Lakrids By Bülow Limited - Limited company accounts 25.1

REGISTERED NUMBER: 13247636 (England and Wales)

Report of the Director and

Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

for

Lakrids By Bülow Limited

Page

Company Information

1

Report of the Director

2

Report of the Independent Auditors

3

Income Statement

6

Other Comprehensive Income

7

Balance Sheet

8

Statement of Changes in Equity

9

Notes to the Financial Statements

10

DIRECTOR:

E J P Smith

REGISTERED OFFICE:

10.17 Fora - One Lyric Square

1 Lyric Square

London

W6 0NB

REGISTERED NUMBER:

13247636 (England and Wales)

AUDITORS:

Krogh & Partners Limited, (Statutory Auditor)

823 Salisbury House

29 Finsbury Circus

London

EC2M 5QQ

The director presents his report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2025.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY

The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of selling of confectionary based on liquorice and other products with liquorice taste.

DIRECTOR

K F R Nilsson held office from 1 January 2025 until after 31 December 2025 but prior to the date of this report.

Changes in directors holding office from 1 January 2025 to the date of this report are as follows:

E J P Smith was appointed as a director after 31 December 2025 but prior to the date of this report.

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.

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:

E J P Smith - Director

18 September 2026

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Lakrids By Bülow Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025 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 2025 and of its profit 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.

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.

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

18 September 2026

TURNOVER

2,504,974

1,933,028

Cost of sales

1,535,090

1,228,668

GROSS PROFIT

969,884

704,360

Administrative expenses

935,191

627,142

OPERATING PROFIT

34,693

77,218

Interest receivable and similar income

1,451

816

36,144

78,034

Interest payable and similar expenses

4

21,891

21,433

PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION

14,253

56,601

Tax on profit

5

-

26,309

PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR

14,253

30,292

PROFIT FOR THE YEAR

14,253

30,292

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

-

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR

14,253

30,292

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible assets

6

242,008

448,362

CURRENT ASSETS

Stocks

42,969

27,871

Debtors

7

362,262

461,263

Cash at bank

588,833

147,666

994,064

636,800

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

8

1,141,110

1,004,453

NET CURRENT LIABILITIES

(147,046

)

(367,653

)

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

94,962

80,709

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

9

10,000

Retained earnings

84,962

70,709

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

94,962

80,709

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 18 September 2026 and were signed by:

E J P Smith - Director

Called up

share

Retained

Total

capital

earnings

equity

£

Balance at 1 January 2024

10,000

40,417

50,417

Changes in equity

Total comprehensive income

-

30,292

Balance at 31 December 2024

10,000

70,709

80,709

Changes in equity

Total comprehensive income

-

14,253

Balance at 31 December 2025

10,000

84,962

94,962

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

Lakrids By Bülow Limited 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.

The balance sheet shows current liabilities exceed current assets by £147,046. The parent company has confirmed that it will maintain financial support for the foreseeable future to enable the company to continue normal trading operations.

Related party exemption

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.

Turnover

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

Pensions

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

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.

Deferred tax

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.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation on fixed assets is provided on a straight-line basis at rates estimated to write off the cost amount, less estimated residual value, of each asset over its expected useful life of 5-10 years.

Stocks

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.

Debtors

Debtors are valued individually and provisions are made according to this valuation.

Cash at bank

Cash at bank includes bank deposits.

Creditors

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

3.	EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 18 (2024 - 17 ) .

The director of the company is also director or officer of other companies within the Group. The director's services to the company do not occupy a significant amount of his time. As such the director does not consider that he has received any remuneration for his incidental services to the company for the year ended 31 December 2025.

4.

INTEREST PAYABLE AND SIMILAR EXPENSES

2025

2024

£

Loans from group undertakings

21,891

21,433

5.

TAXATION

Analysis of the tax charge

The tax charge on the profit for the year was as follows:

2025

2024

£

Current tax:

UK corporation tax

-

16,043

Adjustments in respect of

prior years

-

10,266

Tax on profit

-

26,309

6.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Payments

Operating

on

equipment

account

Totals

£

COST

At 1 January 2025

355,608

154,781

510,389

Additions

17,072

-

17,072

Disposals

-

(154,781

)

(154,781

)

At 31 December 2025

372,680

-

372,680

DEPRECIATION

At 1 January 2025

62,027

-

62,027

Charge for year

68,645

-

68,645

At 31 December 2025

130,672

-

130,672

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 December 2025

242,008

-

242,008

At 31 December 2024

293,581

154,781

448,362

7.

DEBTORS

2025

2024

£

Amounts falling due within one year:

Trade debtors

192,431

235,203

Other debtors

6,136

68,109

Prepayments

88,241

68,301

286,808

371,613

Amounts falling due after more than one year:

Other debtors

75,454

89,650

Aggregate amounts

362,262

461,263

8.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

2025

2024

£

Trade creditors

67,427

97,624

Amounts owed to group undertakings

786,912

602,521

Tax

36,575

Social security and other taxes

14,717

8,413

VAT

162,151

210,532

Other creditors

1,532

1,462

Accruals and deferred income

71,796

47,326

1,141,110

1,004,453

9.	CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:

Number:

Class:

Nominal

2025

2024

value:

£

10,000

Ordinary

1

10,000

10.	FUTURE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

At 31 December 2025 the company had commitments under non-cancellable operating leases of £561,066

(2024 - £684,345)

11.	ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The immediate parent undertaking is Lakrids by Johan Bülow A/S.

The smallest group to consolidate these financial statements is Lakrids by Johan Bülow A/S. Copies can be obtained from:

Lakrids by Johan Bülow A/S

Sydholmen 7

DK-2650 Hvidovre

Denmark