HEXAGON METROLOGY SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-26 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£22M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£314M
-0.8% vs 2023
Employees
38
-13.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£44M
+945.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HEXAGON METROLOGY SERVICES LIMITED 2009-12-17 → present
- C.E.JOHANSSON LIMITED 1963-09-30 → 2009-12-17
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 | £78,285,000 | £72,950,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£2,442,000 | £46,749,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,216,000 | £44,118,000 | |
| Net profit | -£6,141,000 | £42,588,000 | |
| Cash | — | £22,154,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £414,310,000 | £313,853,000 | |
| Net assets | £316,420,000 | £313,853,000 | |
| Equity | £316,420,000 | £313,853,000 | |
| Average employees | 44 | 38 | |
| Wages | £5,412,000 | £5,155,000 |
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 | -3.1% | 64.1% | |
| Net margin | -7.8% | 58.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.6% | 14.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.76x | 0.40x | |
| Interest cover | -0.76x | 14.23x |
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
- Wellden Turnbull Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“These Financial Statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which means that the Company will continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. In assessing the appropriateness of the going concern basis of preparation, the Director has taken into account the key risks of the business. In doing so the Director has considered the Company's business model. The Company principally incurs administrative costs and recharges these to fellow group companies at a mark-up. The Company was profit-making during the year and has strong cash reserves as of the balance sheet date of £22m. The Director cites, if required, the continued support and liquidity available from the Company's ultimate parent Hexagon AB should it ever be required. This support extends to the unsecured intercompany loan of £97,890k.”
Group structure
- HEXAGON METROLOGY SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Management AB 20.89%
- Hexagon MI Vietnam Company Ltd 100%
- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Romania srl 95%
- Q-DAS Software Technology (Shanghai) Co. Limited 100%
- Q-DAS Software Private Limited 80%
Significant events
- “In June 2024, the Company sold its entire 100% investment in QDAS GmbH to Volume Graphics GmbH, another company in the Hexagon AB Group.”
- “In January 2025, Q-DAS Software Private Limited, a direct subsidiary of the Company, initiated company dissolution proceedings.”
- “Jingjiang Measuring Tools Co Ltd was sold by Hexagon Group in December 2023.”
- “Subsequent to the year end, management intend to extend the maturity date of the Company's unsecured intercompany loan of £97,890k by a period of two years.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY, Alexander Stafford | Director | 2023-05-24 | May 1972 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEAGLEY, Donna Michelle | Secretary | 1994-01-30 | 1996-01-01 |
| BOSTON, Jo | Secretary | 2004-04-07 | 2006-01-31 |
| BROOK, Angela | Secretary | 1996-01-01 | 1999-07-30 |
| FREER, Peter Stuart | Secretary | 2006-01-31 | 2012-08-20 |
| HOBART, Gary John | Secretary | 1999-07-26 | 2004-04-06 |
| MULCHINOCK, Graham | Secretary | — | 1993-11-25 |
| PEALL, Helen Elizabeth | Secretary | 2013-04-25 | 2026-05-12 |
| ROBINSON, Mark | Secretary | 2012-08-20 | 2013-04-25 |
| ALMEFORS, Nils Arne | Director | — | 1995-10-31 |
| BROWN, David Robert | Director | 2006-02-02 | 2009-09-30 |
| CAVILLE, Iain Mark | Director | 1993-07-14 | 1998-06-12 |
| HOLMBERG, Per Arvid Gustaf | Director | 2005-01-17 | 2009-09-30 |
| JULLIEN, Daniel | Director | 2002-09-30 | 2009-09-30 |
| LOJDQUIST, Thomas Hugo | Director | 1995-11-01 | 2002-09-30 |
| MCGUIGAN, Brian | Director | — | 2005-01-17 |
| MILLS, David Anthony | Director | 2009-09-25 | 2023-09-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hexagon Ab | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-07-18 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 146 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-14 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2021-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-08-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-08-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-09-19 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2019-09-19 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
-6.8%
£78,285,000 £72,950,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-0.8%
£316,420,000 £313,853,000
-
Employees
-13.6%
44 38
-
Operating profit
+2,014.4%
-£2,442,000 £46,749,000
-
Profit before tax
+945.8%
-£5,216,000 £44,118,000
-
Wages
-4.7%
£5,412,000 £5,155,000
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