COM DEV EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-15
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£318K
-68.3% vs 2023
Net assets
-£22M
-30.7% vs 2023
Employees
75
-2.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£5M
-60% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-15.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Telecommunications median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,684,000 | £12,600,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,058,000 | -£2,535,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,244,000 | -£5,192,000 | |
| Net profit | -£3,244,000 | -£5,192,000 | |
| Cash | £1,002,000 | £318,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£14,279,000 | -£19,684,000 | |
| Net assets | -£16,894,000 | -£22,086,000 | |
| Equity | -£16,894,000 | -£22,086,000 | |
| Average employees | 77 | 75 | |
| Wages | £3,986,000 | £3,987,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £312,000 | £293,000 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-0.7%
£12,684,000 £12,600,000
-
Cash
-68.3%
£1,002,000 £318,000
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Net assets
-30.7%
-£16,894,000 -£22,086,000
-
Employees
-2.6%
77 75
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Operating profit
-139.6%
-£1,058,000 -£2,535,000
-
Profit before tax
-60%
-£3,244,000 -£5,192,000
-
Wages
0%
£3,986,000 £3,987,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -8.3% | -20.1% | |
| Net margin | -25.6% | -41.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.4% | 12.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.36x | 0.25x | |
| Interest cover | -0.48x | -0.95x |
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
- COM DEV EUROPE LIMITED 1985-01-08 → present
- CHESSNOBLE LIMITED 1984-11-15 → 1985-01-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources, including support from Honeywell International Inc. to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future being a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Com Dev Europe Limited is part of the Aero Strategic Business Group that is intended to be spun into a separate listed group in H2 2026 as part of a strategic separation of Honeywell businesses. Currently the new group structure of this spin off is not finalized and therefore the immediate and ultimate parents are unconfirmed.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, John Cain | Director | 2017-05-15 | Dec 1960 | British |
| YATES, Derek Iain | Director | 2024-10-24 | Feb 1974 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AINSWORTH, Keith Richard | Secretary | — | 2001-11-01 |
| CALHOUN, Gary | Secretary | 2002-10-31 | 2016-02-04 |
| ZAHAVICH, Tim | Secretary | 2001-11-01 | 2002-06-24 |
| AINSWORTH, Keith Richard | Director | — | 2002-10-31 |
| CALHOUN, Gary Thomas | Director | 2010-09-30 | 2016-02-04 |
| CAMERON, Richard John | Director | — | 1993-04-15 |
| D'CRUZE, Christopher | Director | 2015-07-28 | 2016-02-08 |
| EDDLESTON, Bernard Noel Francis | Director | — | 1998-06-26 |
| FRASER, Grant William | Director | 2016-02-08 | 2016-10-07 |
| GIBSON, Roy | Director | 1993-04-16 | 1996-01-25 |
| HUTCHINGS, Anthony Richard Vaughan | Director | 2016-02-08 | 2019-11-01 |
| KEATING, John Stephen | Director | 2000-02-28 | 2010-09-01 |
| MCCORMACK, Stuart Robert | Director | 2016-02-08 | 2017-04-28 |
| MILLER, Victor Jay | Director | 2016-02-08 | 2019-05-09 |
| MOLFORD, Craig | Director | 2019-12-31 | 2024-10-24 |
| ODONOVAN, Michael Valentine | Director | — | 2001-11-01 |
| SOOD, Pravin Kumar | Director | 1995-08-23 | 1997-07-31 |
| SPURRETT, Robert Paul | Director | 2010-09-30 | 2016-02-05 |
| STUART, John Ronaldson | Director | 1998-10-01 | 2016-02-04 |
| WALLIS, Sarah Ransome | Director | 2017-04-28 | 2019-12-20 |
| WINTER, Alan Ernest, Dr | Director | 1998-10-01 | 1999-06-30 |
| ZAHAVICH, Tim | Director | 2001-11-01 | 2002-06-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeywell International Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2018-05-29 | Active |
| Com Dev Investments Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-05-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 216 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-08 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-05-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-08-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-11-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.