PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-26 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-12
Watchouts
Cash
£404K
-49.4% vs 2023
Net assets
-£87M
-5.6% vs 2023
Employees
111
-3.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£5M
+41.6% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
However, as the long-term production and sales plan is based on various assumptions and the availability of financing of costs involved is not 100% guaranteed, management's ability to meet its forecasts is therefore uncertain. This indicates the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast doubt over the Group's ability to continue as a going concern.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITED 2009-04-14 → present
- ELECTRIC MOTOR WORKS LIMITED 2008-11-12 → 2009-04-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,900,112 | £8,057,171 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,655,624 | -£5,396,547 | |
| Profit before tax | -£8,008,521 | -£4,679,528 | |
| Net profit | -£7,744,991 | -£4,576,325 | |
| Cash | £797,373 | £403,526 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£81,884,476 | -£86,523,461 | |
| Net assets | -£82,373,271 | -£86,970,411 | |
| Equity | -£82,373,271 | -£86,970,411 | |
| Average employees | 115 | 111 | |
| Wages | £6,108,610 | £5,807,420 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -170.7% | -67.0% | |
| Net margin | -198.6% | -56.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.1% | 6.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1027.3% | 1378.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.06x | 0.04x | |
| Interest cover | -12.57x | -10.12x |
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
- UHY Hacker Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“However, as the long-term production and sales plan is based on various assumptions and the availability of financing of costs involved is not 100% guaranteed, management's ability to meet its forecasts is therefore uncertain. This indicates the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast doubt over the Group's ability to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITED · parent
- Protean Electric (Tianjin) Co. Ltd 100%
- Wuxi Electric-Drive Technology Co. Ltd 20%
Significant events
- “The loan owing to QED Group Limited has been written off during the year since it is no longer payable following the dissolution of QED on 24 December 2024. The brought forward loan, together with interest arising in the period up to the dissolution, is included as a credit to income in the Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITEHEAD, Andrew John Graham | Secretary | 2024-02-29 | — | — |
| FUJIOKA, Keisuke | Director | 2026-03-02 | Aug 1972 | Japanese |
| HIROSE, Yuzuru | Director | 2026-03-02 | Feb 1972 | Japanese |
| HONJO, Hisashi | Director | 2026-03-02 | Aug 1963 | Japanese |
| KAWAHARA, Yuki | Director | 2026-03-02 | Mar 1974 | Japanese |
| KUME, Kohsuke | Director | 2026-03-02 | Oct 1979 | Japanese |
| TOYOHARA, Hiroshi | Director | 2026-03-02 | Aug 1962 | Japanese |
| WHITEHEAD, Andrew John Graham | Director | 2016-04-26 | Nov 1978 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRUMMOND, Andrew Robert | Secretary | 2022-05-05 | 2023-08-22 |
| NICHOLSON, Ian John | Secretary | 2023-08-22 | 2024-02-29 |
| RICH, Nicholas Simon James | Secretary | 2009-05-13 | 2022-05-05 |
| AHMED, Iftikar Ali | Director | 2008-11-12 | 2009-05-13 |
| BOYNER, Osman Feyzi | Director | 2022-11-03 | 2026-03-02 |
| DRUMMOND, Andrew Robert | Director | 2022-05-05 | 2023-10-24 |
| MEYER, Jonathan Richard | Director | 2009-05-13 | 2011-11-21 |
| NICHOLSON, Ian John | Director | 2023-08-10 | 2024-02-29 |
| PURCELL JR, Robert Carl | Director | 2013-01-30 | 2013-10-04 |
| RICH, Nicholas Simon James | Director | 2009-05-13 | 2022-05-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exedy Corporation | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2026-03-02 | Active |
| Bd Auto And Energy Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-10-20 | Ceased 2026-03-02 |
| Mr Ka Yan Hui | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-06-03 | Ceased 2021-10-20 |
| Mr Kai Johan Jiang | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-06-03 | Ceased 2020-08-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 130 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-03-13 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-19 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-03-13 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-03-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-05 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-12 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 17
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 6
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+106.6%
£3,900,112 £8,057,171
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Cash
-49.4%
£797,373 £403,526
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Net assets
-5.6%
-£82,373,271 -£86,970,411
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Employees
-3.5%
115 111
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Operating profit
+18.9%
-£6,655,624 -£5,396,547
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Profit before tax
+41.6%
-£8,008,521 -£4,679,528
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Wages
-4.9%
£6,108,610 £5,807,420
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