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Next accounts due

2027-02-28 (in 9mo)

Last filed for 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-12-03 (in 7mo)

Last made up 2025-11-19

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£3M

+2% vs 2024

Net assets

£59M

+18.1% vs 2024

Employees

208

+6.1% vs 2024

Profit before tax

£9M

-19.8% vs 2024

Name history

Renamed 7 times since incorporation

  1. DETERTECH UK LIMITED 2022-09-29 → present
  2. SMARTWATER GROUP LIMITED 2020-06-23 → 2022-09-29
  3. SMARTWATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 2016-03-13 → 2020-06-23
  4. R.L.S. WOLVES ALARM LIMITED 2016-02-20 → 2016-03-13
  5. SMARTWATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 2003-04-04 → 2016-02-20
  6. SMARTWATER EUROPE LIMITED 1997-02-28 → 2003-04-04
  7. PROBE FX (U.K.) LIMITED 1994-01-14 → 1997-02-28
  8. HEATLOAN PROJECTS LIMITED 1993-11-26 → 1994-01-14

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31

Metric Trend 2024-05-312025-05-31
Turnover £33,746,000£33,434,000
Operating profit £11,145,000£8,960,000
Profit before tax £11,228,000£9,006,000
Net profit £10,736,000£9,066,000
Cash £2,736,000£2,791,000
Total assets less current liabilities £50,953,000£60,326,000
Net assets £50,042,000£59,108,000
Equity £50,042,000£59,108,000
Average employees 196208
Wages £9,628,000£9,979,000

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 2024-05-312025-05-31
Operating margin 33.0%26.8%
Net margin 31.8%27.1%
Return on capital employed 21.9%14.9%
Current ratio 1.53x1.64x
Interest cover 530.71x448.00x

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
BDO LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“After making enquiries, the Directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future Accordingly, the going concern basis continues to be adopted in these financial statements”

Group structure

  1. DETERTECH UK LIMITED · parent
    1. DeterTech Ireland Limited 100% · Republic of Ireland · provider of security solutions services

Significant events

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

People

2 active · 22 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
DEVANI, Suketu Kishor Director 2022-05-17 Jul 1969 British,
KENNEDY, Michael Patrick Director 2023-10-30 Mar 1979 Irish
Show 22 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
CLEARY, Michael Secretary 1994-07-22 2011-10-01
MATTINSON, Florian Nikolai Secretary 2011-10-01 2021-12-31
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 1993-11-26 1993-12-10
BATCHELOR, Peter Readwin Michael Director 1995-04-01 2005-03-15
CLEARY, Georgina Director 1993-12-10 1994-07-22
CLEARY, Michael Director 2020-10-01 2021-03-02
CLEARY, Michael Director 1994-07-22 2016-02-25
CLEARY, Philip Director 2020-10-01 2021-12-31
CLEARY, Philip Director 1993-12-10 2016-04-01
HARRIS, Richard Director 2022-03-12 2023-11-20
HAWKER, Michael James Director 2001-05-30 2021-03-02
KIRBY, Christopher Robert Director 1997-01-24 1997-08-31
LARNER, James David Director 2020-05-01 2022-10-31
LOFTHOUSE, Adam Robert Director 1995-04-01 2004-12-07
MATTINSON, Florian Nikolai Edward Director 2011-10-01 2021-12-31
MATTINSON, Florian Nikolai Edward Director 2011-07-05 2011-09-30
MCGRIGOR, Kenneth Muir Director 2019-11-25 2021-03-02
MCGRIGOR, Kenneth Muir Director 2008-11-27 2016-03-29
PATHAK, Ashvin Rao Director 2005-03-15 2007-03-29
POOLE, Nicholas Sandford Director 2005-09-13 2008-09-24
STATON, Luke Manley Director 2024-01-17 2025-05-22
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED Corporate Nominee Director 1993-11-26 1993-12-10

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Detertech Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% 2017-12-01 Active
Mr Kenneth Muir Mcgrigor Individual Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2017-12-01

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 181 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2022-09-29 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
  • 2022-09-29 CONNOT Change of name notice
Date Type Category Description
2026-01-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-11-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2025-08-08 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-02-11 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-11-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-02-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-01-18 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-12-11 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-11-20 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2023-11-01 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-10-23 PSC05 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2023-10-23 PSC05 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2023-10-23 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2023-09-29 AD01 address Change registered office address company with date old address new address PDF
2023-02-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-12-13 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2022-10-31 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-09-29 CERTNM change-of-name Certificate change of name company
2022-09-29 CONNOT change-of-name Change of name notice
2022-07-21 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type small

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
3

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
1

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 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31

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

Official Companies House page