The Directors present the Strategic Report for Movex Logistics Limited ('the Company') for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The Company is a member of the Manheim Global Management UK Limited group of companies ('the Group').

The Company demonstrated growth during a period of increased volumes leading to more demand for transportation movements. This was due to an increase in used car purchases, a direct-side effect of the improved landscape of the car market with increased new car production. Strong cost control and management of the effect of inflation on costs resulted in minimised impact on overall profitability, despite the challenging environment.

Management continues to identify improvements in efficiencies and plans to continue investment into the systems key to operations. £0.2m (2023: £0.3m) was invested into technology and capitalised during the year. The related assets have a total net book value of £0.3m and are classified as intangible assets.

The number of completed vehicle movements is a non-financial key performance indicator ('KPI') for management. Completed volumes increased 7%. The new car market has improved in the year as usual trading conditions returned, providing an increase in transport.

This resulted in turnover increasing by £1.2m (6.5%) to £19.6m (2023: £18.4m). The increase in turnover is in line with volume increase.

The increases in administrative expenses are due to a number of separate factors. One factor is the wider inflationary environment, resulting increases have been seen across different categories of expenses. Other key increases were due to increased debt expense relating to two unrecoverable vehicles and increases in software support recharges from a group entity Manheim Limited. These meant that Operating profit decreased £0.2m to £2.1m (2023: £2.3m). Amortisation increased by £0.1m to £0.3m. Hence, EBITDA decreased by a lesser extent, £0.1m, to £2.5m (2023: £2.6m). Given the cost impact of inflation, the Directors view this result as a satisfactory performance overall.

Other non-financial KPIs include vehicle transportation movements as mentioned and revenue per movement which are both deemed commercially sensitive. Number of employees is also considered, and the average number increased during the year by 3 to 29 (2023: 26), however this is mainly driven by part-time staff brought in during busy periods, which increases the average. Number of permanent employees was actually reduced at the year-end compared to prior year in an effort to streamline the workforce.

Principal risks and uncertainties affecting the Company are captured by the risk assessment completed at the Group level. Given the Group operates in the same market across multiple companies and areas, centralised risk assessment is the most efficient approach to risk management. The principal risks and uncertainties relate to market trends, macroeconomic and regulatory environments and IT risks surrounding key systems. Group risks are presented in the Annual report and financial statements of Manheim Global Management UK Limited available from UK Companies House.

Approved on behalf of the board and signed on its behalf by

The Directors present their Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The principal activity of the Company is the facilitation of vehicle movements across the UK through a vehicle logistics platform linking dealers and dealer groups with transport providers.

The results for the year are set out on page 9.

No ordinary dividends were paid (2023: Nil). The directors do not recommend payment of a final dividend.

The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:

The Company has made qualifying third party indemnity provisions for the benefit of its directors during the year. These provisions remain in force at the reporting date.

Finance related procedures are subject to overarching Group policies designed to mitigate financial risk to sufficiently acceptable levels. Treasury operations are centrally managed in the Group. Financing is made available from a fellow group company and the Company is party to central management of cash flows across the Group.

Daily Group level cash flow forecasting ensures borrowing limits are not exceeded on a pooled basis. The risk of insufficient funds occurring is deemed low given the availability of intercompany borrowing. There is no exchange rates risk as all operations are UK based. Interest rate risk is deemed low as loans are repayable on demand and attract a low margin of interest on an acceptable benchmark rate.

The Company developed a mobile application which can be used by transport providers and customers to more easily access the system and undertake such functions as to bid on jobs and accept bids. The software is constantly under development and improvements are frequently implemented and capitalised where meeting the criteria to correctly do so.

There have been no significant events since the balance sheet date.

The Directors are confident in the continued success of the Company for the forthcoming year and beyond, and do not intend to significantly change the function the Company serves.

The auditor, Deloitte LLP, is deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.

So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information. This confirmation is given and should be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of S418 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Company is a subsidiary in the Manheim Global Management UK Limited Group (‘MGMUK’). During the year the Company generated profits of £3.1m (2023: £3.1m). At 31 December 2024 the Company is in a net current assets position at the year-end of £17.4m (2023: £14.3m). No cash has been pooled via intercompany, consistent with prior year.

MGMUK operates a centralised treasury function and cash pooling for all UK based entities, which the Company is included within. MGMUK maintains a £10.0m overdraft facility with Barclays Bank Plc, repayable on demand. At the date of this report, MGMUK reports net cash of £26.5m and undrawn facilities of £10.0m.

The Company shares common Directors with MGMUK. When considering the going concern assumption the Directors also considered the cash available to the Company, including the MGMUK cash pooling arrangement of which this company is part of.

The Directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for the MGMUK group with the following considerations:

• the working capital structure and liquidity of the Group and the ability of the Group to continue to service its creditors as they fall due;

• the cash and committed funding facilities in place;

• the principal risks facing the Group and its systems of risk mitigation and control;

• External factors influencing overall performance such as inflation; and

• the Board approved cash flow forecasts prepared for a period to 31 July 2026.

