FGX EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-12 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-29
Watchouts
Cash
£2K
-95.2% vs 2022
Net assets
-£22M
-15.7% vs 2022
Employees
36
-5.3% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£4M
+13.3% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,458,000 | £10,683,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£4,245,000 | -£2,427,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,486,000 | -£3,890,000 | |
| Net profit | -£3,786,000 | -£3,024,000 | |
| Cash | £42,000 | £2,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£17,313,000 | -£21,644,000 | |
| Net assets | -£18,702,000 | -£21,644,000 | |
| Equity | -£18,702,000 | -£21,644,000 | |
| Average employees | 38 | 36 | |
| Wages | £1,248,000 | £1,243,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
+2.2%
£10,458,000 £10,683,000
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Cash
-95.2%
£42,000 £2,000
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Net assets
-15.7%
-£18,702,000 -£21,644,000
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Employees
-5.3%
38 36
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Operating profit
+42.8%
-£4,245,000 -£2,427,000
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Profit before tax
+13.3%
-£4,486,000 -£3,890,000
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Wages
-0.4%
£1,248,000 £1,243,000
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -40.6% | -22.7% | |
| Net margin | -36.2% | -28.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 24.5% | 11.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.41x | 0.34x | |
| Interest cover | -17.61x | -1.64x |
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 3 times since incorporation
- FGX EUROPE LIMITED 2006-08-10 → present
- AAI. FOSTER GRANT LIMITED 1998-01-13 → 2006-08-10
- FOSTER GRANT LIMITED 1998-01-05 → 1998-01-13
- PCO 190 LIMITED 1997-12-29 → 1998-01-05
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that the company has adequate resources for its foreseeable future needs and for this reason continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. The Company has received a letter of support from its ultimate parent company covering the period of 12 months from the date of the signing of the financial statements, aligning to the period to which the Directors have paid particular attention in assessing the appropriateness of the going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “The company exercised a break clause in its lease of the warehouse in Stoke on Trent closing down all operations and office activities at the end of January 2024. All UK warehousing operations were re-established in a modern purpose-built distribution centre owned by another Essilor Luxottica subsidiary on 1st January 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISTRA COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2001-04-30 | — | — |
| DE BONDT, Davy | Director | 2022-11-30 | Apr 1982 | Belgian |
| DUCA, Matteo Lo | Director | 2023-09-25 | Jun 1979 | Italian |
| MADDOCK, Rob | Director | 2023-09-25 | Jan 1972 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAILEX CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 1997-12-29 | 2001-04-30 |
| BARBERIO, Roberto | Director | 2022-07-13 | 2023-09-25 |
| BURMESTER, Thomas Simon William | Director | 2018-04-02 | 2023-09-25 |
| CARLOTTI, Stephen John | Director | 1998-02-25 | 2003-09-11 |
| CERCE, Gerald | Director | 1998-02-25 | 2003-09-11 |
| COY, Alan | Director | 1998-02-25 | 2005-12-31 |
| DIPAOLA, Anthony | Director | 2013-03-04 | 2020-07-01 |
| GIGUERE, Jeffrey Joseph | Director | 2007-06-28 | 2022-11-30 |
| JONES, Christopher Richard | Director | 2005-12-19 | 2006-11-16 |
| KROPMAN, Jonathan Ronald | Director | 1997-12-29 | 1998-02-25 |
| LAGARTO, Brian Joseph | Director | 2006-11-16 | 2007-04-27 |
| MELO GUERRERO, Cesar Octavio | Director | 2013-03-04 | 2014-09-03 |
| MILES, Jonathan Richard, Mr. | Director | 2019-01-01 | 2022-04-15 |
| MILES, Jonathan Richard | Director | 2006-10-16 | 2006-11-16 |
| PANUCCI, Matthew | Director | 2013-03-04 | 2018-04-02 |
| PYRAH, Stewart | Director | 2006-03-06 | 2008-10-17 |
| RAVETS, Dominque | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2019-01-01 |
| TAYLOR, Alfred Alexander | Director | 2006-11-16 | 2013-03-15 |
| TRIANGOLO, Daniel | Director | 1998-02-25 | 2003-09-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essilorluxottica Sa | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-10-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 131 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-19 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-19 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-11 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-07-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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.