SULZER SERVICES (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£47M
-8% vs 2023
Employees
445
-3.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£5M
-548.2% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- SULZER SERVICES (UK) LIMITED 2023-05-10 → present
- SULZER ELECTRO MECHANICAL SERVICES (UK) LIMITED 2017-03-01 → 2023-05-10
- DOWDING & MILLS (U.K.) LIMITED 1983-06-29 → 2017-03-01
- DOWDING & MILLS (NORTH EASTERN) LIMITED 1976-12-31 → 1983-06-29
- C.HORNE AND COMPANY,LIMITED 1932-11-22 → 1976-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £60,512,000 | £62,661,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£149,000 | -£4,099,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£836,000 | -£5,419,000 | |
| Net profit | -£694,000 | -£4,076,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £64,105,000 | £58,878,000 | |
| Net assets | £51,100,000 | £47,024,000 | |
| Equity | £51,100,000 | £47,024,000 | |
| Average employees | 463 | 445 | |
| Wages | £24,896,000 | £35,936,000 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.2% | -6.5% | |
| Net margin | -1.1% | -6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.2% | -7.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 41.1% | 40.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.30x | 2.24x | |
| Interest cover | -0.19x | -2.70x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Rödl & Partner Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- SULZER SERVICES (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Dowding & Mills Overseas Limited 100%
- Dowding & Mills Luxembourg Limited 90%
- Dowding & Mills Golf Holdings JAOC 100%
- Dowding & Mills Europe BV 100%
Significant events
- “During 2024 the business experienced an increase in sales of 3.6% or £2.2m from £60.5m to £62.7m.”
- “the business incurred exceptional costs of £2.7m to consolidate the Service Centre Footprint.”
- “The Company acquired the trade and asset of the Bristol Service Centre from Sulzer Pumps (UK) Limited on 1 January 2024 to better reflect its position within the Services division of the business.”
- “The company has entered into a liability limitation agreement with the company's auditor, which was approved on 25 October 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIXON, Lee Michael | Secretary | 2023-11-16 | — | — |
| ELLIS, David Jonathon | Director | 2025-12-10 | Feb 1982 | British |
| HANLON, Helen Louise | Director | 2024-04-29 | Feb 1987 | British |
| JACKSON, Vanessa Lorraine | Director | 2024-03-19 | Mar 1973 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALEM, Simon Grant | Secretary | 2004-09-06 | 2017-12-22 |
| BARRETT, Timothy Ian | Secretary | 2003-04-08 | 2004-09-06 |
| COULSON, Kathleen Louise | Secretary | 2000-01-01 | 2003-04-07 |
| GREVES, John Charles | Secretary | — | 1999-12-31 |
| HUSSAIN, Naveed | Secretary | 2017-12-22 | 2019-08-01 |
| ARDEN, Derrick James | Director | 1998-07-08 | 2003-03-26 |
| BALEM, Simon Grant | Director | 2007-02-15 | 2017-12-22 |
| BANKS, David Eric | Director | 2007-02-01 | 2010-06-14 |
| BARRETT, Timothy Ian | Director | 2004-09-06 | 2010-07-28 |
| BOAST, Clive Richard | Director | — | 2000-12-01 |
| BRADWELL, Garth Jeffrey | Director | 2010-07-28 | 2018-05-10 |
| BREWSTER, Colin, Operations Director | Director | 2004-10-25 | 2013-06-30 |
| CAPEY, Michael Hugh | Director | 2000-12-01 | 2004-09-06 |
| COLE, James Henry Robert | Director | — | 1997-12-26 |
| COULSON, Kathleen Louise | Director | 2002-10-22 | 2003-04-07 |
| DAVENPORT, John Rowland | Director | 2022-01-17 | 2025-12-10 |
| DAVIES, Tudor Griffith | Director | 2007-02-01 | 2010-07-28 |
| GIBBON, Brian Alfred | Director | 1998-07-08 | 2002-11-14 |
| GREVES, John Charles | Director | — | 1999-12-31 |
| GUEST, Peter David | Director | 2003-05-19 | 2004-10-25 |
| HABGOOD, Martyn Alan | Director | 1997-11-25 | 2002-11-29 |
| HODGSON, Andrew | Director | 2010-07-28 | 2013-05-30 |
| HOLDEN, Kenneth Harold | Director | 1998-07-08 | 2000-06-30 |
| HOLLINGS, Peter Lewis | Director | — | 1992-01-31 |
| HUSER, Reto | Director | 2013-06-03 | 2016-10-18 |
| HUSSAIN, Naveed | Director | 2016-10-19 | 2019-08-01 |
| POWLES, Christian, Mr. | Director | 2017-11-09 | 2022-01-17 |
| ROBERTSON, Graeme | Director | 2015-04-10 | 2016-09-30 |
| ROGERS, Robert | Director | 2007-02-01 | 2011-09-06 |
| RUCKSTUHL, Holger Hans-Jochen | Director | 2018-11-28 | 2024-03-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sulzer Uk Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2017-01-01 | Active |
| Sulzer (Uk) Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 193 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-05-10 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-10 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+3.6%
£60,512,000 £62,661,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-8%
£51,100,000 £47,024,000
-
Employees
-3.9%
463 445
-
Operating profit
-2,651%
-£149,000 -£4,099,000
-
Profit before tax
-548.2%
-£836,000 -£5,419,000
-
Wages
+44.3%
£24,896,000 £35,936,000
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