ONCE UPON A TIME MARKETING LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
-£15,811,225
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-07-22
- Employees
- 117 (2025 accounts · was 111 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 98 Theobalds Road (1st Floor), London, England, WC1X 8WB
- Postcode
- WC1X 8WB
- Capital
- 1,575,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-16
- Next due by
- 2027-07-30
Nature of business (SIC)
- 73110 Advertising agencies
Officers 2 current · 54 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ONCE UPON A TIME CREATIVE LIMITED — since 2025-11-17
Controlled by TAUO 2025 LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA353116 (Tier 1), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| COUTTS RETAIL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 2014-07-24 |
| SHELFCO (NO. 1364) LIMITED | 1997-10-23 |
Previous registered addresses 11
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BELLWAY COURT, SILKWOOD PARK, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 7TL | 2013-07-09 |
| C/O MEDIA SQUARE PLC, CLARENCE, MILL, CLARENCE ROAD, BOLLINGTON, CHESHIRE, SK10 5JZ | 2008-03-29 |
| C/O MEDIA SQUARE PLC, CLARENCE, MILL, CLARENCE ROAD, BOLLINGTON, CHESHIRE, SK10 5JZ | 2008-03-29 |
| QUEENS AVENUE, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE, SK10 2BN | 2007-03-06 |
| QUEENS AVENUE, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE, SK10 2BN | 2007-03-06 |
| CORBAR HALL, CORBAR ROAD, BUXTON, DERBYSHIRE SK27 6TF | 2004-11-29 |
| CORBAR HALL, CORBAR ROAD, BUXTON, DERBYSHIRE SK27 6TF | 2004-11-29 |
| VIOLET ROAD, LONDON, E3 3QL | 2004-10-28 |
| VIOLET ROAD, LONDON, E3 3QL | 2004-10-28 |
| 50 STRATTON STREET, LONDON, W1X 6NX | 1997-11-14 |
| 50 STRATTON STREET, LONDON, W1X 6NX | 1997-11-14 |
Among its peers
2nd largest employer
of 433 similar companies in WC, with 117 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors London
This company ranks 749 among advertising agencies in London.
The class of 1997
44%
of the 50,527 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.