MIELE COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-12 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£11M
-35.8% lowest in 4 filed years
Net assets
£30M
-5.7% vs 2023
Employees
410
-1.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£6M
+2.6% vs 2023
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2021-01-01 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £171,358,000 | £192,242,000 | £179,277,000 | £171,707,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | £8,468,000 | £7,631,000 | £5,406,000 | £5,771,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £8,227,000 | £7,346,000 | £5,519,000 | £5,660,000 | |
| Net profit | — | £6,489,000 | £5,739,000 | £3,958,000 | £3,640,000 | |
| Cash | — | £30,236,000 | £12,991,000 | £16,581,000 | £10,648,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £58,866,000 | £40,834,000 | £41,931,000 | £37,257,000 | |
| Net assets | — | £33,387,000 | £28,508,000 | £31,532,000 | £29,723,000 | |
| Equity | £24,338,000 | £33,387,000 | £28,508,000 | £31,532,000 | £29,723,000 | |
| Average employees | — | 403 | 410 | 417 | 410 | |
| Wages | — | £17,012,000 | £18,935,000 | £18,636,000 | £19,361,000 |
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 | 2021-01-01 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 4.9% | 4.0% | 3.0% | 3.4% | |
| Net margin | — | 3.8% | 3.0% | 2.2% | 2.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 14.4% | 18.7% | 12.9% | 15.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | 53.3% | 52.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 1.86x | 1.69x | |
| Interest cover | — | 34.70x | 21.44x | 38.07x | 26.00x |
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
- Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence, and meet its liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Group structure
- MIELE COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Imperial Appliances (UK) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “opening of two additional experience centres in London and Cambridge”
- “Miele Performance Programme was launched at the company”
- “increased our roll-out of our electric vehicle (EV) fleet, and started introducing EV technician vans.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PICKERING, John Robert | Secretary | 2018-10-01 | — | — |
| KIHM, Rolf | Director | 2017-08-01 | Mar 1967 | Swiss |
| PICKERING, John Robert | Director | 2018-10-01 | Jul 1968 | British |
| ZBINDEN, Nicolas | Director | 2017-08-01 | Sep 1977 | Swiss |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTRAM, Timothy Charles Andrew | Secretary | 2018-04-27 | 2018-10-01 |
| GRANTHAM, Antony Simon | Secretary | 2006-02-21 | 2018-04-27 |
| JEANES, Michael Frederick | Secretary | 1993-01-25 | 2006-02-21 |
| WEDEKIND, Karl Heinz | Secretary | — | 1993-01-25 |
| BERTRAM, Tim Charles Andrew | Director | 2018-04-27 | 2018-10-01 |
| GRANTHAM, Antony Simon | Director | 2006-02-21 | 2018-04-27 |
| JEANES, Michael Frederick | Director | 1994-09-19 | 2006-02-21 |
| KAESER, Werner | Director | 1994-09-19 | 2002-02-12 |
| KNECHT, Jorg Richard | Director | 2002-02-12 | 2017-08-01 |
| MEYER, Arno | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| STUDER, Bernhard, Doctor | Director | 2002-12-31 | 2004-03-01 |
| SUNDER, Wilfred | Director | — | 1994-09-19 |
| VOEGELE, Beat | Director | 2004-03-01 | 2017-08-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 123 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2018-10-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2018-10-16 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2018-10-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2018-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
-
Turnover
-4.2%
£179,277,000 £171,707,000
-
Cash
-35.8%
£16,581,000 £10,648,000
lowest in 4 filed years
-
Net assets
-5.7%
£31,532,000 £29,723,000
-
Employees
-1.7%
417 410
-
Operating profit
+6.8%
£5,406,000 £5,771,000
-
Profit before tax
+2.6%
£5,519,000 £5,660,000
-
Wages
+3.9%
£18,636,000 £19,361,000
highest in 4 filed years
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers