OPTIMA CONTRACTING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-03 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£16M
+10.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£27M
+14.5% vs 2024
Employees
472
+3.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£6M
+34.6% vs 2024
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2021-01-31 | 2022-01-31 | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | £90,528,733 | £91,748,445 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £4,195,562 | £6,498,599 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | £4,577,509 | £6,163,388 | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | £3,351,389 | £4,487,444 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | £14,754,815 | £16,361,086 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | £25,976,882 | £27,980,323 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | £24,010,286 | £27,481,106 | |
| Equity | £4,689,657 | £5,372,546 | £5,976,267 | £24,010,286 | £27,481,106 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | 455 | 472 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | £21,362,312 | £23,395,735 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | £37,902 | £4,800 |
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 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+1.3%
£90,528,733 £91,748,445
-
Cash
+10.9%
£14,754,815 £16,361,086
-
Net assets
+14.5%
£24,010,286 £27,481,106
-
Employees
+3.7%
455 472
-
Operating profit
+54.9%
£4,195,562 £6,498,599
-
Profit before tax
+34.6%
£4,577,509 £6,163,388
-
Wages
+9.5%
£21,362,312 £23,395,735
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 | 2021-01-31 | 2022-01-31 | 2023-01-31 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | — | 4.6% | 7.1% | |
| Net margin | — | — | — | 3.7% | 4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | — | 16.2% | 23.2% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 2.03x | 2.14x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | 395.99x | 404.80x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- OPTIMA CONTRACTING LIMITED 2007-04-27 → present
- H.L. SMITH CONSTRUCTION LIMITED 1986-10-23 → 2007-04-27
- HISTOSALE LIMITED 1985-02-15 → 1986-10-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Seymour Taylor Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. 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 and the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- OPTIMA CONTRACTING LIMITED · parent
- Optima Installations Limited 1%
- Optima Products Limited 1%
- OAG Limited 1%
- Optima Systems International DMCC 1%
- Optima Partitions LLC 1%
- Optima Partitions Contracting LLC 1%
- Optima Partitions LLC Egypt 1%
- Jalapeno Trading LLC 0.76%
- Optima Products Asia SDN BHD 1%
- Optima Systems Asia Pacific PTE Ltd 1%
- PurOptima Inc 1%
- Curtsons (Radstock) Limited 1%
- HLS Installations Limited 1%
- Unilock Limited 1%
- Curtis Steel Limited 1%
- Optima Glass Installations Limited 1%
- Optima Partitioning Systems Limited 1%
- Optima Systems Australia Pty Limited 1%
- Puroptima Limited 1%
Significant events
- “The UK construction industry saw considerable disruption during 2025 following the financial failure of the ISG Group. For our business this resulted in a bad debt write-off, which is reported as an Exceptional Item, but it also resulted in shifting a significant amount of revenue into 2026 as work on all affected projects was suspended for a period of time.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALEY, Nicholas William | Secretary | — | — | British |
| CALEY, Nicholas William | Director | — | Dec 1962 | British |
| DANN, Sean | Director | 2009-01-30 | Jan 1970 | British |
| EVANS, Gary | Director | 2002-09-23 | May 1970 | British |
| GREY, Andrew | Director | 2000-10-19 | Apr 1969 | British |
| THOMASON, Christopher Lee | Director | 2026-02-01 | Nov 1964 | British |
| WOOD, Allan Graham | Director | 2020-07-01 | Jul 1966 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAREY, Simon William | Director | 2000-10-19 | 2004-05-14 |
| COLLIE, Stephen John Alexander | Director | 1994-07-01 | 1997-12-12 |
| DANN, Sean | Director | 2007-08-01 | 2009-01-12 |
| JUDD, Beverley | Director | — | 2005-02-28 |
| JUDD, Robert Keith | Director | 2019-05-07 | 2023-04-30 |
| JUDD, Robert Keith | Director | 1986-11-17 | 2019-04-30 |
| MORSE, Bronwen | Director | — | 2006-05-15 |
| MORSE, Robert John | Director | — | 2006-07-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optima Investments Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 199 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-14 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-05-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.