ELECOSOFT UK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-27 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+87.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£16M
+24.2% vs 2023
Employees
102
+5.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8M
+33.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- ELECOSOFT UK LTD 2015-06-30 → present
- ELECOSOFT UK PLC 2015-06-30 → 2015-06-30
- ASTA DEVELOPMENT PLC 1999-09-01 → 2015-06-30
- ASTA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED 1987-04-09 → 1999-09-01
- GUARDSTOCK LIMITED 1986-05-20 → 1987-04-09
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £13,862,710 | £16,345,299 | |
| Operating profit | £5,538,879 | £7,387,697 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,926,618 | £7,930,328 | |
| Net profit | £5,400,259 | £7,171,261 | |
| Cash | £4,294,584 | £8,034,571 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,170,050 | £16,341,311 | |
| Net assets | £13,099,224 | £16,270,485 | |
| Equity | £13,099,224 | £16,270,485 | |
| Average employees | 97 | 102 | |
| Wages | £4,932,022 | £5,471,938 |
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 | 40.0% | 45.2% | |
| Net margin | 39.0% | 43.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 42.1% | 45.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 31.2% | 32.3% | |
| Current ratio | 3.23x | 3.11x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future, including the ability to settle Group companies financial liabilities, being at least the twelve month period from approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, the Company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, Jonathan Albert | Director | 2018-01-12 | Nov 1978 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTON, Ivor Ashley | Secretary | 2006-12-15 | 2014-07-21 |
| COURTS, Andrew Llewellyn | Secretary | 2014-07-21 | 2016-06-29 |
| MCCULLEN, Michael Barry | Secretary | — | 1998-03-04 |
| THOMPSON, Peter Malcolm | Secretary | 1998-03-04 | 2006-12-15 |
| BAMFORTH, Paul Craig | Director | 2002-09-18 | 2012-12-21 |
| CAPPER, Kenneth Victor | Director | — | 1998-12-31 |
| CAW, Nicholas James Baxter | Director | 2015-06-22 | 2016-04-18 |
| CHOI, Richard | Director | 2022-06-20 | 2022-11-10 |
| DANNHAUSER, David Stephen | Director | 2006-12-15 | 2010-07-15 |
| FOZARD, John | Director | — | 1993-04-16 |
| HUGHES, David Aled | Director | 2023-09-06 | 2024-06-12 |
| JONES, Ian Charles Frederick | Director | 2018-06-04 | 2018-11-21 |
| KETTELEY, John Henry Beevor | Director | 2015-06-22 | 2020-09-23 |
| KETTELEY, John Henry Beevor | Director | 2006-12-15 | 2010-07-15 |
| MCCULLEN, Michael Barry | Director | — | 2015-01-09 |
| ORMEROD, Richard Norman | Director | — | 2000-12-31 |
| PLEACE, Richard Arthur Dennis | Director | — | 2012-12-05 |
| RUDDLE, Jason Barnaby | Director | 2015-01-09 | 2018-01-12 |
| SINCLAIR, Charles Mark | Director | — | 2000-03-31 |
| THOMPSON, Peter Malcolm | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2025-04-29 |
| WALKER, Kenneth Cecil | Director | 1999-01-01 | 2006-12-15 |
| WILLARD, Andrew John | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2012-12-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asta Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 212 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-05 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-08-28 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-06-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-10-27 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-10-25 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
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Turnover
+17.9%
£13,862,710 £16,345,299
-
Cash
+87.1%
£4,294,584 £8,034,571
-
Net assets
+24.2%
£13,099,224 £16,270,485
-
Employees
+5.2%
97 102
-
Operating profit
+33.4%
£5,538,879 £7,387,697
-
Profit before tax
+33.8%
£5,926,618 £7,930,328
-
Wages
+10.9%
£4,932,022 £5,471,938
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