• The Directors modelled downside scenarios to consider potential impact on the Group's forecast results and cash flows. Assumptions in the scenarios are reductions in Group EBITDA excluding FX and restructuring, which could result from falls in revenue or increases in costs, driven by market conditions. The Directors also conducted stress testing of the Group's forecasts and, considering reasonable downside sensitivities, the Directors are satisfied that the Group is expected to operate within its available cash resources. After modelling a 50% reduction in Group EBITDA excluding FX and restructuring across all operations, sufficient facility headroom remained in the model across all months.

These forecasts demonstrate that MGMUK has sufficient liquidity and will be able to operate within its available facilities during the forecast period covering 12 months from the date of signing this report.

Accordingly, the Directors have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the Company’s financial statements.

The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law), including FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland”. Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are 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 directors are 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 directors are 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 them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are 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.

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

In our opinion the financial statements of Movex Logistics Limited (the ‘company’):

• give a true and fair view of the state of the company’s affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its profit for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland”; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

We have audited the financial statements which comprise:

• the statement of comprehensive income;

• the balance sheet;

• the statement of changes in equity; and

• the related notes 1 to 17.

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).

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 auditor's 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 Financial Reporting Council’s (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 directors' 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 directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. 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.

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 course of 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.

As explained more fully in the directors’ responsibilities statement, the directors are 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 directors determine is 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 directors are 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 directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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 an auditor's report 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.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the FRC’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

We considered the nature of the company’s industry and its control environment, and reviewed the company’s documentation of their policies and procedures relating to fraud and compliance with laws and regulations. We also enquired of management and the directors about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, including those that are specific to the company’s business sector.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the company operates in, and identified the key laws and regulations that:

• had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. These included the UK Companies Act and tax legislation; and

• do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the company’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

We discussed among the audit engagement team including relevant internal specialists such as tax regarding the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements.

In common with all audits under ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override. In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments; assessed whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and evaluated the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

In addition to the above, our procedures to respond to the risks identified included the following:

• reviewing financial statement disclosures by testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements;

• performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud;

• enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims, and instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations; and

• reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

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 strategic report and the directors’ report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

• the strategic report and the directors’ report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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 any material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors’ report.

Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report in respect of the following matters 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 directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

We have nothing to report in respect of these matters.

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 an auditor’s report 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.

The statement of comprehensive income has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.

There have been no items of other comprehensive income in the year and therefore no separate statement of comprehensive income is presented.

The notes on pages 12 to 23 form part of these financial statements. See note 16 for details of Capital items noted above.

Movex Logistics Ltd is a private company limited by shares registered in England and Wales and incorporated in the United Kingdom under Companies Act 2006. The registered office is Central House, Leeds Road, Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS26 0JE.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £'000.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

This company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares publicly available consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements:

• Section 7 ‘Statement of Cash Flows’: Presentation of a statement of cash flow and related notes and disclosures;

• Section 33 ‘Related Party Disclosures’: Compensation for key management personnel.

The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Manheim Global Management UK Limited. These consolidated financial statements are available from its registered office, Central House, Leeds Road, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0JE.

The Company is a subsidiary in the Manheim Global Management UK Limited Group (‘MGMUK’). During the year the Company generated profits of £3.1m (2023: £3.1m). At 31 December 2024 the Company is in a net current assets position at the year-end of £17.4m (2023: £14.3m). No cash has been pooled via intercompany, consistent with prior year.true

MGMUK operates a centralised treasury function and cash pooling for all UK based entities, which the Company is included within. MGMUK maintains a £10.0m overdraft facility with Barclays Bank Plc, repayable on demand. At the date of this report, MGMUK reports net cash of £26.5m and undrawn facilities of £10.0m.

The Company shares common Directors with MGMUK. When considering the going concern assumption the Directors also considered the cash available to the Company, including the MGMUK cash pooling arrangement of which this company is part of.

The Directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for the MGMUK group with the following considerations:

• •    the working capital structure and liquidity of the Group and the ability of the Group to continue to service its creditors as they fall due;

• •    the cash and committed funding facilities in place;

• •    the principal risks facing the Group and its systems of risk mitigation and control;

• •    External factors influencing overall performance such as inflation; and

• •    the Board approved cash flow forecasts prepared for a period to 31 July 2026.

• •    The Directors modelled downside scenarios to consider potential impact on the Group's forecast results and cash flows. Assumptions in the scenarios are reductions in Group EBITDA excluding FX and restructuring, which could result from falls in revenue or increases in costs, driven by market conditions. The Directors also conducted stress testing of the Group's forecasts and, considering reasonable downside sensitivities, the Directors are satisfied that the Group is expected to operate within its available cash resources. After modelling a 50% reduction in Group EBITDA excluding FX and restructuring across all operations, sufficient facility headroom remained in the model across all months.

