EUROPLACER LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-15 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-29.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£9M
-28% vs 2023
Employees
196
-8.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£4M
-421% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- EUROPLACER LIMITED 2021-02-23 → present
- BLAKELL EUROPLACER LIMITED 1996-01-04 → 2021-02-23
- BLAKELL SYSTEMS LIMITED 1986-09-04 → 1996-01-04
- BLAKELL-PARFITT SYSTEMS LIMITED 1980-12-31 → 1986-09-04
- BLAKELL SYSTEMS LIMITED 1970-07-08 → 1980-12-31
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 | £37,650,000 | £28,394,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,084,000 | -£3,506,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,093,000 | -£3,509,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,000,000 | -£3,249,000 | |
| Cash | £2,735,000 | £1,917,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,265,000 | £11,351,000 | |
| Net assets | £13,036,000 | £9,385,000 | |
| Equity | £13,036,000 | £9,385,000 | |
| Average employees | 215 | 196 | |
| Wages | £10,274,000 | £9,521,000 |
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 | 2.9% | -12.3% | |
| Net margin | 2.7% | -11.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.1% | -30.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.66x | 2.41x | |
| Interest cover | 108.40x | -100.17x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- S&W Partners Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. From reviewing the group's forecasts and projections and taking account of reasonable possible changes in trading performance as a consequence of an uncertain economic climate, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group and parent company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least 12 months from the date that the accounts are approved.”
Group structure
- EUROPLACER LIMITED · parent
- Europlacer Industries SAS 100%
- Europlacer (INTL) Limited 100%
- Europlacer Americas Inc. 100%
- Europlacer (Shanghai) Co. Limited 100%
- Europlacer Italia srl 100%
- Europlacer Deutschland GmbH 100%
- Europlacer (Asia Pacific) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Group sales £28.4 million (2023: £37.7 million) has decreased of 25% affecting all the main territories in relation with the Global SMT Placement market declining by 27% in 2024 following a decline also in 2023.”
- “Group order intake of £30 million is down on 2023 (£32.5m) and reflects the Global SMT Placement market decline noted above.”
- “We released 2 new Placement machines to the market during 2024.”
- “To react to the market downturn the Group has focused on 3 pillars: Liquidity - Orders - Quality with significant achievements being made in all areas.”
- “As part of our succession planning, we have strengthened the Board with the appointment of S A Badger, who has taken over as Executive Chairman from R J Conway with effect from 1st January 2025.”
- “Per 1st of January 2025, the company Parable Trust Limited have been appointed as a Corporate Director.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHOTLIFF, Tracey Jayne | Secretary | 2014-10-14 | — | — |
| APPLETON, John Christopher | Director | 2025-09-01 | Aug 1952 | British |
| BADGER, Simon Anthony | Director | 2024-05-09 | Jul 1976 | British |
| BOARDMAN, Julian Lionel Andrew | Director | 2014-09-15 | Jul 1960 | British |
| MOORE, William Andrew | Director | 2025-09-01 | Nov 1988 | British |
| PARABLE TRUST LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2025-01-01 | — | — |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOARDMAN, Julian Lionel Andrew | Secretary | 2005-01-10 | 2014-10-14 |
| KELLARD, Patrick | Secretary | — | 2004-12-02 |
| CONWAY, Robert John | Director | 2005-07-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| GASTON, Robert Derek Samuel | Director | 1998-09-09 | 2013-02-20 |
| HOLT, Christopher Mark | Director | 2018-03-27 | 2024-05-29 |
| KELLARD, Jennifer Ann | Director | — | 2013-02-26 |
| KELLARD, Patrick | Director | — | 2004-12-02 |
| LOUIS, Philip Winston | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2014-09-15 |
| MCNEILL, Brodie, Mr. | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2018-03-27 |
| MORENO, Victor Eduardo Lorenzo, Rev | Director | 2019-09-12 | 2024-05-09 |
| MORENO, Victor Eduardo Lorenzo, Mr. | Director | 2014-09-15 | 2014-09-15 |
| MORENO, Victor Eduardo Lorenzo, Rev | Director | 2014-09-15 | 2019-06-30 |
| RAMSER, Michel | Director | 2020-01-01 | 2024-05-29 |
| SCHEIDEGGER, Michaël Dominique | Director | 2018-05-08 | 2019-08-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parable Trust Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-06 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-07-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
-24.6%
£37,650,000 £28,394,000
-
Cash
-29.9%
£2,735,000 £1,917,000
-
Net assets
-28%
£13,036,000 £9,385,000
-
Employees
-8.8%
215 196
-
Operating profit
-423.4%
£1,084,000 -£3,506,000
-
Profit before tax
-421%
£1,093,000 -£3,509,000
-
Wages
-7.3%
£10,274,000 £9,521,000
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