EAO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-22 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+71.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
-14.2% vs 2023
Employees
25
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£483K
-58.5% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- EAO LIMITED 1998-05-01 → present
- EAO HIGHLAND ELECTRONICS LIMITED 1994-02-07 → 1998-05-01
- HIGHLAND ELECTRONICS LIMITED 1962-12-21 → 1994-01-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,191,014 | £15,081,613 | |
| Operating profit | £1,155,374 | £467,616 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,162,110 | £482,513 | |
| Net profit | £881,192 | £352,191 | |
| Cash | £1,331,260 | £2,286,342 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,887,212 | £3,361,708 | |
| Net assets | £3,865,259 | £3,317,450 | |
| Equity | £3,865,259 | £3,317,450 | |
| Average employees | 25 | 25 | |
| Wages | £1,168,376 | £1,181,974 |
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 | 7.6% | 3.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.8% | 2.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 29.7% | 13.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.57x | 2.12x | |
| Interest cover | 305.74x | — |
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 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Richard Place Dobson Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements which indicate that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, following the war in Ukraine and potential recession, on the operations and its financial resources, the company will have sufficient funds, to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period.”
Significant events
- “ongoing impact of the war in Ukraine and potential recession”
- “Turnover for 2024, were 0.7% lower than the 2023 figure. This was due to a lower backlog of orders with long lead times.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAITLAND, John Athole Charles | Secretary | 2022-01-24 | — | — |
| GROUT, Alexander James | Director | 2016-06-13 | Aug 1970 | British |
| HUMPHREYS, Richard Anthony | Director | 2019-04-30 | Jul 1975 | British |
| LOOSLI, Kurt | Director | 2001-01-01 | Dec 1961 | Swiss |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLS, Barry John | Secretary | 1994-01-04 | 2016-06-10 |
| OXLADE, Richard Graham | Secretary | — | 1994-01-04 |
| STARR, Christopher John | Secretary | 2019-03-20 | 2021-01-24 |
| BLAYNEY, Derek Harold | Director | 1992-01-21 | 1995-08-24 |
| BLUM, Edmund | Director | 1994-01-04 | 1994-03-14 |
| CHELVARAJ, Arun Pillai | Director | — | 1994-01-04 |
| COHEN, Paul Ian | Director | — | 1993-09-10 |
| GILOMEN, Hanspeter | Director | 1994-03-14 | 1997-02-28 |
| HILLS, Barry John | Director | — | 2016-06-10 |
| HOWARD OF RISING, The Lord | Director | 1993-09-20 | 1994-01-04 |
| JACQUES, Susan Christine | Director | 1999-07-01 | 2016-02-29 |
| NARDIN, Jean-Pierre, Dr | Director | 1994-01-04 | 2000-12-31 |
| PIERCE, Adam Joseph | Director | 2016-04-25 | 2018-12-01 |
| ROBERTS, David John | Director | — | 1992-04-30 |
| STARR, Christopher John | Director | 2019-04-30 | 2022-01-24 |
| TEBBUTT, David Paul | Director | — | 1992-04-30 |
| WILLIAMS, Nicholas Charles | Director | 1992-01-21 | 2000-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eao Holding Ag | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2019-01-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-24 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-01-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-24 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-04-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2019-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-0.7%
£15,191,014 £15,081,613
-
Cash
+71.7%
£1,331,260 £2,286,342
-
Net assets
-14.2%
£3,865,259 £3,317,450
-
Employees
0%
25 25
-
Operating profit
-59.5%
£1,155,374 £467,616
-
Profit before tax
-58.5%
£1,162,110 £482,513
-
Wages
+1.2%
£1,168,376 £1,181,974
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