EUROTUNNEL SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-05 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£378K
+800% vs 2023
Net assets
£34M
+23.8% vs 2023
Employees
901
+5.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8M
+68.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EUROTUNNEL SERVICES LIMITED 1987-10-05 → present
- PRECIS (619) LIMITED 1987-06-30 → 1987-10-05
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 | £65,493,000 | £72,343,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,039,000 | £8,489,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,031,000 | £8,485,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,489,000 | £6,607,000 | |
| Cash | £42,000 | £378,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,788,000 | £34,395,000 | |
| Net assets | £27,786,000 | £34,393,000 | |
| Equity | £27,786,000 | £34,393,000 | |
| Average employees | 851 | 901 | |
| Wages | £43,214,000 | £46,068,000 |
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 | 7.7% | 11.7% | |
| Net margin | 5.3% | 9.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.1% | 24.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 32.7% | 26.0% | |
| Current ratio | 3.05x | 3.84x | |
| Interest cover | — | 2829.67x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having taken into account all available information for the foreseeable future, in particular for the 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements, and having performed the appropriate sensitivity analyses, the directors are of the opinion that the Company will continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- EUROTUNNEL SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Eurotunnel Trustees Limited 100%
Significant events
- “There were no significant events in respect of the Company in 2024.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LERICHE, Yann | Director | 2021-12-10 | Jun 1973 | French |
| LYONS, Nicola | Director | 2025-09-01 | Feb 1973 | Irish |
| THE CHANNEL TUNNEL GROUP | Corporate Director | 2021-09-01 | — | — |
Show 39 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUNNINGTON, Emma | Secretary | 2015-03-25 | 2017-09-07 |
| GARNHAM, Severine Pascale | Secretary | 2010-12-31 | 2014-03-19 |
| GARNHAM, Severine Pascale | Secretary | 2010-12-31 | 2014-03-19 |
| GARNHAM, Severine Pascale | Secretary | 2005-01-25 | 2009-01-01 |
| LEONARD, David Jack | Secretary | 1998-11-01 | 2004-11-30 |
| MCKEOWN, Richard Edmund | Secretary | 1998-08-31 | 1998-11-01 |
| WALKER, Stephen Adrian | Secretary | — | 1998-08-31 |
| CML SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-01-01 | 2010-12-31 |
| BENARD, Andre Pierre Jacques | Director | — | 1994-09-02 |
| BERTRAND, Alain Henri | Director | — | 2005-12-23 |
| BOUDOUSSIER, Michel Jean | Director | 2010-05-17 | 2021-09-01 |
| BURGE, Roger Stanley | Director | 2002-05-16 | 2004-04-30 |
| CHAZOT, Georges Christian | Director | 1994-01-17 | 1994-01-17 |
| CORBETT, Peter Graham | Director | 1995-01-05 | 1996-06-27 |
| DERENNE, Yves Noel Pierre Joseph | Director | — | 1996-09-23 |
| GAUTHEY, Francois | Director | 2016-06-20 | 2020-05-31 |
| GOUNON, Jacques | Director | 2005-07-08 | 2016-06-20 |
| GRANT, Michael John | Director | 1996-09-25 | 1998-03-27 |
| HAWLEY, Nicholas | Director | 2009-05-12 | 2020-05-31 |
| HUAS, Herve | Director | 2004-06-28 | 2005-07-08 |
| LIENARD, Claude Rene | Director | 2010-03-16 | 2012-08-31 |
| MACKAY, Charles Dorsey | Director | 1999-06-18 | 2002-05-16 |
| MALPAS, Robert, Sir | Director | 1996-11-01 | 1999-06-17 |
| MORRISON, Kenneth Glencross | Director | 2010-03-16 | 2016-06-20 |
| MORRISON, Kenneth Glencross | Director | 2005-07-08 | 2005-07-08 |
| MORRISON, Kenneth Glencross | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2005-06-30 |
| MORTON, Robert Alastair Newton, Sir | Director | — | 1996-10-31 |
| MOULINS, Xavier Emmanuel | Director | 2016-06-20 | 2019-03-29 |
| NOULTON, John David | Director | 1995-06-27 | 1998-03-27 |
| RATZER, John Peter Leo | Director | — | 1995-05-12 |
| RAYMOND, Jean Louis | Director | 2004-04-15 | 2005-07-08 |
| REES, Hugh Murray John, M | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2016-06-20 |
| SAINSON, Pascal Georges Armand | Director | 2009-05-12 | 2010-05-17 |
| SHIRREFS, Richard | Director | 1998-03-27 | 2004-04-07 |
| SOUVRAS, Jean-Alexis Charles Henri | Director | 2010-03-16 | 2016-06-20 |
| TROTIGNON, Jean Pierre | Director | 2006-02-01 | 2009-05-12 |
| WALKER, Stephen Adrian | Director | 1996-09-25 | 1998-07-07 |
| WILLACY, Josephine Kay | Director | 2010-03-16 | 2016-06-20 |
| WILSON, David Charles Brooks | Director | — | 1995-01-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Channel Tunnel Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 234 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-05-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-05-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-03-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-15 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2021-09-14 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2021-09-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-13 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2021-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+10.5%
£65,493,000 £72,343,000
-
Cash
+800%
£42,000 £378,000
-
Net assets
+23.8%
£27,786,000 £34,393,000
-
Employees
+5.9%
851 901
-
Operating profit
+68.5%
£5,039,000 £8,489,000
-
Profit before tax
+68.7%
£5,031,000 £8,485,000
-
Wages
+6.6%
£43,214,000 £46,068,000
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