DETERTECH UK LIMITED
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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
- DETERTECH UK LIMITED 2022-09-29 → present
- SMARTWATER GROUP LIMITED 2020-06-23 → 2022-09-29
- SMARTWATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 2016-03-13 → 2020-06-23
- R.L.S. WOLVES ALARM LIMITED 2016-02-20 → 2016-03-13
- SMARTWATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 2003-04-04 → 2016-02-20
- SMARTWATER EUROPE LIMITED 1997-02-28 → 2003-04-04
- PROBE FX (U.K.) LIMITED 1994-01-14 → 1997-02-28
- HEATLOAN PROJECTS LIMITED 1993-11-26 → 1994-01-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 196 | 208 | |
| 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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 33.0% | 26.8% | |
| Net margin | 31.8% | 27.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.9% | 14.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53x | 1.64x | |
| Interest cover | 530.71x | 448.00x |
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
- DETERTECH UK LIMITED · parent
- DeterTech Ireland Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Exceptional and non-recurring costs of £4,384,000 net of profits on disposal have arisen in the year ended 31 May 2025 (2024 £1,218,000) primarily in respect of the impairment charges from writing off development and asset costs where the group elected to focus solely on specific projects and software that best deliver improved security services, integration related costs and restructuring of the businesses including the changes in the senior management team following the creation of a new larger security services group and set up of new operations in Europe. Profits on disposal arose on transfer of assets to European subsidiaries”
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 | |
| 2025-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-23 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-23 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-29 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-10-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 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
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
-0.9%
£33,746,000 £33,434,000
-
Cash
+2%
£2,736,000 £2,791,000
-
Net assets
+18.1%
£50,042,000 £59,108,000
-
Employees
+6.1%
196 208
-
Operating profit
-19.6%
£11,145,000 £8,960,000
-
Profit before tax
-19.8%
£11,228,000 £9,006,000
-
Wages
+3.6%
£9,628,000 £9,979,000
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