DF Concerts Limited
Registered name: DF CONCERTS LIMITED
Part of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. groupDF Concerts Limited made £4.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
DF Concerts Limited reported £4.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025, down 34% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 112 employees. The company is classified under “activities of head offices” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2007
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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. From the filing: “The company's immediate parent undertaking is”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £72.5m | £76.6m | — |
| Cost of sales | £61.7m | £63.7m | £104m |
| Gross profit | £10.8m | £12.9m | — |
| Operating profit | £6.1m | £7.5m | — |
| Profit before tax | £6.4m | £8m | £8.4m |
| Profit after tax | £5.2m | £6.3m | £4.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.2m | £6.3m | £4.2m |
| Staff costs | — | £4.2m | £4.8m |
| Employees (average) | 95 | 93 | 112 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.2% | 8.3% | — |
| Gross margin | 14.9% | 16.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £764k | £823k | — |
| Profit per employee | £54.8k | £68.2k | £37.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.5% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲22% | ▼34.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.1% | ▲20.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £12.4m | £12.8m | £36.9m |
| Net assets | £654k | £2m | £665k |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £24.3m | £48.8m | £40.8m |
| Debtors | £81.3k | £150k | £141k |
| Deferred income | £21.3m | £44.6m | £35.8m |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£25m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £37.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▼67%
- Now £665k
- Cash at bank
- ▲189%
- Now £36.9m
- Headcount
- ▲20%
- Now 112
- Deferred income
- ▼20%
- Now £35.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▼4%
- Now £1.1m
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
- Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Live Nation Limited75–100%
- Midland Concert Promotions Group Limited75–100%
- Live Nation (Music) UK Limited75–100%
- UK Festival Holdings Limited75–100%
- DF Concerts Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- King Tut's Recordings LimitedRev. — · Profit −£2
Sister companies (12)
- Rewind Festival LimitedRev. £3.2m · Profit £204k
- Festival Republic LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gafrus LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Gone Wild Events LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hot Festivals LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Isle of Wight Festival LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lngsjm Holdco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mama & Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Maztecrose Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nova Batida Festivals LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Parklife Manchester LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Warehouse Project (Manchester) LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £4.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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