COGENT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-11 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-12% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
+16% vs 2024
Employees
44
+18.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+139.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- COGENT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED 2021-06-07 → present
- COGENT RE (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 2003-10-17 → 2021-06-07
- R. MEARS & CO. (HOLDINGS) LIMITED 1993-06-03 → 2003-10-17
- SIMPLEHOLD LIMITED 1990-08-07 → 1993-06-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,617,881 | £13,203,167 | |
| Operating profit | £273,875 | £1,924,403 | |
| Profit before tax | £877,016 | £2,100,745 | |
| Net profit | £521,746 | £1,951,614 | |
| Cash | £6,792,310 | £5,974,246 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,754,468 | £7,821,541 | |
| Net assets | £6,587,616 | £7,644,694 | |
| Equity | £6,587,616 | £7,644,694 | |
| Average employees | 37 | 44 | |
| Wages | £5,322,701 | £6,587,296 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.8% | 14.6% | |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 14.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.1% | 24.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 42.7% | 34.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.38x | 2.79x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company and the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and therefore they continue to adopt the going concern basis for accounting in the preparation of the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- COGENT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Cogent International Limited 100%
- Cogent Europe Cell 100%
Significant events
- “The year shows that the diversifation strategy is gaining traction. The 37% income growth demonstrates the successfull broadening of the Group's geographical spread and expansion into new specialist areas.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCKECHNIE, Duncan Alexander James | Secretary | 2004-03-31 | — | British |
| BISHOP, Mark John Alexander | Director | — | May 1959 | British |
| MCKECHNIE, Duncan Alexander James | Director | 2004-03-31 | May 1958 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARROW, Antony Andrew | Secretary | 2003-06-09 | 2004-03-31 |
| BARROW, Antony Andrew | Secretary | 1993-11-02 | 1998-12-16 |
| DEAN, Richard James | Secretary | 1998-12-16 | 2002-06-13 |
| GREENFIELD, Richard Adrian | Secretary | 2002-06-14 | 2003-06-09 |
| MAYHEW, Mairi Morrison | Secretary | — | 1993-11-02 |
| BARROW, Antony Andrew | Director | — | 2019-07-31 |
| BOWMAN, Jeffrey Thomas | Director | — | 2002-07-12 |
| BURNS, John Macgregor | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2001-01-26 |
| GREENFIELD, Richard Adrian | Director | 1998-12-16 | 2002-07-05 |
| JACOBS, Gaskell Edward | Director | 1994-01-28 | 1997-12-10 |
| MEARS, Richard | Director | — | 1997-03-26 |
| NAYLOR, Daniel James | Director | — | 1998-06-09 |
| PAGE, Alec Roylance | Director | — | 1997-09-30 |
| WEBSTER, Adrian Eugene | Director | 1997-03-14 | 2000-11-14 |
| WILSON, Thomas David | Director | 1992-05-29 | 1998-12-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Mark John Alexander Bishop | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 160 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-07-27 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-07-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-11-04 MA Memorandum articles
- 2021-11-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-24 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-26 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-19 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-27 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-07-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-25 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-04 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-11-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 6
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+37.3%
£9,617,881 £13,203,167
-
Cash
-12%
£6,792,310 £5,974,246
-
Net assets
+16%
£6,587,616 £7,644,694
-
Employees
+18.9%
37 44
-
Operating profit
+602.7%
£273,875 £1,924,403
-
Profit before tax
+139.5%
£877,016 £2,100,745
-
Wages
+23.8%
£5,322,701 £6,587,296
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