ELSTER METERING LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-05-15 (this month)

Last made up 2025-05-01

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£36M

+1.3% vs 2023

Net assets

£38M

+8.9% vs 2023

Employees

-10% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£4M

+74.1% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

ELSTER METERING LIMITED 2002-12-05 → present
ABB METERING LIMITED 1999-01-15 → 2002-12-05
KENT METERS LIMITED 1966-03-14 → 1999-01-15

Net assets

2-year trend · vs Technology median

ELSTER METERING LIMITED·Technology median · n=967

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Turnover	£31,916,000	£35,280,000
Operating profit	£1,143,000	£2,512,000
Profit before tax	£2,290,000	£3,987,000
Net profit	£2,095,000	£2,957,000
Cash	£35,620,000	£36,084,000
Total assets less current liabilities	£35,135,000	£37,175,000
Net assets	£34,465,000	£37,545,000
Equity	£34,465,000	£37,545,000
Average employees	50	45
Wages	£3,277,000	£2,928,000

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	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Operating margin	3.6%	7.1%
Net margin	6.6%	8.4%
Return on capital employed	3.3%	6.8%
Current ratio	4.11x	4.77x
Interest cover	—	22.84x

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: Deloitte LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“The director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources, including support from Honeywell International Inc. to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future being a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”

Significant events

“There have been no material adjusting or disclosable events since the financial year end.”
“In 2023 Honeywell made the strategic decision to exit the Electricity side of the Smart Energy segment of the Performance Materials and Technology Strategic Business Group.”
“The company had terminated in January 2024 the commercial lease for the property located at Unit 18, Beacon Business Park, Beacon Way, Stafford.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

1 active · 41 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
HAMBLIN, Matthew William	Director	2022-07-12	Mar 1967	British

Show 41 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
HEARD, Nicholas James	Secretary	2012-10-24	2014-04-16
LANCASTER, Jeremy Graham, Mr.	Secretary	1999-08-21	2009-12-18
MARTIN, John William	Secretary	1992-04-01	1997-03-31
NESBIT, David Norman	Secretary	1999-04-26	1999-08-20
RAYMENT, Paul Stephen	Secretary	1997-04-01	1999-04-26
ROLLS, Neil Ian	Secretary	2009-12-18	2012-10-24
WESTLEY, Adam David Christopher	Secretary	2014-04-16	2015-12-22
WOOLF, Gordon, Financial Director	Secretary	—	1992-03-31
BARNES, Garry Elliot, Mr.	Director	2012-10-24	2015-12-22
BETTRAY, Theodor Johannes	Director	2003-03-26	2012-10-24
BUTTERY, Paul Warwick	Director	2001-01-19	2003-03-28
CLARKE, David John	Director	1999-04-26	2002-06-21
CRAWFORD, Jonathon Colin Fyfe	Director	2014-02-11	2015-12-22
DAY, Colin Richard	Director	1993-02-17	1995-02-10
ESCHENRODER, Gerhard	Director	2003-03-26	2005-09-30
FIRTH, Stuart Martin	Director	1995-06-12	1996-02-05
GABRIEL, Timothy John	Director	2007-11-08	2012-01-26
GABRIEL, Timothy John	Director	1992-04-01	1999-04-26
GALLEY, Michael John	Director	1994-07-07	1998-09-30
GRAYSON, Patrick Terence	Director	1994-01-01	1994-12-31
HARPUM, Richard	Director	2002-06-20	2003-03-21
HENDERSON, John Wilson	Director	—	1993-03-31
HOWARD, Lindsay	Director	2015-12-18	2018-09-30
HUGHES, David Alun	Director	1999-08-31	2001-03-31
KRESS, Kolja	Director	2015-12-18	2016-12-31
LOWE, Garfield Joseph	Director	2020-09-18	2022-01-01
MARTIN, Geoffrey Peter	Director	2012-10-24	2015-12-22
MARTIN, John William	Director	1992-04-01	2000-12-22
MCLAUGHLIN, William	Director	1998-10-01	2002-11-29
MELVILLE, Paul	Director	2019-01-30	2020-04-24
NOTLEY, John Percival William	Director	—	1998-09-30
O'NEILL, James Grant	Director	2022-01-01	2022-07-12
RAYMENT, Paul Stephen	Director	1998-04-01	1999-04-26
ROGERS, Ivor Thomas	Director	—	1999-04-26
SIBLEY, Anthony Robert John	Director	—	1994-03-31
STOTEN, Terence Arthur	Director	—	1992-03-31
THOMSON, David James, Mr.	Director	2016-12-31	2017-12-22
THOMSON, David James, Mr.	Director	2007-09-04	2012-10-24
VINCENT, Gary Mark	Director	2018-09-30	2020-09-18
VINCENT, Gary Mark	Director	2012-01-23	2012-10-24
WOOLF, Gordon, Financial Director	Director	—	1992-03-31

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Elster Metering Holdings Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors	2016-04-06	Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 197 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-04-03	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2026-03-10	DISS40	gazette	Gazette filings brought up to date
2026-03-03	GAZ1	gazette	Gazette notice compulsory
2025-06-13	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-05-13	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-08-12	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-05-02	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-07-25	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-05-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-08-26	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2022-08-11	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2022-05-06	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-03-17	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-01-06	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2022-01-06	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2021-05-06	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2020-10-25	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2020-09-25	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2020-09-25	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2020-05-28	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 5
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

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

+10.5%

£31,916,000 £35,280,000
Cash

+1.3%

£35,620,000 £36,084,000
Net assets

+8.9%

£34,465,000 £37,545,000
Employees

-10%

50 45
Operating profit

+119.8%

£1,143,000 £2,512,000
Profit before tax

+74.1%

£2,290,000 £3,987,000
Wages

-10.6%

£3,277,000 £2,928,000

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

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