SOPHEON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-17
Watchouts
Cash
23,167,000
+9.7% vs 2022
Net assets
32,657,000
+3.7% vs 2022
Employees
174
+1.2% vs 2022
Profit before tax
896,000
-33.6% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- SOPHEON LIMITED 2024-03-12 → present
- SOPHEON PLC 1999-11-24 → 2024-03-12
- POLYDOC PLC. 1996-06-27 → 1999-11-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £36,787,000 | £35,004,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,332,000 | £463,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,349,000 | £896,000 | |
| Net profit | -£1,277,000 | £186,000 | |
| Cash | £21,121,000 | £23,167,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £32,247,000 | £32,841,000 | |
| Net assets | £31,505,000 | £32,657,000 | |
| Equity | £31,505,000 | £32,657,000 | |
| Average employees | 172 | 174 | |
| Wages | £21,718,000 | £20,225,000 |
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 | 3.6% | 1.3% | |
| Net margin | -3.5% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.1% | 1.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 44.4% | 42.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.64x | 1.60x | |
| Interest cover | 21.48x | 5.20x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors confirm that they have a reasonable expectation that the group will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence and settle liabilities as they fall due for the next 12 months from approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, these financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, with no material uncertainty over going concern.”
Group structure
- SOPHEON LIMITED · parent
- Sopheon Corporation 100%
- Sopheon Corporation 100%
- Alignent Software, Inc. 100%
- Sopheon NV 100%
- Sopheon UK Limited 100%
- Sopheon GmbH 100%
- Sopheon Asia Pacific PTY Ltd 100%
- Applied Network Technology Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 22 December 2023, the boards of Sopheon plc and IOps Buyer Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wellspring Worldwide Inc., which is a portfolio company of funds managed and/or advised by Resurgens Technology Partners, announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all cash offer pursuant to which IOps Buyer Inc. would acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Sopheon plc.”
- “The transaction was effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement under part 26 of the Companies Act 2006. The scheme of Arrangement became unconditional on 21 February 2024, following which the listing of Sopheon shares on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange was cancelled and Sopheon subsequently re-registered as a private limited company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARPENTER, Daniel | Director | 2024-02-20 | Sep 1988 | American |
| LINDEMAN, Scott | Director | 2025-07-09 | Dec 1964 | American |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARIMJEE, Arif | Secretary | 2000-09-18 | 2024-08-21 |
| WIEBENGA, Eelco Roel Evers Iljitsj | Secretary | 1996-06-27 | 2000-09-18 |
| LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-06-27 | 1996-06-27 |
| AL, Bernardus Petrus Franciscus | Director | 2001-01-08 | 2016-01-01 |
| BROOKE, Michael John | Director | 1999-11-24 | 2001-01-08 |
| COLTOF, Hans | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2000-09-18 |
| COTICCHIA, Gregory Michael | Director | 2021-03-31 | 2024-02-29 |
| DAVIS, Andrew Broughton | Director | 2001-11-15 | 2006-06-30 |
| DOWNS, Sean | Director | 2024-02-20 | 2024-10-02 |
| FILIPOVIC, Adnan | Director | 2024-02-20 | 2024-10-02 |
| GEEST, David Cornelis | Director | 1997-05-15 | 1998-12-31 |
| KARIMJEE, Arif | Director | 2000-02-02 | 2024-02-20 |
| KENT, Barnaby Luke | Director | 2023-02-03 | 2024-02-20 |
| MACFARLANE, James Malcolm | Director | 1999-11-24 | 2000-09-18 |
| MADDOCKS, Richard Vincent | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2000-09-18 |
| MENCE, Barry Keith | Director | 1996-06-27 | 2024-02-20 |
| METZGER, Daniel | Director | 2002-09-30 | 2024-02-20 |
| MICHUDA, Andrew Lloyd | Director | 2000-09-18 | 2024-02-20 |
| RUTTEN, Hubert Joseph Marie | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2000-09-18 |
| SHUSTER, Joseph M | Director | 2000-09-18 | 2002-09-30 |
| SILCOCK, Stuart Andrew | Director | 1996-06-27 | 2024-02-20 |
| STURGIS JR., William Alfred | Director | 2024-02-20 | 2024-10-02 |
| WIEBENGA, Eelco Roel Evers Iljitsj | Director | 1996-08-19 | 2000-02-02 |
| LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-06-27 | 1996-06-27 |
| LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-06-27 | 1996-06-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr William Alfred Sturgis Jr. | Individual | Voting 50–75% | 2024-02-20 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 310 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-07-25 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-07-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-12 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2024-03-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-12 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-03-03 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-07-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-07-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-20 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-20 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2024-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-12 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2024-03-12 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2024-03-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-12 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company | |
| 2024-03-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
-4.8%
£36,787,000 £35,004,000
-
Cash
+9.7%
£21,121,000 £23,167,000
-
Net assets
+3.7%
£31,505,000 £32,657,000
-
Employees
+1.2%
172 174
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Operating profit
-65.2%
£1,332,000 £463,000
-
Profit before tax
-33.6%
£1,349,000 £896,000
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Wages
-6.9%
£21,718,000 £20,225,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers