LEICA CAMERA LIMITED — The Accounts

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Next accounts due

2026-12-31 (in 7mo)

Last filed for 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-11-04 (in 6mo)

Last made up 2025-10-21

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£1M

-21.6% lowest in 5 filed years

Net assets

£4M

+11.5% highest in 5 filed years

Employees

+13.2% highest in 5 filed years

Profit before tax

£614K

-23.3% vs 2024

Name history

Renamed 3 times since incorporation

LEICA CAMERA LIMITED 1990-04-12 → present
E LEITZ (INSTRUMENTS) LIMITED 1989-08-21 → 1990-04-12
WILD LEITZ UK LIMITED 1988-12-16 → 1989-08-21
ABLEBLADE LIMITED 1988-10-21 → 1988-12-16

Net assets

5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median

LEICA CAMERA LIMITED·Consumer Discretionary median · n=2305

Accounts

5-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31

Metric	2020-03-31	2021-03-31	2022-03-31	2024-03-31	2025-03-31
Turnover	£16,298,742	£12,587,567	£17,487,618	£22,153,932	£22,738,586
Operating profit	£188,750	£432,881	£780,595	£924,970	£707,519
Profit before tax	£101,331	£346,908	£718,522	£799,668	£613,561
Net profit	—	—	—	£628,030	£446,194
Cash	£1,251,172	£1,155,867	£3,250,272	£1,421,474	£1,113,834
Total assets less current liabilities	£9,038,092	£6,599,293	£4,934,093	£5,769,796	£5,564,723
Net assets	£3,656,138	£3,952,530	£3,004,219	£3,891,482	£4,337,676
Equity	£3,656,138	£3,952,530	£3,004,219	£3,891,482	£4,337,676
Average employees	33	33	32	38	43
Wages	—	—	—	£2,151,562	£2,491,077

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	2020-03-31	2021-03-31	2022-03-31	2024-03-31	2025-03-31
Operating margin	1.2%	3.4%	4.5%	4.2%	3.1%
Net margin	—	—	—	2.8%	2.0%
Return on capital employed	2.1%	6.6%	15.8%	16.0%	12.7%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	—	—	—	55.6%	45.9%
Current ratio	—	—	—	1.91x	2.26x
Interest cover	2.16x	5.04x	12.58x	7.38x	7.53x

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: Rödl & Partner Limited
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future based on the operations of the company and the commitment of financial support received from parent entity. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and financial statements.”

Significant events

“At the date of the signing of these accounts, the war in Ukrain had no material impact on the company's day-to-day activities or financial performance.”

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

People

4 active · 21 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
DEVYATERIKOVA, Tatiana	Secretary	2018-05-14	—	—
AHMAD PEREZ, Farah	Director	2023-01-16	Jun 1971	British
DOYRAN, Kurt Erol, Mr.	Director	2019-07-24	Aug 1972	German
VOLL, Andreas Manfred	Director	2026-04-01	Jul 1981	German

Show 21 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
GAILLIEZ, Denis Compton	Secretary	—	2014-05-29
MORTON, William John	Secretary	2014-05-29	2018-04-30
BELL, David John	Director	2006-04-01	2014-06-30
FREY, Bruno Erwin, Doctor	Director	—	1992-10-01
HARSCH, Matthias Karl Jakob	Director	2017-09-13	2026-03-31
HEWARD, Jason	Director	2015-04-01	2022-09-05
HINTNER, Johannes Ulrich	Director	—	2004-01-12
HOFMANN, Klaus-Dieter	Director	—	1998-06-30
KALTNER, Oliver Alfred Karl-Heinz	Director	2015-02-18	2017-09-13
KAUFMANN, Andreas, Dr	Director	2008-03-01	2009-07-28
KRAMER, Burkhard	Director	—	1992-06-30
KRUMHOFF, Peter	Director	2000-01-24	2001-06-30
LEE, Steven Kenneth	Director	2007-02-21	2008-02-22
LOBEJAEGER, Andreas Erich	Director	2007-02-21	2012-03-31
PETERS, Ronald Marcel	Director	2012-07-01	2019-07-15
SCHOPF, Alfred	Director	2010-10-28	2015-02-18
SIMON, Werner, Dr	Director	1992-10-02	1994-03-28
SPICHTIG, Josef Karl	Director	2006-04-01	2006-11-22
SPILLER, Rudolf Hermann	Director	2009-07-29	2010-08-19
UCKELE, Dieter Walter	Director	2001-09-01	2005-08-31
WOLFF, Roland	Director	2004-01-13	2006-03-31

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Mr Jason David Heward	Individual	Significant influence	2016-04-06	Ceased 2022-09-05
Dr Andreas Kaufmann	Individual	Shares 50–75%	2016-04-06	Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 152 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-04-02	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2026-04-02	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2025-12-27	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-11-05	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-01-07	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-10-25	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-01-05	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-11-15	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-01-20	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-01-19	PSC01	persons-with-significant-control	Notification of a person with significant control	PDF
2022-11-07	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-09-26	AAMD	accounts	Accounts amended with accounts type full
2022-09-14	PSC07	persons-with-significant-control	Cessation of a person with significant control	PDF
2022-09-14	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2022-09-08	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type total exemption full	PDF
2022-05-23	AAMD	accounts	Accounts amended with accounts type full
2021-12-30	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type total exemption full	PDF
2021-11-05	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-05-04	AUD	auditors	Auditors resignation company
2021-04-12	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 4
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 1
Officers resigned: 1

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

Year-on-year

FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31

Turnover

+2.6%

£22,153,932 £22,738,586

highest in 5 filed years
Cash

-21.6%

£1,421,474 £1,113,834

lowest in 5 filed years
Net assets

+11.5%

£3,891,482 £4,337,676

highest in 5 filed years
Employees

+13.2%

38 43

highest in 5 filed years
Operating profit

-23.5%

£924,970 £707,519
Profit before tax

-23.3%

£799,668 £613,561
Wages

+15.8%

£2,151,562 £2,491,077

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

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