CREDERA LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-07 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-24
Watchouts
Cash
£0
-100% vs 2023
Net assets
£11M
+1.4% vs 2023
Employees
303
-15.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£10M
-16.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- CREDERA LIMITED 2021-03-11 → present
- THE DMW GROUP LIMITED 1989-08-29 → 2021-03-11
- SPECBAT LIMITED 1989-05-22 → 1989-08-29
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 | £62,760,704 | £50,646,833 | |
| Operating profit | £11,329,038 | £9,454,407 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,593,872 | £9,722,536 | |
| Net profit | £8,996,768 | £7,245,618 | |
| Cash | £55,642 | £0 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,000,936 | £10,919,662 | |
| Net assets | £10,589,061 | £10,734,679 | |
| Equity | £10,589,061 | £10,734,679 | |
| Average employees | 359 | 303 | |
| Wages | £33,136,649 | £26,458,708 |
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 | 18.1% | 18.7% | |
| Net margin | 14.3% | 14.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 103.0% | 86.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 44.8% | 33.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.26x | 3.05x | |
| Interest cover | 332.62x | 272.71x |
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
- Lubbock Fine LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors believe it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis which assumes that the Company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future based on the Company's plans and the continued support of the Group.”
Significant events
- “On 7 March 2025, the company declared dividends of £3,300,000 to its parent entity.”
- “On 22 May 2025, the company declared dividends of £2,750,000 to its parent entity.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 28 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRAYNOR, John Devon | Secretary | 2025-08-28 | — | — |
| BETTS, John Martin William | Director | 2020-07-27 | Jan 1971 | British |
| KILVINGTON, Helen Alice | Director | 2019-12-20 | Nov 1980 | British |
| MILLER, Ewan James | Director | 2025-09-01 | Nov 1972 | British |
| RUBIN, Marius Ernest | Director | 2019-12-20 | Jun 1988 | British |
| SMITH, Donal Patrick | Director | 2025-09-01 | Apr 1979 | British |
| SOKOLOWSKI, Kathleen Maria | Director | 2026-01-16 | Jul 1979 | British |
| WARDLE, John Henry | Director | 2020-07-27 | Dec 1967 | British |
Show 28 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAY, Sally-Ann | Secretary | 2020-08-01 | 2025-08-28 |
| ELWEN, David Vivian | Secretary | 1995-06-27 | 2014-01-01 |
| GREENHALGH, Simon Nicholas | Secretary | 2014-01-01 | 2020-07-27 |
| GRIMSHAW, John Adrian Varcoe | Secretary | — | 1995-06-27 |
| BELL, Justin Wade | Director | 2020-07-27 | 2025-04-01 |
| BUCKROYD, Andrew David | Director | 2016-01-14 | 2020-07-27 |
| COSTER, Malcolm David | Director | 2005-10-28 | 2011-06-30 |
| DAVIS, Jonathan Philip Lindsay | Director | 2015-10-08 | 2017-10-19 |
| DEAN, Alexander Christopher | Director | 1994-06-17 | 2025-08-31 |
| DOWTHWAITE, John Curtiss, Dr | Director | 1995-03-03 | 2020-07-27 |
| ELWEN, David Vivian | Director | 1994-06-17 | 2014-04-30 |
| FOTHERINGHAM, John | Director | — | 1992-05-01 |
| GANGI, Craig Francis | Director | 2020-07-27 | 2020-12-04 |
| GANNON, Brian | Director | — | 1994-10-22 |
| GREENHALGH, Simon Nicholas | Director | 2015-02-24 | 2026-02-03 |
| GRIMSHAW, John Adrian Varcoe | Director | 1994-06-17 | 1995-01-11 |
| NEALE, Matthew Richard | Director | 2019-12-20 | 2021-05-17 |
| OLSEN, Jeremy Neal | Director | 2014-02-13 | 2018-05-04 |
| PARLETT, Timothy | Director | — | 1994-10-22 |
| PITTS, Michael Oliver | Director | 2014-02-13 | 2016-10-11 |
| PROUT, James Martin | Director | 1991-05-27 | 1994-01-17 |
| RIDGWAY, Angus | Director | 2015-02-01 | 2017-10-19 |
| SCOTT, Jane | Director | 2016-03-10 | 2017-10-19 |
| WALKER, Mark | Director | 2020-12-04 | 2025-04-01 |
| WARD, Michael John | Director | 2003-05-01 | 2005-10-02 |
| WEBB, Daniel Felix Anders | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2025-08-31 |
| WILKINSON, Sydney Munroe | Director | 1994-06-17 | 1999-04-30 |
| WILLIAMS, Simon John | Director | 1997-03-16 | 2017-02-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credera Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-02-13 | Active |
| The Dmw Group Management Limited | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm | 2017-11-07 | Ceased 2025-02-13 |
| Mr Christopher Alexander Dean | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-02-20 | Ceased 2017-11-07 |
| Dr John Curtiss Dowthwaite | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-02-20 | Ceased 2017-11-07 |
| Mr Andrew David Buckroyd | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-02-20 | Ceased 2017-11-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 286 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-18 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
-19.3%
£62,760,704 £50,646,833
-
Cash
-100%
£55,642 £0
-
Net assets
+1.4%
£10,589,061 £10,734,679
-
Employees
-15.6%
359 303
-
Operating profit
-16.5%
£11,329,038 £9,454,407
-
Profit before tax
-16.1%
£11,593,872 £9,722,536
-
Wages
-20.2%
£33,136,649 £26,458,708
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