ADVANEX EUROPE LIMITED
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Cash
£2.6m
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£13m
Equity attributable
Employees
190
Average over period
Profit before tax
£958k
Period ending 2024-03-31
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
1-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,790,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | £926,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | £958,000 | — | |
| Net profit | £671,000 | — | |
| Cash | £2,554,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,972,000 | — | |
| Net assets | £13,085,000 | — | |
| Equity | £13,085,000 | — | |
| Average employees | 190 | — | |
| Wages | £6,713,000 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £521,000 | — | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £91,000 | — | |
| Highest paid director | £168,000 | — |
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 —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing's period length differs materially from the prior year. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.2% | |
| Net margin | 3.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 26.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.81x |
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
- ADVANEX EUROPE LIMITED 2010-09-23 → present
- KATO PRECISION (U.K.) LIMITED 1988-09-30 → 2010-09-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the balance sheet date, the business remains in a net assets position, with cash reserves. This, combined with the financial forecasts prepared by the directors show that the company will be able to operate within the facilities available to it for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these accounts. On that basis, the directors have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ADVANEX EUROPE LIMITED · parent
- Kato-Entex Limited 100%
- Advanex Deutschland 100%
- Advanex Czech Republic 100%
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the group since the balance sheet date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MULLINGS, Marian | Secretary | 2014-05-31 | — | — |
| ASADA, Eitaro | Director | 2023-08-01 | Oct 1946 | Japanese |
| BEARDSMORE, Ian | Director | 2016-04-01 | Aug 1969 | British |
| FRANCE, Adrian | Director | 2018-05-01 | Dec 1962 | British |
| KATO, Seiya | Director | 2020-06-22 | Apr 1958 | Japanese |
| MULLINGS, Marian | Director | 2017-04-03 | May 1972 | British |
| SUZUKI, Takashi | Director | 2021-08-01 | Aug 1970 | Japanese |
| YOSHIHARA, Tetsuya | Director | 2021-08-01 | Nov 1967 | Japanese |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALLAM, Richard John | Secretary | 1998-04-24 | 2001-04-01 |
| HARDY, Nicola Ruth | Secretary | 2001-04-01 | 2014-05-31 |
| MORITA, Ken | Secretary | — | 1994-08-01 |
| STONEBRIDGE, Elizabeth | Secretary | 1994-08-01 | 1998-04-24 |
| BLATHERWICK, David Albert | Director | 2010-10-08 | 2014-05-31 |
| CLIFFORD, Paul Richard Maffert | Director | — | 2017-04-06 |
| GREEN, Christopher John | Director | 2010-10-08 | 2017-04-06 |
| HALLAM, Richard John | Director | 2010-10-08 | 2014-05-31 |
| HIROTA, Masaho | Director | 2010-10-08 | 2014-03-31 |
| JENKINSON, John Charles | Director | 2017-04-03 | 2019-01-11 |
| KATO, Kiyoshi | Director | — | 2010-10-08 |
| KATO, Yuichi | Director | — | 2018-07-23 |
| KELLY, Donald Joseph | Director | 1994-08-01 | 1996-10-31 |
| MORITA, Ken | Director | — | 2001-05-31 |
| NAKAGAKI, Osamu | Director | 2024-08-01 | 2025-08-25 |
| OGUSHI, Takafumi | Director | 2022-12-19 | 2023-12-15 |
| OGUSHI, Takafumi | Director | 2022-08-01 | 2022-11-14 |
| OHNO, Toshiya | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2020-06-22 |
| SHIBANO, Tsuneo | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2020-10-01 |
| SHIMAMURA, Noboru | Director | 2020-06-22 | 2023-08-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanex Group Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors (as firm), Significant influence (as firm) | 2017-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-29 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-17 | 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.