PANAVISION EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-09-30
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-07 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-21
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
624
-7.3% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£7M
-230.1% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-09-30.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PANAVISION EUROPE LIMITED 1991-10-31 → present
- HADENFAR LIMITED 1990-08-17 → 1991-10-31
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £128,141,000 | £92,589,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,465,000 | -£5,511,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,170,000 | -£6,726,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,167,000 | -£7,108,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | — | |
| Equity | — | — | |
| Average employees | 673 | 624 | |
| Wages | £24,352,000 | £22,485,000 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.3% | -6.0% | |
| Net margin | 2.5% | -7.7% | |
| Interest cover | 2.69x | -1.63x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on these assessments and resources available to the Group, including a letter of support from ultimate parent Company Panavision Inc., the Directors have concluded that there is no material uncertainty, and they can continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”
Group structure
- PANAVISION EUROPE LIMITED · parent
- John Barry Group Pty Ltd 100%
- Lee Filters Limited 100%
- Lee Lighting Limited 100%
- Joe Dunton Cameras Limited 100%
- Panavision Alga Techno Paris SA 100%
- Panalux SARL 100%
- Panavision Polska Sp. Z.o.o 100%
- Samuelson Group Limited 100%
- Panalux Lighting Namibia (Pty) Limited 100%
- Panavision SA (Pty) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Writers Guild of America (WGA) took strike action against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) from 2nd May 2023 to 27th September 2023.”
- “SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) also held a strike against the AMPTP from 14th July 2023 to 9th November 2023.”
- “On May 2, 2025, the Company entered into a Loan, Guaranty and Security Agreement among the Company, various subsidiaries as Guarantors, Great Rock as Agent, sole Book Manager, Syndication Agent and Sole Lead Arranger and Siena Lending Group LLC, as Documentation Agent (the "GRC ABL Agreement"), which provided for a $130 million facility. This facility replaces the ABL referenced in note 16.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PITSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2021-04-30 | — | — |
| BLISS, Terra Alina | Director | 2021-03-16 | Oct 1970 | American |
| KALSEY, Jasminder Singh | Director | 2016-03-07 | May 1974 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATTERTON, Karen | Secretary | 2006-03-30 | 2011-06-20 |
| GOSLAND, William Ferguson | Secretary | 2010-05-15 | 2018-01-25 |
| HURDLE, Nigel Edward | Secretary | — | 2010-05-15 |
| ALLEN, Jeffrey Thomas | Director | 1998-01-12 | 2020-09-30 |
| BOSTON, Derrick Osmond | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2016-12-31 |
| FARRAND, John Stuart | Director | 1997-09-03 | 2003-02-07 |
| FURSSEDONN, Mark Vincent | Director | 2018-07-31 | 2024-06-30 |
| GOSLAND, William Ferguson | Director | 2010-03-02 | 2016-03-07 |
| HURDLE, Nigel Edward | Director | — | 2010-05-15 |
| MARCKETTA, Jeffrey Joseph | Director | — | 1998-10-20 |
| NOONAN, Denis | Director | 2003-07-09 | 2005-03-03 |
| REYNOLDS, Robert John | Director | — | 1998-10-20 |
| SCOTT, William Clement | Director | 1993-03-04 | 2001-03-01 |
| SNYDER, Kimberly Ann | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2026-01-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen Andrew Feinberg | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-10-19 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 211 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-21 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2026-03-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-27 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-03-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-19 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2024-06-19 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2024-05-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-08 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2024-03-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-07 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
-27.7%
£128,141,000 £92,589,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
—
Not reported
-
Employees
-7.3%
673 624
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Operating profit
-200.8%
£5,465,000 -£5,511,000
-
Profit before tax
-230.1%
£5,170,000 -£6,726,000
-
Wages
-7.7%
£24,352,000 £22,485,000
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