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WS AUDIOLOGY LIMITED
Cash
£311K
+561.7% vs 2023
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
73
+43.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£19M
+2,572.3% vs 2023
Profile
- Company number
- 00203774
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1925-01-12
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-09-30
- Account category
- FULL
- Primary SIC
- 86900
- Hubs
- UK Healthcare
Profit before tax
6-year trend · vs UK Healthcare median
WS AUDIOLOGY LIMITED
WS AUDIOLOGY LIMITED
WS AUDIOLOGY LIMITED
WS AUDIOLOGY LIMITED
Accounts
6-year trend · latest 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2019-09-30 | 2020-09-30 | 2021-09-30 | 2022-09-30 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | £708,000 | £18,920,000 | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Cash | — | — | — | — | £47,000 | £311,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Equity | £9,793,000 | £11,290,000 | £4,872,000 | £5,841,000 | £8,228,000 | £26,652,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | — | 51 | 73 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | — | £2,281,000 | £3,462,000 |
Values shown as filed in iXBRL accounts. — indicates the figure was not present in the extracted filing (either not filed under that concept or absent from the period). About these numbers
Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Saffery LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the company's forecasts, the directors consider that the company will trade profitably and generate a positive cash flow from operations over the next 12 months. Additionally, the company's immediate parent company operates a cash pooling facility whereby cash balances generated by entities are consolidated and group companies can draw down on these facilities if required.”
Subsidiaries
- Sivantos (Suzhou) Co. Limited · 100% held · China
- Sound Advice Hearing Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Horncastle Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Kings Lynn Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Norwich Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Peterborough Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Lincoln Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Nottingham Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Southport Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Winchester Limited · 49% held · England
- Sound Advice Hearing Hull Limited · 49% held · England
Significant events
- “On 30 September 2024, the trade and assets of Widex UK Limited, a subsidiary of Sivantos GmbH, were hived across to the company. This was carried out in order to streamline the UK business of the ultimate controlling party. A merger reserve has been created as a result of the business combination, being the difference between consideration, £8,283,288 and net assets transferred from Widex UK Limited, £8,337,737.”
- “After the year end the company was made aware that a customer entered intro a restructuring plan, resulting in all year end receivables with this customer being deemed irrecoverable. The balance of trade receivables written off at year end amounted to £1,833,072 in relation to this customer.”
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
1 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STORES, Philip | Director | 2019-04-04 | Jul 1978 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROOKS, Michael John | Secretary | 1996-05-31 | 1999-07-26 |
| DENMAN, Jonathan Paul | Secretary | 2001-07-13 | 2003-12-19 |
| GANDY, Graham | Secretary | 2017-06-26 | 2018-04-05 |
| HAYNES, Brian John | Secretary | — | 1996-05-31 |
| NECCHI, Peter | Secretary | 1999-07-26 | 2001-03-01 |
| SMITH, David James | Secretary | 2004-02-01 | 2017-06-26 |
| ANDREWS, Trevor | Director | 2007-07-01 | 2017-06-26 |
| BOOTH, Julie Tina | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2005-03-14 |
| CHAPERO RUEDA, Valentin | Director | 1996-07-11 | 2000-01-01 |
| DOMBROWE, Heinz Otto Guenter | Director | 2004-06-02 | 2012-03-31 |
| ENZ, Martin | Director | 1997-11-28 | 1999-11-26 |
| FRIEDRICH, Reimar | Director | 2000-08-01 | 2006-05-01 |
| FRIEDRICH, Reimar Roland Tassilo | Director | 1993-10-21 | 1998-07-10 |
| GREENER, Desmond Walter Kingsley | Director | — | 1998-07-15 |
| KAUL, Karlheinz | Director | 2004-09-13 | 2007-12-01 |
| KELLER, Hans | Director | — | 1995-06-30 |
| KNAPP, Franz | Director | — | 1993-11-04 |
| LOESLEIN, Klaus Harry | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2011-04-01 |
| MARTIN, Raimund Georg | Director | 2005-03-14 | 2007-07-01 |
| MEHL, Hans | Director | 1997-11-28 | 2000-08-01 |
| PRIGGE, Ditmar, Dr | Director | 1993-10-21 | 1996-07-11 |
| RADKE, Roger, Dr | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2013-09-01 |
| RADKE, Roger, Dr | Director | 2000-01-01 | 2004-09-13 |
| RUMMEL, Christian Bodo | Director | 2006-11-01 | 2009-04-27 |
| SCHALLER, Stefan, Dr | Director | 2007-12-01 | 2010-04-22 |
| SMITH, David James | Director | 2004-02-01 | 2019-04-04 |
| STADELMANN, Hans Peter | Director | 1995-06-30 | 1998-07-10 |
| WEISS, Heinz Ludwig | Director | 1993-09-01 | 1997-03-31 |
| WRIGHT, Delain | Director | 1997-03-31 | 2003-07-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
No PSC data extracted yet.
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 195 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2025-07-01 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-06-27 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-11-18 | SH01 | capital | capital allotment shares |
| 2024-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-07-10 | AD03 | address | move registers to sail company with new address |
| 2024-07-10 | AD02 | address | change sail address company with new address |
| 2024-06-25 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-02-12 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2023-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-03-13 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-11-16 | MR04 | mortgage | mortgage satisfy charge full |
| 2022-09-29 | CERTNM | change-of-name | certificate change of name company |
| 2022-07-07 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2022-07-07 | AD01 | address | change registered office address company with date old address new address |
| 2022-07-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-07-01 | AD01 | address | change registered office address company with date old address new address |
| 2022-06-24 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-03-15 | AD01 | address | change registered office address company with date old address new address |
| 2021-11-25 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
Credit score
Altman Z″ — composite of working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, and leverage
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Activity Score
Filings velocity, capital events, officer churn, accounts trajectory
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