COUGAR AUTOMATION LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-23 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+24.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
-8% vs 2023
Employees
87
-3.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+544.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- COUGAR AUTOMATION LIMITED 1989-08-01 → present
- ARMPAR LIMITED 1989-06-20 → 1989-08-01
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 | £9,734,000 | £9,994,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£353,000 | £971,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£247,000 | £1,097,000 | |
| Net profit | -£182,000 | £815,000 | |
| Cash | £2,472,000 | £3,088,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,822,000 | £2,543,000 | |
| Net assets | £2,309,000 | £2,124,000 | |
| Equity | £2,309,000 | £2,124,000 | |
| Average employees | 90 | 87 | |
| Wages | £4,626,000 | £4,679,000 |
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 | -3.6% | 9.7% | |
| Net margin | -1.9% | 8.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -12.5% | 38.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 59.4% | 67.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.75x | 1.46x | |
| Interest cover | -20.76x | 64.73x |
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
- Constantin
- 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. The Company therefore 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
4 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER, Rachael Eden | Secretary | 2021-11-25 | — | — |
| DEDAT, Ayyub | Director | 2022-03-31 | Nov 1975 | British |
| SHAW, Robert Antony | Director | 2024-09-02 | Nov 1972 | English |
| VAN DER VORD, Scott | Director | 2019-10-27 | Mar 1985 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTCHINSON, Clive Andrew | Secretary | 2002-09-02 | 2017-10-23 |
| SELLWOOD, Richard John | Secretary | — | 2002-09-02 |
| BURTON, Derek Robert | Director | 1999-04-19 | 2017-10-23 |
| CAMPBELL, Mark | Director | 2013-09-23 | 2017-10-23 |
| COATES, David John | Director | 2007-01-22 | 2017-10-23 |
| GOUGH, Christopher Martyn | Director | 1996-09-01 | 2003-06-06 |
| GUERIN, Philippe | Director | 2017-10-23 | 2019-10-27 |
| HUTCHINSON, Clive Andrew | Director | 2001-10-15 | 2017-10-23 |
| LAWRENCE, Peter Cormac | Director | 1996-09-01 | 2000-09-01 |
| PURNELL, John Lawrence | Director | 2000-09-01 | 2008-02-09 |
| RAWLINGS, Christine Elizabeth Baird | Director | — | 2002-04-25 |
| RAWLINGS, Terence Dowse | Director | — | 2002-04-25 |
| SELLWOOD, Richard John | Director | — | 2005-01-18 |
| WIBBERLEY, Donald John | Director | 2013-09-23 | 2017-10-23 |
| ZIYAT, Rochdi | Director | 2017-10-23 | 2022-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinci Energies Uk Holding Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2020-09-10 | Active |
| Cougar Automation Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-08-30 | Ceased 2019-05-21 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 156 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-04 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-09-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-02 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-07 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2022-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- 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
-
Turnover
+2.7%
£9,734,000 £9,994,000
-
Cash
+24.9%
£2,472,000 £3,088,000
-
Net assets
-8%
£2,309,000 £2,124,000
-
Employees
-3.3%
90 87
-
Operating profit
+375.1%
-£353,000 £971,000
-
Profit before tax
+544.1%
-£247,000 £1,097,000
-
Wages
+1.1%
£4,626,000 £4,679,000
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