ELECTROSONIC LIMITED
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Cash
£17k
-63% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
-£752k
-36.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
97
-30.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
-£751k
-858.6% 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 Industrials 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 | £22,598,000 | £18,073,000 | £12,831,000 | -29% | |
| Operating profit | £61,000 | -£66,000 | -£933,000 | -1,313.6% | |
| Profit before tax | £114,000 | £99,000 | -£751,000 | -858.6% | |
| Net profit | -£282,000 | £70,000 | -£770,000 | -1,200% | |
| Cash | £139,000 | £46,000 | £17,000 | -63% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£431,000 | -£529,000 | -£723,000 | -36.7% | |
| Net assets | -£431,000 | -£552,000 | -£752,000 | -36.2% | |
| Equity | -£431,000 | -£552,000 | -£752,000 | -36.2% | |
| Average employees | 157 | 139 | 97 | -30.2% | |
| Wages | £6,377,000 | £6,595,000 | £4,862,000 | -26.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £142,000 | £191,000 | £124,000 | -35.1% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £4,000 | £2,000 | £2,000 | 0% | |
| Highest paid director | £92,000 | £116,000 | £69,000 | -40.5% |
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 | 0.3% | -0.4% | -7.3% | |
| Net margin | -1.2% | 0.4% | -6.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 104.7% | 109.4% | 123.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.93x | 0.90x | 0.81x | |
| Interest cover | 1.39x | -1.78x | -34.56x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Frazier & Deeter (UK Audit) LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial forecasts prepared by the Directors, including severe but plausible downside scenarios, demonstrate that the Company has sufficient liquidity headroom for at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “the restructuring undertaken in May 2025, which has materially reduced the Company's operating cost base.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 32 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHLSTROM, Nico Christian | Director | 2024-01-19 | Apr 1987 | Finnish |
| SMITH, Ewan Alan | Director | 2021-08-01 | Jan 1979 | American |
Show 32 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE, Alan William | Secretary | — | 1996-11-26 |
| MANN, Stephen John | Secretary | 1996-11-27 | 2018-02-12 |
| AMBROSE, David John | Director | 2003-01-01 | 2010-12-31 |
| AMINOFF, Philip Gustav | Director | 1992-08-07 | 2000-09-21 |
| ANTTILA, Ilari | Director | 2010-12-01 | 2012-12-07 |
| BANGAR, Surjit Kumar | Director | 2020-03-11 | 2022-05-30 |
| BARRETT, Peter John | Director | 2008-12-01 | 2012-01-13 |
| BOWIE, James | Director | 2010-12-01 | 2016-01-01 |
| CARPENTER, Kyle Matthies | Director | 1997-09-12 | 2008-02-05 |
| COOKE, Marc Adrian Russell | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2019-03-30 |
| COOPER, Charles Jonathan | Director | 2007-04-03 | 2009-04-27 |
| DALE, Keith Andrew | Director | 1997-01-01 | 1998-10-12 |
| FARMER, James Ashley | Director | 1999-01-01 | 2007-12-24 |
| HANCOCK, Jonathan Peter | Director | 2018-06-11 | 2021-07-31 |
| HEMMING, Simon Drew | Director | 2022-04-06 | 2023-06-01 |
| JOYCE, Sarah Emma Elizabeth | Director | 2012-08-29 | 2018-10-05 |
| KERR, David Hugh | Director | — | 1993-04-19 |
| LAWRENCE, Alan William | Director | — | 1996-11-26 |
| LEMMINGS, Colin William | Director | 2008-09-01 | 2016-07-11 |
| LOUDEN, Paul Thomas | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2018-06-29 |
| MADEJA, Kevin Stanley | Director | 1997-01-01 | 1998-10-15 |
| MANN, Stephen John | Director | 1998-01-29 | 2018-02-12 |
| MEYER, Scott James | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2016-01-01 |
| MURPHY, Kevin Robert | Director | 1997-01-01 | 2007-11-30 |
| OEHLERT, Andreas Kurt | Director | 1993-04-05 | 1993-08-12 |
| QUICK, Adrian Timothy | Director | 1997-01-01 | 1998-02-28 |
| SIMPSON, Robert Spencer | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| SMITH, Peter Lionel | Director | 1993-07-13 | 2010-08-04 |
| STINTON, Robert Leslie Charles | Director | — | 1993-11-15 |
| STUART, Donald Clive | Director | 2019-02-11 | 2021-03-23 |
| WARD, Christopher Graham | Director | 2018-10-08 | 2019-12-31 |
| WAY, Peter William | Director | — | 1993-10-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrosonic Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-06-29 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 226 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-04-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-22 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-29 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-04-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-08-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.