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Frank Smythson Limited
Retail sale of leather goods in specialised stores
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 20
- Pierre Maurice Gilbert Mallevays 2023-2024 View profile
- Jonathan Hart 2023-2024 View profile
- Armando Patrick Marino Macrory 2023-2025 View profile
- Bahbout, Jacqueline Louise, Sara 2021-2025 View profile
- Zoe Jane Elizabeth Colegrave 2021-2024 View profile
- Xavier Rougeaux 2018-2021 View profile
- Stefano Giacomelli 2018-2025 View profile
- Luc Matthew Goidadin 2018-2024 View profile
- Jason Antony John Ward 2015-2020 View profile
- Mark David Daley 2015-2016 View profile
- Andrew Girard Janowski 2010-2013 View profile
- Yvonne Carol Robinson 2009-2025 View profile
- Jacques . Bahbout 2009-2025 View profile
- Sion Paul Kearsey 2005-2009 View profile
- Raymond Michael Cork 1998-2005 View profile
- Sarah Elizabeth Elton 1998-2005 View profile
- Annie Marie Reine Guerard 2009-2011 View profile
- Sanjay Patel 2007-2009 View profile
- Mark Leslie Vivian Esiri 2005-2009 View profile
- Paul Roberts 1998-2000 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Retail sale of leather goods in specialised stores
- Incorporated
- 08/07/1998
- Registered office
- London
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Holdsmyth Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
Group
- Frank Smythson Limited
is controlled by Holdsmyth Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - Holdsmyth Limited
is controlled by Smythson Bidco Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2025-07-29 · source: Companies House PSC register - Smythson Bidco Limited
is controlled by Iconic Holdco (UK) Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2025-06-17 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Iconic Holdco (UK) Limited.
5 other companies in this group
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Financials
- Net assets
- -£15,698,000
- Total assets
- -£487,000
- Cash
- £917,000
- Employees
- 148
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
- Profit/loss
- -£1,037,000
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-03-30. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
3 directors on the board
- Vicente Castellano Ortega Director · appointed 2025
- Paolo Porta Director · appointed 2023
- Simon Paul Tutt Director · appointed 2025
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (3)
- Vicente Castellano Ortega Director · appointed 2025
- Paolo Porta Director · appointed 2023
- Simon Paul Tutt Director · appointed 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 03594597
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 31/12/2026
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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