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REGISTERED NUMBER: 09075255 (England and Wales)















Report of the Director and

Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

for

Howe UK Ltd.

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024




Page

Company Information 1

Report of the Director 2

Report of the Independent Auditors 4

Income Statement 7

Other Comprehensive Income 8

Balance Sheet 9

Statement of Changes in Equity 10

Notes to the Financial Statements 11


Howe UK Ltd.

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024







DIRECTOR: S O Bateson





REGISTERED OFFICE: 823 Salisbury House
29 Finsbury Circus
London





REGISTERED NUMBER: 09075255 (England and Wales)





AUDITORS: Krogh & Partners Limited, (Statutory Auditor)
823 Salisbury House
29 Finsbury Circus
London
EC2M 5QQ

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Report of the Director
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The director presents his report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2024.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of sale of furniture.

REVIEW OF BUSINESS
The financial position at the year end, were considered satisfactory by the director, but the result for the year were considered acceptable due to the current economic climate.

DIRECTOR
S O Bateson held office during the whole of the period from 1 January 2024 to the date of this report.

RESULTS AND DIVIDEND
The Company's loss for the year amounted to GBP (198,003). No Dividend was voted for the year.

POST BALANCE SHEET
No post balance sheet events have occurred since 31 December 2024 which require reporting or disclosing in the accounts.

STATEMENT OF DIRECTOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES
The director is responsible for preparing the Report of the Director and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the director to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the director has elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the director must not approve the financial statements unless he is satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the director is required to:

-select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
-make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The director is responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable him to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS
So far as the director is aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and he has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.

AUDITORS
The auditors, Krogh & Partners Limited, (Statutory Auditor), will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.


Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Report of the Director
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:





S O Bateson - Director


21 February 2025

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Howe UK Ltd. (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Income Statement, Other Comprehensive Income, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:
-give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its loss for the year then ended;
-have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
-have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the director with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information
The director is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Report of the Director, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
- the information given in the Report of the Director for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the Report of the Director has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)


Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Director.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- certain disclosures of director's remuneration specified by law are not made; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
- the director was not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Report of the Director.

Responsibilities of director
As explained more fully in the Statement of Director's Responsibilities set out on page two, the director is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the director determines necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the director is responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the director either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

- the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
- we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge of the business;
- we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, including the Companies Act 2006 and taxation legislation;
- we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
- identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)


We assessed the susceptibility of the company's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
- making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud;
- considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
- performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
- tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions;

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
- agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
- enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims;
- reviewing correspondence with HMRC and relevant regulators

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.




John Lindegaard (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of Krogh & Partners Limited, (Statutory Auditor)
823 Salisbury House
29 Finsbury Circus
London
EC2M 5QQ

21 February 2025

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Income Statement
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

2024 2023
Notes £    £    £    £   

TURNOVER 2,243,638 2,033,167

Cost of sales 1,270,252 1,102,413
GROSS PROFIT 973,386 930,754

Distribution costs 735,380 610,786
Administrative expenses 450,973 345,730
1,186,353 956,516
OPERATING LOSS (212,967 ) (25,762 )

Interest receivable and similar income 4 19,533 11,159
(193,434 ) (14,603 )

Interest payable and similar expenses 5 4,569 5,132
LOSS BEFORE TAXATION (198,003 ) (19,735 )

Tax on loss 6 - 2,080
LOSS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR (198,003 ) (21,815 )

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Other Comprehensive Income
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

2024 2023
Notes £    £   

LOSS FOR THE YEAR (198,003 ) (21,815 )


OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - -
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR

(198,003

)

(21,815

)

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Balance Sheet
31 December 2024

2024 2023
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 7 31,344 66,831

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 39,413 33,789
Debtors 8 121,738 306,643
Cash at bank 924,192 1,005,525
1,085,343 1,345,957
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 9 267,133 365,231
NET CURRENT ASSETS 818,210 980,726
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

