SAUTER AUTOMATION LIMITED
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Cash
£2.6m
-3.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£5.3m
-2.6% vs 2024
Employees
136
-0.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1.3m
+49.1% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £25,386,000 | £29,156,000 | +14.9% | |
| Operating profit | £840,000 | £1,263,000 | +50.4% | |
| Profit before tax | £862,000 | £1,285,000 | +49.1% | |
| Net profit | £648,000 | £862,000 | +33% | |
| Cash | £2,640,000 | £2,555,000 | -3.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,593,000 | £5,466,000 | -2.3% | |
| Net assets | £5,393,000 | £5,255,000 | -2.6% | |
| Equity | £5,393,000 | £5,255,000 | -2.6% | |
| Average employees | 137 | 136 | -0.7% | |
| Wages | £7,864,000 | £8,672,000 | +10.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £614,000 | £992,000 | +61.6% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £166,000 | £137,000 | -17.5% | |
| Highest paid director | £356,000 | £420,000 | +18% |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 4.3% | |
| Net margin | 2.6% | 3.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.0% | 23.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 49.1% | 56.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.72x | 1.55x |
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 1 time since incorporation
- SAUTER AUTOMATION LIMITED 1977-12-31 → present
- FR. SAUTER AUTOMATION LIMITED 1976-12-30 → 1977-12-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Stewart & Co Accountants LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- SAUTER AUTOMATION LIMITED · parent
- Wren Environmental Limited 75%
Significant events
- “Despite the demise of an MEP contractor during the course of the year, who we were engaged with to deliver a large residential development in central London we were able to re-engage with the actual developer with minor impact on the business.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCKENZIE, Andrew Turner | Secretary | 2016-12-01 | — | — |
| CLINCH, Mark John | Director | 2009-01-01 | Apr 1969 | British |
| DOLLEY, Neil | Director | 2025-05-28 | Aug 1966 | British |
| KARLEN, Werner | Director | 2015-01-01 | Jan 1967 | Swiss |
| MCKENZIE, Andrew Turner | Director | 2016-12-01 | Nov 1981 | British |
| WRIGHT, Ian | Director | 2025-05-28 | Nov 1962 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCKLEY, John Charles | Secretary | — | 2016-12-01 |
| BARANYAI, Laurent | Director | 2017-07-13 | 2019-06-13 |
| BUCKLEY, John Charles | Director | 1994-05-01 | 2016-12-01 |
| CHURCH, Clive Robert | Director | 2007-09-01 | 2015-11-23 |
| FITZGERALD, John Richard | Director | — | 2002-03-14 |
| KAHLERT, Erik | Director | 2015-11-27 | 2017-02-28 |
| LEIMGRUBER, Joseph Antoine, Doctor | Director | 1999-05-31 | 2002-03-14 |
| REID, Chris | Director | 2020-02-06 | 2023-10-06 |
| SCHMITZ, Bertram | Director | 2006-03-17 | 2014-08-12 |
| SCHWARTZENTRUBER, Jean | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2015-10-19 |
| SWINDELLS, Philip | Director | — | 2007-09-07 |
| THOMPSON, Paul | Director | 2024-08-01 | 2025-05-28 |
| WAGNER, Hanspeter | Director | — | 1999-05-31 |
| WEBER, Rudolf | Director | 2002-03-14 | 2006-03-17 |
| ZIEGLER, Harald | Director | 2009-01-01 | 2013-03-28 |
| ZIEGLER, Harald | Director | 2001-03-19 | 2003-02-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F R Sauter Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-04-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 156 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-08 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-08-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-04-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- 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.