These forecasts demonstrate that MGMUK has sufficient liquidity and will be able to operate within its available facilities during the forecast period covering 12 months from the date of signing this report.

Accordingly, the Directors have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the Company’s financial statements.

Turnover is recognised at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for transportation services provided and commission received on this transportation in the normal course of business, usually the movement of a vehicle to a specific location and is shown net of VAT and other sales related taxes. The fair value of consideration takes into account any volume rebates.

Research expenditure is written off against profits in the year in which it is incurred. Identifiable development expenditure is capitalised to the extent that the technical, commercial and financial feasibility can be demonstrated.

Amortisation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.

Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.

The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Financial assets and financial liabilities are recognised on the Company’s balance sheet when the Company becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Cash and cash equivalents:

Cash and cash equivalents in the balance sheet comprise cash at banks and in hand.

Trade debtors:

Trade debtors do not carry any interest and are stated at amortised cost as reduced by appropriate allowances for estimated irrecoverable amounts. A provision for impairment is established where there is objective evidence that the Company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the debtors.  The amount of the provision is recognised in the income statement.

Trade creditors:

Trade creditors are not interest-bearing and are stated at amortised cost.

Intercompany debtors:

Interest is charged at a rate of SONIA plus 2.5%. Intercompany debtors are stated at amortised cost as reduced by appropriate allowances for estimated irrecoverable amounts.   A provision for impairment is established where there is objective evidence that the Company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the debtors. The amount of the provision is recognised in the income statement.

Financial liabilities and equity instruments:

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all of its financial liabilities.

Where the contractual obligations of financial instruments (including share capital) are equivalent to a similar debt instrument those financial instruments are classed as financial liabilities. Financial liabilities are presented as such in the balance sheet. Finance costs and gains or losses relating to financial liabilities are included in the profit and loss account. Finance costs are calculated so as to produce a constant rate of return on the outstanding liability.

Where the contractual terms of share capital do not have any terms meeting the definition of a financial liability then this is classed as an equity instrument. Dividends and distributions relating to equity instruments are debited direct to equity.

Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.

The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.

The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of intangible fixed assets.

The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.

Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

The Company has considered areas of judgement and sources of estimation uncertainty that have the most significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.

Management consider there to be no areas of judgement or key sources of estimation uncertainty to the business.

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:

Their aggregate remuneration comprised:

None of the directors received any remuneration from the Company in relation to their services to the Company in the current year or the prior year. The remuneration of two of the directors is borne by Manheim Limited and the remuneration of one of the directors is borne by Cox Automotive, Inc. It is not practicable to ascertain the proportion of the directors’ emoluments that specifically relate to this Company.

The actual charge/(credit) for the year can be reconciled to the expected charge for the year based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:

Factors affecting tax charge in future years

The standard rate of UK Corporation Tax applied to reported profit is 25% (2023: 23.5% blended rate), being the rate substantively enacted in Finance Act 2020 on 24 May 2021 with effect from 1 April 2023. All deferred tax balances as at 31 December 2024 have been calculated at 25% (2023: 25%).

The financial assets included in this note are held at undiscounted cost, are repayable on demand and are unsecured.

Interest is receivable on amounts owed by group undertaking at a rate of SONIA + 2.5% on the cumulative amount.

The group undertaking is Manheim Limited which is a 100% owned subsidiary of Cox Automotive UK Limited, the immediate parent company.

Due to the short-term nature of the financial liabilities included in this note they are held at undiscounted cost, are unsecured and are repayable on demand. The financial liabilities include trade creditors.

No interest is charged on the financial liabilities included in this note.

The following presents the deferred tax liabilities and assets recognised by the company and movements thereon:

The deferred tax asset set out above is expected to reverse within 12 months and relates to the utilisation of tax losses against future expected profits of the same period.

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund.

All of the ordinary shares have equal rights in respect of voting, participation in dividend distributions and in the event of winding up of the Company.

The profit and loss reserve represents cumulative profits or losses.

The share premium account records the amount received above the nominal value for shares issued.

At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows:

The Company’s ultimate parent company and ultimate controlling party is Cox Enterprises, Inc. The registered office of Cox Enterprises, Inc. is at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, Delaware 19808, United States of America. The parent undertaking of the largest Company, which includes the Company and for which group financial statements are prepared is Cox Enterprises, Inc. The financial statements of Cox Enterprises, Inc. are not publicly available.

The immediate parent company is Cox Automotive UK Limited. The registered office of Cox Automotive UK Limited is Central House, Leeds Road, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0JE. The parent undertaking of the smallest Company, which includes the Company and for which group financial statements are prepared, is Manheim Global Management UK Limited. Copies of the financial statements of Manheim Global Management UK Limited can be obtained from Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff CF14 3UZ, United Kingdom.