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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
The directors present the strategic report for the year ended 31 July 2025.
During the year ended 31 July 2025, the UK hospitality sector continued to operate against a demanding economic backdrop. Headline CPI inflation fell to 1.7% in September 2024 but subsequently rose, reaching 3.8% in July 2025. Services inflation remained elevated at 5.0% in July 2025, maintaining pressure on wages and other service-led input costs. Although Bank Rate was reduced progressively from 5.25% at the start of the period to 4.25% by May 2025, borrowing costs remained restrictive and household discretionary spending continued to be sensitive to cost-of-living pressures.
References: Office for National Statistics, Consumer price inflation, UK: July 2025; Bank of England, Monetary Policy Summary, May 2025.
Sector-specific pressures remained significant throughout the year. Hospitality accounted for approximately 2.8 million jobs in the three months to June 2024, or 7.5% of all UK jobs, while businesses continued to identify energy prices, taxation, weaker demand, materials and labour costs as principal challenges. The sector’s vacancy rate was above the all-industry average in the three months to September 2024, at 3.6 vacancies per 100 workers compared with 2.6 across the economy, illustrating the recruitment and retention pressures carried into the review period. More broadly, UK GDP grew by 0.7% in the first quarter of 2025 and by 0.3% in the second quarter, indicating positive but slowing economic momentum as the year end approached.
References: House of Commons Library, Support for pubs and the hospitality sector, 21 October 2024; Office for National Statistics, GDP first quarterly estimate, UK: April to June 2025.
Labour costs were a particularly salient issue during the year. The National Living Wage was £11.44 per hour from the start of the period and increased by 6.7% to £12.21 on 1 April 2025. From 6 April 2025, the employer National Insurance rate increased from 13.8% to 15%, while the secondary threshold fell from £9,100 to £5,000. These measures created a substantial additional cost for labour-intensive hospitality businesses during the final four months of the financial year, partly offset for eligible employers by the increase in the Employment Allowance to £10,500.
References: Low Pay Commission, Minimum wage rates for 2025; HM Revenue & Customs, employer National Insurance and Employment Allowance changes.
The Group reported a profit for the year, generated positive cash flows, and maintained adequate liquidity throughout the period. The Group also continues to benefit from funding provided by the directors' private pension scheme, with the flexibility to vary the repayment profile should this be required to meet fluctuating cash flow demands.
In addition, the Group holds a portfolio of property assets, which provide significant balance sheet strength and could be converted into cash if additional funds were required. Furthermore, these assets are held at depreciated historic cost as opposed to current market valuation and therefore there is significant uncapitalised collateral within the Group balance sheet. Having considered the Group's cash flow forecasts, available funding and asset base, the directors are satisfied that the Group has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.
The Group’s principal risks at the year-end were rising labour, supplier and utility costs, fragile consumer confidence and softer event demand. These risks were managed through disciplined pricing, procurement, labour scheduling, venue utilisation and cash control, while growth opportunities included targeted contract wins, improved revenue management and operating efficiencies.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
The Group will continue to grow turnover and trade its way out of the restrictions of previous years, expecting a strong return of the hospitality sector. Profits are expected to return in 2026 to levels achieved historically.
1. Annual turnover:- 12 months to 31/07/25 = £15.3m 12 months to 31/07/24 = £16.9m 2. Operating Profit/(loss):- 12 months to 31/07/25 = £350k 12 months to 31/07/24- (£1,761k)
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf by:
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2025.
The profit for the year, after taxation and minority interests, amounted to £504,011 (2024 - loss £1,656,391).
The directors do not recommend a payment of a dividend for the period.
