FORBIDDEN PLANET LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£5,854,407
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of retailing entertainment merchandise and books. No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-03-09
- Employees
- 174 (2025 accounts · was 167 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 144 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0UP
- Postcode
- SE1 0UP
- Capital
- 1,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 7 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-06
- Next due by
- 2026-11-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47610 Retail sale of books in specialised stores
- 47650 Retail sale of games and toys in specialised stores
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA759416 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- forbiddenplanet.com
Forbidden Planet is the world's largest and best-known comic, science fiction, fantasy and cult entertainment retailer!
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| FOCUSFIELD LIMITED | 1978-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1ST FLOOR ST BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, 92 FLEET STREET, LONDON, EC4Y 1PB | 2001-04-04 |
| 71 NEW OXFORD STREET, LONDON, WC1A 1DG | 1999-09-10 |
| 26 DENMARK ST, LONDON WC2H 8NJ | 1988-12-09 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 27 similar companies in SE
The largest employer among its local peers (174 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1978.
No.1 of the largest retail sale of books in specialised stores companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 1 among retail sale of books in specialised stores in London.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 7 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Leasehold
- 5
- Most recent registration
- 2025-03-18
- Where
- Greater London (4), Southampton (1), Tyne And Wear (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB39087 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2025-03-18 | — |
| HP873458 | Southampton | Leasehold | 2023-01-03 | — |
| NGL980447 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-07-06 | — |
| TY537851 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2016-06-21 | — |
| NGL935921 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2013-07-29 | — |
| SGL276820 | Greater London | Freehold | 2011-09-16 | — |
| WM61474 | West Midlands | Freehold | 2006-02-03 | — |
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