Fremantlemedia Limited
Registered name: FREMANTLEMEDIA LIMITED
Part of Rtl Group Sa groupFremantlemedia Limited made £299m revenue and a £60.7m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Fremantlemedia Limited’s revenue fell 19% to £299m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £60.7m. The company is classified under “television programme production activities”; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Age
- 93 yrs · since 1933
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £365m | £367m | £299m |
| Cost of sales | −£273m | −£276m | −£214m |
| Gross profit | £91.8m | £91.2m | £84.4m |
| Operating profit | £8.9m | £7.4m | −£53.8m |
| Profit before tax | £9.5m | £3.5m | −£73.3m |
| Profit after tax | £5.7m | −£154k | −£60.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.7m | −£154k | −£60.7m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.6% | 0% | −20.3% |
| Gross margin | 25.2% | 24.8% | 28.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.7% | ▼18.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼102.7% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −20.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
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- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
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- Now —
- Cash at bank
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- Now —
- Headcount
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- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Rtl Group Sa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Fremantlemedia Group Limited75–100%
- Fremantlemedia Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (8)
- Dancing Ledge Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dublin Murders Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Euston Films Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantlemedia Studios LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Implere Media LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Retort Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Spotlight Format Development LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Talkbackthames UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (17)
- 72 Films LimitedRev. £18.4m · Profit £2m
- Wag Entertainment LimitedRev. £4.4m · Profit £251k
- Arrow International Media LimitedRev. — · Profit £722k
- Auralyx UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Euston Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantle Group Pension Trustee LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantle LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantle Nordic Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantle Periodic (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantlemedia Animation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fremantlemedia Overseas LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Imaginae Studios LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Red Planet Pictures LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Talkback Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thames Television Animation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thames Television LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Wildstar Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£60.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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