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CROSSBOWS OPTICAL LIMITED

#NI020335 · Active · Incorporated 1987-04-01 (39y 1m) · Last filing 2025-10-07 (7mo ago)
Consumer Discretionary · SIC 32990 · C Manufacturing · Full accounts

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2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-10-12 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-09-28

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£984K

-4.7% vs 2022

Net assets

£28M

+32.6% vs 2022

Employees

30

-3.2% vs 2022

Profit before tax

£9M

+10.7% vs 2022

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31

Latest accounts filed cover 2024-12-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2023-12-31.

Metric Trend 2022-12-312023-12-31
Turnover £9,626,618£10,298,780
Operating profit £7,943,758£7,991,006
Profit before tax £8,096,569£8,961,314
Net profit ——
Cash £1,032,487£983,635
Total assets less current liabilities £21,033,859£27,884,438
Net assets £21,033,859£27,884,438
Equity £21,033,859£27,884,438
Average employees 3130
Wages ——
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

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

Heads up: a more recent set of accounts has been filed but isn't yet reflected here — the figures above are older than the company's latest filing.

Ratios

Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest

Ratio Trend 2022-12-312023-12-31
Operating margin 82.5%77.6%
Return on capital employed 37.8%28.7%

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

  1. CROSSBOWS OPTICAL LIMITED 2000-01-01 → present
  2. PANCHEON LIMITED 1987-04-01 → 2000-01-01

People

3 active · 19 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
FEGAN, David Secretary 2023-10-01 — —
MCCOLLUM, Patrick Director 2017-05-01 Jan 1975 Irish
MCROBERTS, Richard Director 2019-09-02 Jan 1986 British
Show 19 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
ALLELY, David Lawrence Secretary 1987-04-01 2023-09-30
BERNARD, Mary Kathryn Director 1999-08-16 2010-04-01
COLOMBO, Carlo Maria Director 2003-08-15 2010-04-01
COLOMBO, Carlo Maria Director 1987-04-01 1999-11-30
CORBASSON, Frederic Alain Lucien Director 2011-04-20 2014-07-02
DINGLEY, Mark Gerald Director 2001-12-20 2012-04-04
GLON, Francois Jean-Marie Director 2010-04-01 2011-04-12
MASTELLONI, Ugo Director 1987-04-01 1999-06-24
MCCREA, Mervyn Knox Director 1987-04-01 2017-04-30
MCCULLOUGH, Gary Lloyd Director 1987-04-01 2007-06-23
MCLOUGHLIN, Hugh Martin Director 1987-04-01 2014-05-31
PASCHETTA, Gianni Director 1987-04-01 1999-05-12
PEDERZINI, Alessandro, Dr Director 2001-12-20 2010-04-01
SALVADORI, Bruno Director 1999-07-30 2012-04-04
STALEY, Bradley Jason Director 2012-04-04 2014-10-10
STEELE, Trevor Director 2014-06-01 2019-08-30
STEWART, Christopher Joseph Director 2010-04-01 2014-07-02
VIANELLO, Gabriele Director 1987-04-01 1999-05-17
ZANCANARO, Paolo Director 1987-04-01 2003-06-26

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Essilorluxottica S.A. Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 206 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-10-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-05-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-10-31 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-09-23 AAMD accounts Accounts amended with accounts type full
2024-08-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type total exemption full PDF
2023-10-20 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-10-12 CH03 officers Change person secretary company with change date PDF
2023-10-12 TM02 officers Termination secretary company with name termination date PDF
2023-10-12 AP03 officers Appoint person secretary company with name date PDF
2023-10-10 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-09-22 PSC05 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2023-01-09 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type small
2022-09-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2022-01-24 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type small
2021-10-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-02-02 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type small
2020-12-08 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-10-26 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-10-18 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2019-09-30 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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