FREUD COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Company number 02478112 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Freud Communications operates as a high-margin, premium player in the strategic communications sector, leveraging its elite reputation and crisis management capabilities to sustain profitability despite top-line volatility. The primary strategic imperatives are reversing the multi-year decline in cash reserves and mitigating key-person dependency to protect and extend the firm's enterprise value beyond its founder.
Shareholders' funds
£12,258,047
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
Advertising agencies
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1990-03-07
- Employees
- 181 (2024 accounts · was 178 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 1 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1AL
- Postcode
- W1T 1AL
- Capital
- 13,248 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-07
- Next due by
- 2027-03-21
Nature of business (SIC)
- 73110 Advertising agencies
Officers 2 current · 37 resigned
Group structure 11 subsidiaries
Controlled by FREUDS GROUP LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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187 COMPANY LIMITED Dissolved
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BREW LONDON LIMITED Dissolved
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FREUDS SIGNATURE LIMITED Dissolved
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J&M SANDWICH LIMITED Dissolved
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ONENINETHREE LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
£179,087 total awarded value where published.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (Worker (A rating)), Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) — 4 years on the registry.
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Contact details
- Website
- freud.com
Freuds is a full service communications agency. We shape policy, shift behaviour and build culture through strategy, creative, content, events and crisis.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| JAYSTONE PLC | 1990-04-19 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 55 NEWMAN STREET, LONDON, W1T 3EB | 2015-02-02 |
| 19/21 MORTIMER STREET, LONDON, W1T 3DX | 2007-08-10 |
| 93 NEWMAN STREET, LONDON, W1P 4MQ | 1997-03-19 |
| 120 EAST ROAD, LONDON, N1 6AA | 1991-05-30 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 954 similar companies in W
3rd largest employer among its local peers (181 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1990.
No.2 of the largest advertising agencies companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 2 among advertising agencies in London.
The class of 1990
50%
of the 20,398 companies incorporated in 1990 are still active today; 45% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2014-10-16
- Where
- Greater London
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGL946263 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2014-10-16 | — |
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