,761,101
- Profit after tax
- £2,816,985
- Fixed assets
- £42,733
- Net assets
- £5,733,738
- Current assets
- £22,618,611
- Current liabilities
- £16,446,660
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £6,214,684
- Equity
- £5,733,738
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Ladybird Books Limited
Registration ZA062290
- Registered from
- 30 July 2014
- Current end date
- 29 July 2027
- Trading names
- Ladybird Books
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
BABY TOUCH
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 1 February 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 February 2021
SUNBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 4 March 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 March 2020
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 14 October 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 October 2025
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 14 October 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 October 2025
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 1 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 May 2027
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16,18
- Filed / designated
- 29 April 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 April 2027
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28,38,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 17 July 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 July 2026
THE LADYBIRD NURSERY
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 17 July 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 July 2026
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28,38,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2021
FIRST FOCUS
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 15 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 February 2021
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9,16,28
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2020
LADYBIRD LEARNING AT HOME
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 13 January 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 January 2025
LADYBIRD LISTEN & LEARN
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 11 July 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 July 2018
LADYBIRD LISTEN & LEARN
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 11 July 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 July 2018
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 4 February 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 February 2028
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 4 February 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 February 2028
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 12 October 1966
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 October 2021
TINY TREASURES
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 28 July 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 July 2001
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 38
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2011
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2011
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2011
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2011
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2011
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2010
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2010
LADYBIRD
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2010
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2010
Ladybird
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2010
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2000
Figurative mark
Owner Ladybird Books Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2000
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Penguin Books Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 861590
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.