The directors who served during the year were:
The directors are responsible for preparing the Group Strategic Report, the Directors' Report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Group's financial statements 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 Group 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 the Group and to 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 the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
Under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006, PEM Audit Limited will be deemed to have been reappointed as auditors 28 days after these financial statements were sent to members or 28 days after the latest date prescribed for filing the accounts with the registrar, whichever is earlier.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf by:
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Crown Holdings Limited (the 'Parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') for the year ended 31 July 2025, which comprise the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Consolidated Balance Sheet, the Company Balance Sheet, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, the Company Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, 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 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 Group's or the Parent 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.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' 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.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Group 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 Group 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 Group and the Parent Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Group Strategic Report or the Directors' Report.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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 Auditors' 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 Group financial statements.
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:
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:
∙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 Group through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the hospitality sector;
∙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 Group, including the Companies Act 2006 and relevant taxation legislation;
∙in addition, we considered provisions of other laws and regulations which do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which might be fundamental to the company's ability to operate or to avoid material penalties;
∙we obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the Group and of the Group’s policies and procedures on compliance with laws and regulations, including documentation of any instances of non-compliance;
∙we made enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud;
∙we obtained an understanding of the Group’s risk assessment process, including the risk of fraud;
∙we assessed the susceptibility of the Group’s financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur; and
∙laws and regulations identified were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
As a result of the above risk assessment procedures we identified the greatest risk of material misstatement on the financial statements arising from irregularities and fraud to be within the potential for management to override controls together with the risk of fraudulent revenue recognition. We considered the risk of fraudulent revenue recognition to be most prevalent in the cut-off of revenue. In response to these identified risks, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
∙performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
∙performed audit work over the risk of management override of controls, including testing of journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness, evaluating the business rationale of significant transactions outside the normal course of business;
∙we evaluated the assumptions and judgements used by management within significant accounting estimates and assessed whether these indicated evidence of management bias;
∙we used Audit Data Analytics to review the client data for unusual trends/anomalies;
∙performed substantive testing for a sample of revenue transactions and assessed whether revenue was recognised in the correct financial period; and
∙performed substantive testing for a sample of transactions from source documentation through to despatch note, invoice raised and to revenue recognised during the year.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
∙we agreed the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
∙we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
∙we discussed with management actual and potential litigation and claims.
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 Auditors' Report.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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 Auditors' 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.
for and on behalf of
Statutory Auditor
Station Road
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 04066827
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 04066827
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 JULY 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 21 to 44 form part of these financial statements.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 04066827
COMPANY BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 04066827
COMPANY BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 JULY 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 21 to 44 form part of these financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024
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COMPANY STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
14.TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS (CONTINUED)
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
The 2025 valuations were made by the directors, on an open market value basis, based on professional advice received.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
23.DEFERRED TAXATION (CONTINUED)
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
Share premium account
Revaluation reserve
Profit and loss account
During the prior year the Company transferred certain land and properties to a directors’ pension scheme. At the same time the loan between the Company and the pension scheme was reduced by a compensating amount. The assets were transferred to the pension scheme at £400k being the insurance value of the assets at the date of the transfer. The net book value of these assets was in excess of the insurance value of the assets in the Company’s accounts and accordingly the residual value of the assets should have been recognised as a loss on disposal of fixed assets in the prior year.
During the prior year the Company did not fully eliminate the disposal of this fixed asset from their accounts and included within fixed assets was an amount of £852k in connection with this asset. This should have been eliminated on disposal in the prior year and, accordingly, represents a material prior year error. An adjustment has been made in these financial statements to correct this error with the following impact on the comparatives:
∙Reduction in tangible fixed assets of £852k; and
∙Increase in loss on disposal of fixed assets £852k
The adjustment has no impact on the Company’s brought forward reserves.
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CROWN HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
The Group operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Group in an independently administered fund. The pension cost represents contributions payable by the Group to the fund and amounted to £191,301 (2024 - £205,115). Contributions amounting to £20,141 (2024 - £20,000) were payable to the fund at the balance sheet date.
The Group is controlled by Mr R L C Morgan, director, by virtue of his ownership of the majority of the issued share capital of the parent company.
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