DERTOUR UK LIMITED
Trading primarily under the Kuoni brand, the company is a UK-based tour operator and package holiday provider operating as a subsidiary of the German travel company DERTOUR Group.
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Cash
£25m
+195.7% vs 2024
Net assets
-£13m
-134.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
679
+5.1% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£3m
-31.7% lowest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Negative shareholders' funds
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £261,714,000 | £329,954,000 | £350,896,000 | +6.3% | |
| Operating profit | £4,132,000 | £3,181,000 | £4,310,000 | +35.5% | |
| Profit before tax | £6,454,000 | £4,445,000 | £3,034,000 | -31.7% | |
| Net profit | £5,240,000 | £3,128,000 | £1,468,000 | -53.1% | |
| Cash | £25,772,000 | £8,429,000 | £24,926,000 | +195.7% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,116,000 | £64,496,000 | £17,578,000 | -72.7% | |
| Net assets | £35,885,000 | £39,025,000 | -£13,353,000 | -134.2% | |
| Equity | £35,885,000 | £39,025,000 | -£13,353,000 | -134.2% | |
| Average employees | 560 | 646 | 679 | +5.1% | |
| Wages | £22,867,000 | £27,789,000 | £30,531,000 | +9.9% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £638,000 | £785,000 | £704,000 | -10.3% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £17,000 | £27,000 | — | — | |
| Highest paid director | £150,000 | £457,000 | £390,000 | -14.7% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.6% | 1.0% | 1.2% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 0.9% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.6% | 4.9% | 24.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 76.7% | 79.0% | 104.4% | |
| Current ratio | 0.98x | 0.82x | 0.61x | |
| Interest cover | 31.54x | 1.98x | 0.81x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2026-02-16
- DERTOUR UK LIMITED 2026-02-16 → present
- DER TOURISTIK UK LIMITED 2017-08-30 → 2026-02-16
- KUONI TRAVEL LIMITED 1945-05-25 → 2017-08-30
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the Group and Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- DERTOUR UK LIMITED · parent
- Kirker Travel Limited 100%
- Corfu Villas Limited 100%
- Jules Verne Transport Limited 100%
- Carrier Ltd 100%
- Kirker Travel Services Limited 100%
- CV Villas Transport Limited 100%
- Carrier Transport Limited 100%
- DER Touristik Transport UK Limited 100%
- Jules Verne Ltd 100%
- Journey Latin America Limited 100%
- Solmar Villas Limited 100%
- Hotelplan (U.K.) Group Limited 100%
- Hotelplan Limited 100%
- Hotelplan (Transport) Limited 100%
- Inntravel Limited 100%
- Itinerary Limited 100%
- Hotelplan Internationale Reiseorganisation GmbH 100%
- Inter Chalet Ferienhaus A.G. 100%
- Hotelplan Travel Srl 100%
- Explore Worldwide Limited 100%
- Explore Aviation Limited 100%
- Adventure Travel Experience Inc 100%
- Explore Worldwide Adventure Ltd 100%
- Explore Worldwide Australia 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 December 2025, the Group acquired 100% of the issued share capital of Hotelplan (U.K. Group) Limited ("Hotelplan UK") from MTCH AG, a fellow subsidiary within the group headed by REWE ZentralFinanz eG.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEACOCK, Andrew James | Secretary | 2022-08-19 | — | — |
| BOESCH, Benjamin Nathanael | Director | 2026-02-27 | Jan 1982 | Swiss |
| QUINLISK, Matthew John | Director | 2022-08-19 | Jul 1982 | English |
| TORRILLA, Francis | Director | 2015-04-30 | Sep 1960 | English |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLARD, Roderic Derek | Secretary | — | 1993-07-31 |
| NORMAN, Mark Richard | Secretary | 2004-06-16 | 2015-04-20 |
| QUINLISK, Matthew John | Secretary | 2015-04-20 | 2022-08-19 |
| WRIGHT, Robin Edward | Secretary | 1993-07-31 | 2004-06-16 |
| BIGGS, Sue Anne Hilbre | Director | 1995-04-03 | 2007-06-30 |
| DIETHELM, Peter | Director | — | 2005-06-30 |
| EDMUNDS, Joanna Catherine Marchand | Director | 2009-11-01 | 2012-05-11 |
| GULLOTTI, Riccardo Gaetano | Director | 1995-01-01 | 1999-04-14 |
| HARTMANN, Soren | Director | 2015-09-11 | 2017-10-17 |
| HEINIGER, Kurt | Director | — | 1996-07-31 |
| HUGHES, Nicholas Beaumont Tudor | Director | 2007-08-15 | 2009-10-31 |
| JONES, Derek | Director | 2012-05-11 | 2022-08-19 |
| KATZ, Max Ernst | Director | 1996-01-05 | 2010-12-01 |
| LERCH, Hans Ulrich | Director | 1999-07-29 | 2005-04-21 |
| LOEFFEL, Conrad | Director | — | 1995-04-03 |
| MAAG, Hermann | Director | 1995-04-03 | 1996-01-05 |
| MEIER, Armin | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2007-12-31 |
| MEIER, Peter | Director | 2010-12-01 | 2015-09-11 |
| MILLARD, Roderic Derek | Director | — | 1993-07-31 |
| NORMAN, Mark Richard | Director | 2001-04-19 | 2015-04-30 |
| OES, Peter | Director | — | 1994-12-31 |
| PEYER, Thomas | Director | 2015-04-30 | 2015-09-11 |
| SCHNABEL, Boris | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2023-06-28 |
| VASE LARSEN, Leif | Director | 2015-12-14 | 2023-06-28 |
| VASE LARSEN, Leif | Director | 2010-07-01 | 2013-03-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 188 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-08-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-02-16 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-08-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-08-20 | RP01SH01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-05-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-16 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-08-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.