HELLER MACHINE TOOLS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-15 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-01
Watchouts
Cash
£5K
+83.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
+1.4% vs 2023
Employees
147
-5.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£265K
-59.8% vs 2023
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
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £60,644,228 | £60,843,504 | |
| Operating profit | — | £1,114,809 | £607,811 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £659,565 | £264,961 | |
| Net profit | — | £397,595 | £133,495 | |
| Cash | £92,690 | £2,647 | £4,850 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £15,156,977 | £11,123,540 | |
| Net assets | — | £9,877,842 | £10,011,337 | |
| Equity | £9,480,247 | £9,877,842 | £10,011,337 | |
| Average employees | — | 156 | 147 | |
| Wages | — | £5,887,796 | £5,509,910 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £168,575 | £180,882 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+0.3%
£60,644,228 £60,843,504
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Cash
+83.2%
£2,647 £4,850
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Net assets
+1.4%
£9,877,842 £10,011,337
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Employees
-5.8%
156 147
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Operating profit
-45.5%
£1,114,809 £607,811
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Profit before tax
-59.8%
£659,565 £264,961
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Wages
-6.4%
£5,887,796 £5,509,910
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 | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 1.8% | 1.0% | |
| Net margin | — | 0.7% | 0.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 7.4% | 5.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 65.3% | 44.2% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.79x | 2.00x | |
| Interest cover | — | 2.45x | 1.69x |
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
- HELLER MACHINE TOOLS LIMITED 1999-03-24 → present
- HELLER MACHINE TOOLS (U.K.) LIMITED 1979-02-09 → 1999-03-24
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- MHA, Statutory Auditor
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The purchase of the company by DNS in January 2026 and the ongoing group support allied to the existing UK banking facilities and financial resources have helped bring the directors to the conclusion that the company is a going concern.”
Significant events
- “In January 2026, Heller Group, including Heller Machine Tools Limited, Redditch was purchased by DN Solutions who are a leader within the machine tool industry.”
- “Also, in 2025 a decision was taken to close the production facility of the UK operation in March 2026.”
- “In October 2025, the company entered into an agreement to guarantee certain specific borrowings of fellow group undertakings within the Heller Group.”
- “In October 2025, the Group announced a restructuring plan to consolidate assembly operations at its main plant in Germany, resulting in the planned closure of the UK assembly operations by 31 March 2026.”
- “In February 2026, the company entered into an unsecured £1.1 million loan agreement with Heller Group, repayable after one year with automatic renewal if not fully repaid and bearing interest at 5.5% per annum.”
- “On 28 January 2026, Heller Group was acquired by DN Solutions.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DYER, Juliette Angela | Secretary | 2015-12-17 | — | — |
| DYER, Juliette Angela | Director | 2024-02-01 | Feb 1967 | British |
| MUESSIGMANN, Andreas | Director | 2024-10-02 | Jun 1976 | German |
| ROUSE, Edward James | Director | 2025-01-01 | Apr 1979 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLOYD, Geoffrey Edward | Secretary | — | 2015-11-06 |
| HELLER, Berndt | Director | 1992-12-07 | 2007-09-19 |
| HELLER, Hubert | Director | — | 1999-12-31 |
| LLOYD, Geoffrey Edward | Director | — | 2015-11-06 |
| MEYER, Matthias Carsten | Director | 2015-01-06 | 2024-08-30 |
| ROSENBERGER, Manfred Peter | Director | 2022-01-01 | 2024-02-01 |
| WINKLER, Klaus | Director | 2007-09-19 | 2022-01-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Manfred Peter Rosenberger | Individual | Significant influence | 2022-01-01 | Ceased 2024-02-01 |
| Mr Matthias Carsten Meyer | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-08-30 |
| Mr Klaus Winkler | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-01 |
| Heller Machine Tools Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 149 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-08 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-08 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-04-08 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-04-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-23 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-12-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-24 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-24 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- 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.