Universal Music (UK) Holdings: version 2
Saved 2026-09-22 20:50 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of company/universal-music-uk-holdings. (1) flagged/owner_unknown: added an owned_by row to company/universal-music-holdings at status sourced, from 2016-04-06, cited to the existing ^ch-umukh-psc reference; I re-fetched the 03383881 persons-with-significant-control page through /bot/fetch and it names Universal Music Holdings Limited (05344517) as the sole active PSC, notified 6 April 2016, with 75%+ of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. Updated that reference row's accessed date to 2026-09-22 to match the re-verification. The ultimate parent stays as the existing parent_org row to company/universal-music-group at derived; I trimmed its note to state the register chain as fact rather than as narration. The walk-up is complete and needs no stubs: company/universal-music-holdings already exists (owned_by company/universal-music-group), and company/universal-music-group already carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent. (2) absence_prose: removed the second About paragraph in full ('No source read for this page gives the company a website...'), which was pure research narration; no other narration sentences remained. No new References rows were added (all four were already present). No stubs created.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Universal Music (UK) Holdings <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Universal Music (UK) Holdings
summary: London-registered head-office company in the Universal Music group; sole person with significant control of Universal Music Leisure Limited since April 2016.
legal_name: Universal Music (UK) Holdings Limited
registered_address: 4 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG, United Kingdom
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:03383881
founded: 1997-06-09
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/universal-music-holdings | | 2016-04-06 | | | sourced | ^ch-umukh-psc | Sole active person with significant control since 6 April 2016: ownership of 75% or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors |
| parent_org | company/universal-music-group | | 2021-09-21 | | | derived | ^ch-umh-psc | This company's registered owner is Universal Music Holdings Limited (05344517), whose own PSC has been Universal Music Group N.V. since 21 September 2021, Vivendi SE before |
<!--/relations-->
## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | 4 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG, United Kingdom | GB | ^ch-umukh | Registered office; nature of business SIC 70100, activities of head offices |
<!--/establishments-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Universal Music (UK) Holdings Limited | legal | en | | |
| PolyGram (UK) Holdings Limited | legal | en | 1997-07-21 | 1999-03-29 |
| Backcite Limited | legal | en | 1997-06-09 | 1997-07-21 |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | -------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-umukh | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03383881 | Companies House: UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UK) HOLDINGS LIMITED (03383881) | 2026-09-18 | Companies House | registry | | 03383881 | | | | |
| ch-umukh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03383881/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UK) HOLDINGS LIMITED persons with significant control | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 03383881 | | | | |
| ch-uml-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03384487/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: UNIVERSAL MUSIC LEISURE LIMITED persons with significant control | 2026-09-18 | Companies House | registry | | 03384487 | | | | |
| ch-umh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05344517/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: UNIVERSAL MUSIC HOLDINGS LIMITED persons with significant control | 2026-09-18 | Companies House | registry | | 05344517 | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Universal Music (UK) Holdings Limited is a private limited company registered in England under number 03383881, incorporated on 9 June 1997 as Backcite Limited, renamed PolyGram (UK) Holdings Limited on 21 July 1997 and given its present name on 29 March 1999; it is active, its registered office is 4 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG and its nature of business is head-office activities (SIC 70100).[^ch-umukh] It is the only person with significant control of Universal Music Leisure Limited, the Barcodepedia page that names it, holding 75% or more of that company's shares and voting rights since 6 April 2016.[^ch-uml-psc] Its own registered owner, on the same terms and from the same date, is Universal Music Holdings Limited, company 05344517,[^ch-umukh-psc] whose controlling shareholder has been Universal Music Group N.V. of Hilversum since 21 September 2021 and was Vivendi SE before that.[^ch-umh-psc]
<!--/about-->