ELMDENE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
-12.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£9M
+26.4% vs 2023
Employees
49
-2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+58.3% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ELMDENE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1988-11-08 → present
- ELMDENE INVESTMENTS LIMITED 1963-03-04 → 1988-11-08
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 | £12,676,769 | £13,947,079 | |
| Operating profit | £1,499,111 | £2,324,322 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,494,638 | £2,365,819 | |
| Net profit | £1,141,996 | £1,838,857 | |
| Cash | £3,660,089 | £3,192,516 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,037,802 | £8,871,675 | |
| Net assets | £6,971,628 | £8,810,485 | |
| Equity | £6,971,628 | £8,810,485 | |
| Average employees | 50 | 49 | |
| Wages | £2,631,891 | £2,743,705 |
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 | 11.8% | 16.7% | |
| Net margin | 9.0% | 13.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.3% | 26.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 23.1% | 25.7% | |
| Current ratio | 4.30x | 3.77x | |
| Interest cover | 39.83x | 60.21x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving these financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The directors have received written support from group undertakings that they will receive continued support from them, such that the company can meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The directors have assessed the availability of group support from its immediate parent company of the group, and determined that the company has sufficient working capital for its need for at least the next 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. In view of this, the directors consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ELMDENE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED · parent
- Potter Elmdene Security Product Co., Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “At the year end, there is a £40,000 (2023: £40,000) guarantee held in favour of HMRC provided by the company's bankers.”
- “The company has an invoice financing agreement with HSBC Bank PLC, at the year end there is a fixed charge in place over the assets of the company held in favour of the company's bankers.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADKINS, David | Secretary | 2024-12-31 | — | — |
| ADKINS, David John | Director | 2020-12-10 | Jul 1961 | British |
| RAMSAY, Sharon | Director | 2015-02-01 | May 1970 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONNOLLY, Gerald Francis | Secretary | 2019-11-12 | 2024-12-31 |
| EARL, Celia Margaret | Secretary | — | 2008-03-28 |
| LEARS, Bernard Joseph | Secretary | 2008-03-28 | 2019-11-12 |
| CONNOLLY, Gerald Francis | Director | 2019-11-12 | 2024-12-31 |
| DIX, Brian John | Director | 1996-07-01 | 2008-03-28 |
| EARL, Anthony Ian | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2008-08-14 |
| EARL, Anthony Ian | Director | — | 2008-03-28 |
| EARL, Celia Margaret | Director | — | 2008-03-28 |
| FENTON, Mark | Director | 2019-11-12 | 2020-04-30 |
| HALL, David Patrick, Dr | Director | 1999-11-09 | 2001-02-04 |
| HELLABY, Richard William | Director | 2005-04-18 | 2008-03-28 |
| HESKETT, Michael Sean | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2019-11-12 |
| LEARS, Bernard Joseph | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2019-11-12 |
| MCDERMOTT, Lindsay | Director | 1991-12-23 | 1999-07-31 |
| MILLAR, John Henry Paul | Director | 2010-05-14 | 2012-02-09 |
| MILLAR, John Henry Paul | Director | 2000-11-09 | 2008-03-28 |
| MOORE, Ian Frederick | Director | 2010-04-01 | 2015-01-31 |
| STEWART, Christopher John | Director | 1995-09-01 | 2008-03-28 |
| TROTTER, Robert Charles | Director | 1992-04-28 | 1996-02-29 |
| WHELDON, Guy | Director | 2004-12-14 | 2005-03-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David John Adkins | Individual | Significant influence | 2020-12-10 | Active |
| Mr Gerald Francis Connolly | Individual | Significant influence | 2019-11-12 | Ceased 2024-12-31 |
| Mr Mark Fenton | Individual | Significant influence | 2019-11-12 | Ceased 2020-04-30 |
| Ms Sharon Ramsay | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-08-01 |
| Mr Bernard Joseph Lears | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-11-12 |
| Mr Michael Sean Heskett | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-11-12 |
| Elmdene Investments Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 175 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-05 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-09 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-04-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-23 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
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Turnover
+10%
£12,676,769 £13,947,079
-
Cash
-12.8%
£3,660,089 £3,192,516
-
Net assets
+26.4%
£6,971,628 £8,810,485
-
Employees
-2%
50 49
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Operating profit
+55%
£1,499,111 £2,324,322
-
Profit before tax
+58.3%
£1,494,638 £2,365,819
-
Wages
+4.2%
£2,631,891 £2,743,705
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