Four Marketing & Media Limited
Registered name: FOUR MARKETING & MEDIA LIMITED
Part of FCG Worldwide Limited groupFour Marketing & Media Limited made £14.7m revenue and £305k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Four Marketing & Media Limited’s revenue was £14.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £305k profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “advertising agencies” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.7m | £14.7m |
| Cost of sales | £10.9m | £11.8m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £2.9m |
| Operating profit | £173k | £406k |
| Profit before tax | £173k | £406k |
| Profit after tax | £167k | £305k |
| Profit (best available) | £167k | £305k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 20 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 25.7% | 19.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £524k | £733k |
| Profit per employee | £6k | £15.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲82.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼28.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £8.3k | £45.3k |
| Net assets | £7m | £7.3m |
| Fixed assets | £9.4m | £9.4m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £2.2m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £581k |
| Deferred income | £948k | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £733k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 64%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲4%
- Now £7.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲446%
- Now £45.3k
- Headcount
- ▼29%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- ▲42%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £9.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- FCG Worldwide Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Four Agency Worldwide Limited75–100%
- Four Marketing & Media Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Four Msa LimitedRev. £21.5m · Profit £1.6m
Sister companies (8)
- Four Communications LimitedRev. £17.3m · Profit −£661k
- Four Broadgate Mainland LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Four Colman Getty LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Four Cymru Fba LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Four Health Communications LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Four Rain LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Insight Public Affairs LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Legend Engage LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £305k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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