MERCER LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-01 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£54M
+3.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£1B
-4.6% vs 2024
Employees
2,548
-4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£96M
+52.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £577,000,000 | £610,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £13,000,000 | £47,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £63,000,000 | £96,000,000 | |
| Net profit | £28,000,000 | £60,000,000 | |
| Cash | £52,000,000 | £54,000,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,082,000,000 | £1,060,000,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,328,000,000 | £1,267,000,000 | |
| Equity | £1,328,000,000 | £1,267,000,000 | |
| Average employees | 2,655 | 2,548 | |
| Wages | £222,000,000 | £221,000,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £3,000,000 | £3,000,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
+5.7%
£577,000,000 £610,000,000
-
Cash
+3.8%
£52,000,000 £54,000,000
-
Net assets
-4.6%
£1,328,000,000 £1,267,000,000
-
Employees
-4%
2,655 2,548
-
Operating profit
+261.5%
£13,000,000 £47,000,000
-
Profit before tax
+52.4%
£63,000,000 £96,000,000
-
Wages
-0.5%
£222,000,000 £221,000,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.3% | 7.7% | |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 9.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.2% | 4.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 8.6% | 6.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.32x | 2.79x | |
| Interest cover | 13.00x | 47.00x |
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 9 times since incorporation
- MERCER LIMITED 2007-09-12 → present
- MERCER HUMAN RESOURCE CONSULTING LIMITED 2002-04-05 → 2007-09-12
- WILLIAM M. MERCER LIMITED 1993-03-01 → 2002-04-05
- WILLIAM M. MERCER FRASER LIMITED 1993-02-12 → 1993-03-01
- WILLIAM M. MERCER FRASER LIMITED 1986-05-01 → 1993-02-12
- WILLIAM M. MERCER - MPA (U.K.) LIMITED 1984-11-01 → 1986-05-01
- WILLIAM M.MERCER - BOWRING LIMITED 1984-01-01 → 1984-11-01
- WILLIAM M. MERCER LIMITED 1983-02-16 → 1984-01-01
- WILLIAM M. MERCER BENEFITS LIMITED 1976-12-31 → 1983-02-16
- WILLIAM M MERCER-BOWRING LIMITED 1970-07-10 → 1976-12-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having assessed the responses to their enquiries, the Directors have no reason to believe that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt upon the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern. The directors acknowledge the latest guidance on going concern. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period of twelve months from the date of the approval of the financial statements and, therefore, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- MERCER LIMITED · parent
- Darwin Technologies Holdings Limited 100%
- Darwin Technologies Limited 100%
- Marsh McLennan India Limited 100%
- JLT Consultants and Actuaries Limited 100%
- Marsh McLennan India Holdings Limited 100%
- JLT Investment Management Limited 100%
- JLT Wealth Management Limited 100%
- Mercer ICC Limited 100%
- Moola Systems Limited 100%
- Profund Solutions Limited 100%
- Sedgwick Financial Services Limited 100%
- Sedgwick Noble Lowndes Limited 100%
- Sedgwick Noble Lowndes (UK) Limited 100%
- Sedgwick Ulster Pension Trustees Limited 100%
- Settlement Trustees Limited 100%
- The Benefit Express Holdings Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 January 2026 the business and assets of Cardano Advisory Limited, a fellow Group subsidiary, were acquired resulting in the Company recognising an addition to its goodwill balances of £21.4 million.”
- “On the same date the Company acquired the entire share capital of NOW: Pensions Limited from another group subsidiary which resulted in the Company recognising an additional investment balance of £115.4 million.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 71 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAMSEYER, Ashton | Secretary | 2021-07-29 | — | — |
| BRIGHTMORE-ARMOUR, Diana Sarah | Director | 2020-10-19 | Mar 1954 | British |
| ERASMUS, Maureen Anne | Director | 2025-09-30 | Jun 1960 | British |
| GUPTA, Ashok Kumar | Director | 2021-01-05 | Aug 1954 | British |
| O'DWYER, Tony | Director | 2024-11-01 | Apr 1970 | Irish |
| PARKINSON, Philip Anthony James | Director | 2024-03-28 | Oct 1985 | British |
Show 71 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRINDLEY, Maura Frances | Secretary | 2006-12-20 | 2015-01-30 |
| ELLIS, Sallie | Secretary | 2015-09-23 | 2020-04-16 |
| FERRIS, Thomas Anthony | Secretary | — | 2004-12-31 |
| MACCURRACH, Connie | Secretary | 2020-04-16 | 2020-11-30 |
| SETHI, Akhil | Secretary | 2004-12-31 | 2006-12-20 |