849,554

1,047,557

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES 11 1,000 1,000
NET ASSETS 848,554 1,046,557

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 12 1,000 1,000
Retained earnings 847,554 1,045,557
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 848,554 1,046,557

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the director and authorised for issue on 21 February 2025 and were signed by:





S O Bateson - Director


Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Statement of Changes in Equity
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Called up
share Retained Total
capital earnings equity
£    £    £   
Balance at 1 January 2023 1,000 1,067,372 1,068,372

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - (21,815 ) (21,815 )
Balance at 31 December 2023 1,000 1,045,557 1,046,557

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - (198,003 ) (198,003 )
Balance at 31 December 2024 1,000 847,554 848,554

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Howe UK Ltd. is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when the risks and rewards relating to the goods sold have been transferred to the purchaser, the turnover can be measured reliably and it is probable that the economic benefits relating to the sale will flow to the company.

Pensions
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate.

Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and less any accumulated impairment losses.

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates over the expected useful lives of the assets:

Land and buildings 10 years
Fixtures, Fittings and Computer Equipment 2-8 years

Impairment of fixed assets
The carrying amounts of fixed assets are reviewed on an annual basis to determine whether there is any indication of impairment other than that expressed by amortisation and depreciation

If so, the asset is written down to its lower recoverable amount.

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.


Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued
Taxation
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Foreign currencies
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result.

Debtors
Debtors are valued individually and there are made provision according to this valuation.

Creditors
Creditors are carried at payment or settlement amounts. Where the time value of money is material, creditors are carried at amortised cost.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 5 (2023 - 5 ) .

4. INTEREST RECEIVABLE AND SIMILAR INCOME
2024 2023
£    £   
Group Interest 1,889 1,279
Bank interest 17,644 9,880
19,533 11,159

5. INTEREST PAYABLE AND SIMILAR EXPENSES
2024 2023
£    £   
Group Interest 731 -
Other 2,419 4,846
Currency exchange 1,419 286
4,569 5,132

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

6. TAXATION

Analysis of the tax charge
The tax charge on the loss for the year was as follows:
2024 2023
£    £   
Current tax:
UK corporation tax - 2,080
Tax on loss - 2,080

7. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Improvements Fixtures
to and
property fittings Totals
£    £    £   
COST
At 1 January 2024 69,019 85,987 155,006
Additions - 22,895 22,895
Disposals - (18,632 ) (18,632 )
At 31 December 2024 69,019 90,250 159,269
DEPRECIATION
At 1 January 2024 27,126 61,049 88,175
Charge for year 14,395 43,987 58,382
Eliminated on disposal - (18,632 ) (18,632 )
At 31 December 2024 41,521 86,404 127,925
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2024 27,498 3,846 31,344
At 31 December 2023 41,893 24,938 66,831

8. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2024 2023
£    £   
Trade debtors 62,130 242,561
Other debtors 28,656 32,140
Prepayments 30,952 31,942
121,738 306,643

Howe UK Ltd. (Registered number: 09075255)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

9. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2024 2023
£    £   
Trade creditors 50,023 58,335
Amounts owed to group undertakings 75,516 170,412
Tax - 2,080
VAT 77,587 80,118
Accruals and deferred income 64,007 54,286
267,133 365,231

10. LEASING AGREEMENTS
at 31 December 2024, the company had total commitments under non-cancellable operating leases of £100,800 (2023 - £195,300).

11. PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES
2024 2023
£    £   
Deferred tax
Accelerated capital allowances 1,000 1,000

Deferred
tax
£   
Balance at 1 January 2024 1,000
Change in the year
Balance at 31 December 2024 1,000

12. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2024 2023
value: £    £   
1,000 Ordinary 1 1,000 1,000

13. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.

14. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The ultimate parent undertaking is Whipporwill Associates, inc., incorporated and registered in United States.

Howe A/S is the smallest group to consolidate these financial statements and copies can be obtained from:

Howe A/S
Helgavej 26
5230 Odense M
Denmark