THE RANDOM HOUSE GROUP LIMITED, SW11 7BW : Companies House Number 00954009

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1969-05-12
Registered office: One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, United Kingdom, SW11 7BW
Postcode: SW11 7BW
Capital: 81,956,072 GBP
Accounts category: Full
Charges: 1 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: 2026-01-21
Next due by: 2027-02-04

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Nature of business (SIC)

58110 Book publishing

Officers 5 current · 27 resigned

Nihar MALAVIYA Director

Appointed 2023-01-01

MR Robert Angus WADDINGTON Director

Appointed 2017-01-31

MS Sinead Mary MARTIN Secretary

Appointed 2016-06-30

MR Thomas Daryl WELDON Director

Appointed 2013-07-01

MR Mark William GARDINER Director

Appointed 2000-07-03

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Group structure 40 subsidiaries

Controlled by PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

Showing 12 of 40.

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2360513 (Tier 3), registered since 2010.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

1.3%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity

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Contact details

Website: therandomhousegroup.co.uk

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Previous company names

Name	Date changed
RANDOM HOUSE UK LIMITED	1999-07-02
THE RANDOM CENTURY GROUP LIMITED	1992-05-27
RANDOM HOUSE U.K. LTD.	1989-11-06
CHATTO, VIRAGO, BODLEY HEAD & JONATHAN CAPE LTD.	1988-02-01
CHATTO, BODLEY HEAD & JONATHAN CAPE LIMITED	1985-01-01

Previous registered addresses 4

Address	Changed on
31 BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, WC1B 3EG	1990-03-28
31 BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, WC1B 3EG	1990-03-28
9 BOW STREET, LONDON, WC2E 7AL	1988-05-13
9 BOW STREET, LONDON, WC2E 7AL	1988-05-13

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 288 similar companies in SW, trading since 1969

75 companies are registered at this postcode →

Property in England & Wales 9 titles

Freehold: 5
Leasehold: 4
Most recent registration: 2024-08-05
Where: North Northamptonshire (2), Lincolnshire (2), Suffolk (2)

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
NN401888	North Northamptonshire	Leasehold	2024-08-05	—
LL429326	Lincolnshire	Leasehold	2024-06-20	—
NGL953921	Greater London	Leasehold	2015-09-08	—
SK277739	Suffolk	Freehold	2006-06-06	—
SK214523	Suffolk	Freehold	2002-01-25	—
LL172146	Lincolnshire	Freehold	2001-10-16	—
NN214926	North Northamptonshire	Leasehold	2000-04-11	—
EX140225	Essex	Freehold	1998-05-21	—
EX551693	Essex	Freehold	1996-05-09	—

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