| ALLAN, Heather Patricia | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2001-12-31 |
| ANDERSON, David John | Director | 2019-07-01 | 2023-09-29 |
| BARFORD, David Richard | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| BARKER, Jane Victoria | Director | 2011-09-05 | 2020-10-31 |
| BENEPLANC, Gilles | Director | 2010-02-17 | 2013-03-15 |
| BROCHU, Robert Albe | Director | — | 1993-09-01 |
| CARR, Roy William | Director | 2001-11-14 | 2005-10-01 |
| CHESSHER, Mark Christopher | Director | 2023-06-01 | 2024-11-01 |
| COSTER, Peter | Director | — | 2002-07-31 |
| COUCHMAN, Paul | Director | 2002-04-18 | 2004-07-29 |
| DAVIS, Douglas Charles | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2006-03-31 |
| DAY, Michael John | Director | — | 1995-08-29 |
| DIXON, Charles Ernest | Director | — | 1997-03-31 |
| DUNSIRE, Fiona Stewart | Director | 2012-12-14 | 2019-07-09 |
| FARMAN, Ian Glencairn Crisp | Director | — | 2002-04-18 |
| FAULKNER, Keith Alan | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2001-12-31 |
| FELTON, Peter Edward | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| FERLAND, Martine Anne | Director | 2013-08-06 | 2017-07-04 |
| FERRIS, Thomas Anthony | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| FETTER, Victor | Director | 2002-12-02 | 2004-12-31 |
| GARDENER, Timothy James Anderson | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2001-01-08 |
| GREGORY, Avgi | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2006-03-31 |
| HEYWARD, Daniel | Director | 2008-03-17 | 2009-09-22 |
| HOBLE, Mark William | Director | 2001-10-25 | 2003-07-29 |
| HOLME, Catrina | Director | 2015-03-25 | 2025-06-30 |
| HUDON, Benoit | Director | 2022-07-11 | 2026-04-15 |
| HUNTER, Alastair Murdoch | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2005-07-01 |
| JOHNSON, David Gordon | Director | — | 2004-12-31 |
| JOHNSON, Roger Clark | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| KIRTON, Andrew James | Director | 2014-08-27 | 2019-01-09 |
| KIRTON, Andrew James | Director | 2001-02-10 | 2007-12-31 |
| LEIGH, Graham Richard | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2003-04-30 |
| LOW, Alistair James | Director | — | 1997-09-10 |
| MARCHLEWSKI, Alfred Ludwig | Director | 2001-10-25 | 2004-12-31 |
| MARTIN, Siobhan Elise, Dr | Director | 2013-08-06 | 2019-03-14 |
| MCCAW, Daniel Lloyd | Director | 2002-05-01 | 2005-06-03 |
| MIDDLETON, Peter Edward, Sir | Director | 2009-05-01 | 2014-07-31 |
| MOORTON, Mark Richard | Director | 2011-10-05 | 2013-07-12 |
| NELSON, Charles Derek | Director | 2002-03-22 | 2007-12-31 |
| O'DWYER, Tony | Director | 2019-07-26 | 2024-04-01 |
| O'REGAN, William Simon | Director | 2017-07-04 | 2020-11-01 |
| O'REGAN, William Simon | Director | 2011-10-05 | 2014-08-06 |
| O'REGAN, William Simon | Director | 2004-10-15 | 2007-12-31 |
| OHARE, Sean | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2002-04-18 |
| OLDHAM, Frank Trevor | Director | 2005-07-25 | 2007-12-31 |
| OLDS, Virginia Sue | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2002-05-01 |
| PEARSE, Sarah Jane | Director | 2004-01-12 | 2007-12-31 |
| POLLOCK, Gordon | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2001-09-26 |
| POZEZANAC, Sylvia | Director | 2019-07-09 | 2021-12-31 |
| RAYNER, William | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2006-12-31 |
| RAYNER, William | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2002-05-14 |
| RIGBY, Bruce Keir | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2004-03-31 |
| SALERNO, Joseph Dominick | Director | 1995-02-02 | 1999-08-01 |
| SANCHEZ, Paul Michael | Director | 2001-11-20 | 2005-10-27 |
| SETHI, Akhil | Director | 2005-01-06 | 2006-12-20 |
| SHEPHERD, Richard | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| SMITH, Steven Drummond | Director | 2010-02-05 | 2010-08-20 |
| STANDEN, John Henry | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2006-10-10 |
| TYLER, Michael John | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2006-05-31 |
| VON HOLDT, Robin | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2001-07-26 |
| WALKER, Ronald Muir | Director | — | 1999-05-15 |
| WAYLETT, Thomas Robert Brydon | Director | — | 1996-01-31 |
| WETENHALL, James Richard | Director | 2003-05-12 | 2005-07-31 |
| WHALLEY, Alan Keith | Director | 2006-09-25 | 2012-09-30 |
| WILLIAMS, David Nicholas | Director | 2007-06-15 | 2019-07-26 |
| WOOD, Frances Teresa | Director | 2000-04-20 | 2003-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mmc Uk Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 361 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-04-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-10-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.