SBD AUTOMOTIVE LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-29 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£856K
-11.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
-12.5% vs 2024
Employees
47
-7.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£693K
+71.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £7,505,901 | £8,996,449 | |
| Operating profit | £384,936 | £674,509 | |
| Profit before tax | £404,100 | £693,234 | |
| Net profit | £499,405 | £502,765 | |
| Cash | £965,918 | £856,428 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,469,069 | £4,825,278 | |
| Net assets | £5,416,686 | £4,738,035 | |
| Equity | £5,416,686 | £4,738,035 | |
| Average employees | 51 | 47 | |
| Wages | £3,065,423 | £3,375,255 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £389,620 | £307,547 |
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 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
+19.9%
£7,505,901 £8,996,449
-
Cash
-11.3%
£965,918 £856,428
-
Net assets
-12.5%
£5,416,686 £4,738,035
-
Employees
-7.8%
51 47
-
Operating profit
+75.2%
£384,936 £674,509
-
Profit before tax
+71.6%
£404,100 £693,234
-
Wages
+10.1%
£3,065,423 £3,375,255
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.1% | 7.5% | |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 5.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.0% | 14.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.24x | 2.61x | |
| Interest cover | — | 149.36x |
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
- SBD AUTOMOTIVE LTD 2020-01-02 → present
- SECURED BY DESIGN LIMITED 1997-07-14 → 2020-01-02
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Mercer & Hole 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 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
- SBD AUTOMOTIVE LTD · parent
- SBD Japan Ltd 100%
- SBD North America LLP 100%
- SBD India Private Ltd 100%
- SBD Automotive Germany GmbH 100%
- SBD Automotive (Shanghai) Consulting Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “A dividend of £1.2m was declared to pay Vender Loan Notes owed by the Group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HANNAH, Jeffrey Steven | Director | 2024-06-27 | Nov 1971 | American |
| HART, Andrew | Director | 2016-11-25 | Jul 1983 | British |
| JONES, Josephine | Director | 2024-06-27 | Feb 1960 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, Gareth Bryn | Secretary | 1997-07-14 | 2021-02-25 |
| KEY LEGAL SERVICES (SECRETARIAL) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1997-07-14 | 1997-07-14 |
| BELL, David Antony | Director | 1997-07-14 | 2024-07-23 |
| COLMAN, Lee Christopher | Director | 2019-04-05 | 2021-02-25 |
| GARRETT, Mark William | Director | 2016-11-25 | 2021-02-25 |
| JONES, Gareth Bryn | Director | 1997-07-14 | 2021-02-25 |
| MCCLURE, David Edward | Director | 2000-11-01 | 2024-07-23 |
| PALMER, Andrew Charles, Dr | Director | 2017-05-01 | 2021-02-25 |
| ROSE, Grahame | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2014-06-12 |
| VISVESWARAN, Abhishek | Director | 2017-06-02 | 2019-03-31 |
| WHITBY-SMITH, Robert James | Director | 2016-08-12 | 2021-02-25 |
| WORTHINGTON, Jeremy | Director | 2010-04-01 | 2011-10-31 |
| KEY LEGAL SERVICES (NOMINEES) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1997-07-14 | 1997-07-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sbd Automotive Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2021-02-25 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 187 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type medium | |
| 2024-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-19 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-07-19 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-25 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-08-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-08-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-08-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
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.