CANON (UK) LIMITED — The Accounts

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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

£937K

+15.8% vs 2023

Net assets

-£198M

-3.8% vs 2023

Employees

1,332

-0.9% vs 2023

Profit before tax

-£14M

-175.7% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

CANON (UK) LIMITED 1976-12-31 → present
CANON COPIERS (U.K.) LIMITED 1976-06-21 → 1976-12-31

Net assets

2-year trend · vs Industrials median

CANON (UK) LIMITED·Industrials median · n=6236

Accounts

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

Metric	2023-12-31	2024-12-31
Turnover	£376,526,000	£351,308,000
Operating profit	£7,106,000	£4,375,000
Profit before tax	-£5,165,000	-£14,241,000
Net profit	-£3,747,000	-£11,043,000
Cash	£809,000	£937,000
Total assets less current liabilities	-£188,222,000	-£193,948,000
Net assets	-£191,102,000	-£198,456,000
Equity	-£191,102,000	-£198,456,000
Average employees	1,344	1,332
Wages	£65,401,000	£65,635,000

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	1.9%	1.2%
Net margin	-1.0%	-3.1%
Return on capital employed	-3.8%	-2.3%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	158.6%	152.9%
Current ratio	0.30x	0.27x
Interest cover	0.39x	0.18x

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 directors have no intention to liquidate the company. The company has the support of Canon Europa NV in meeting its liabilities as they fall due, including funding the pension deficit contributions and accordingly the directors consider that the company has significant resources to meet Its llabilities as they fall due in the foreseeable future, being no less than twelve months from the approval of these financial statements.”

Group structure

CANON (UK) LIMITED · parent
1. Canon (Irl) Business Equipment Limited 1% · Ireland · Sale/service - office equipment

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

People

3 active · 39 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
NARAHARA, Christophe	Secretary	2026-01-28	—	—
JACOBS, Guido Alex	Director	2025-04-01	Mar 1966	German
PAGET, Matthew Arthur	Director	2025-10-13	Nov 1973	British

Show 39 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
BATESON, David John	Secretary	2007-05-01	2018-06-26
ESHELBY, Zoe	Secretary	2018-06-26	2026-01-28
EVERETT-PASCOE, Surrie June	Secretary	—	2003-03-31
SUZUKI, Michio	Secretary	2003-04-01	2007-04-30
ANTHEM, Peter John	Director	2019-01-21	2019-07-01
BATES, Stephen Robert	Director	2015-01-01	2018-12-20
BROWN, Peter James	Director	2019-07-01	2020-04-01
BROWN, Peter James	Director	2003-09-01	2007-09-10
COVE, Richard William	Director	2003-09-01	2007-01-01
ELEY, Norman Edward	Director	2001-01-01	2007-09-10
GRAVENER, Ian Leslie	Director	—	1999-03-31
GUERIN, Patrick Michael	Director	1994-01-01	2002-02-08
HALL, Robert Christopher	Director	1998-01-01	2000-01-31
HOLMES, Lyn	Director	2020-04-01	2025-10-13
HOLMES, Lyn	Director	2011-02-01	2019-01-31
IWARSSON, Hans Georg	Director	2010-04-19	2015-01-01
KATAYAMA, Hajime	Director	1996-04-30	1999-03-01
KENNBERT, Lars Erik	Director	2001-01-01	2005-12-31
LAWS, Martin Frederick	Director	—	2000-12-31
LEIPNIK, James Edward	Director	1998-01-01	2000-12-31
MACMILLAN, Keith, Professor	Director	—	2003-01-31
MCNALLY, Edmond John	Director	2009-07-01	2011-02-01
MIZOGUCHI, Yusuke	Director	2019-01-02	2025-03-17
MOLGAARD JENSEN, Mogens	Director	2001-03-01	2003-09-01
OMORI, Yoshinari	Director	—	1997-12-31
PEARCE, Jennifer	Director	2012-01-17	2013-05-31
RECIO, Antonio	Director	2007-09-10	2015-07-01
ROMAINES, James Andrew Christopher	Director	1999-01-01	2003-11-17
SMITH, Terry	Director	2007-09-10	2009-07-01
SOYAMA, Takamitsu	Director	1996-02-19	1997-12-31
SOYAMA, Takamitsu	Director	—	1993-06-30
TANAKA, Masahiro	Director	—	1996-04-30
THORNE, Sydney Ronald	Director	—	1994-12-31
TSUDA, Shin	Director	1998-01-01	1999-11-30
TSURUOKA, Hajime	Director	1999-03-01	2007-09-10
VICKERS, Andrew John	Director	2006-01-01	2010-01-15
WILLS, Anthony Karl	Director	2001-07-01	2002-10-31
WOOLSTON, David Dunbar	Director	1994-01-01	1997-12-31
YAMASHITA, Yukio	Director	—	1995-12-31

Ownership

Persons with significant control

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

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 243 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-01-30	TM02	officers	Termination secretary company with name termination date	PDF
2026-01-30	AP03	officers	Appoint person secretary company with name date	PDF
2025-10-20	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2025-10-20	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2025-08-04	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-07-28	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-04-02	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2025-03-18	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2024-10-02	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-08-02	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-10-30	AD02	address	Change sail address company with old address new address	PDF
2023-10-17	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-08-01	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-10-07	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-08-16	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-03-28	PSC05	persons-with-significant-control	Change to a person with significant control	PDF
2022-03-15	AD01	address	Change registered office address company with date old address new address	PDF
2021-10-02	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2021-08-20	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-01-12	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 6
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 2
Officers resigned: 2

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

-6.7%

£376,526,000 £351,308,000
Cash

+15.8%

£809,000 £937,000
Net assets

-3.8%

-£191,102,000 -£198,456,000
Employees

-0.9%

1,344 1,332
Operating profit

-38.4%

£7,106,000 £4,375,000
Profit before tax

-175.7%

-£5,165,000 -£14,241,000
Wages

+0.4%

£65,401,000 £65,635,000

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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