SPERRY RAIL EUROPE HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-02 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+1.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£13M
+22.6% vs 2023
Employees
141
+13.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£7M
+23.1% vs 2023
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 | £24,065,000 | £25,353,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,035,000 | £7,388,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,003,000 | £7,388,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,032,000 | £5,320,000 | |
| Cash | £6,360,000 | £6,433,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,040,000 | £13,494,000 | |
| Net assets | £11,009,000 | £13,494,000 | |
| Equity | £11,009,000 | £13,494,000 | |
| Average employees | 124 | 141 | |
| Wages | £7,033,000 | £7,974,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 25.1% | 29.1% | |
| Net margin | 20.9% | 21.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 54.7% | 54.8% | |
| Current ratio | 3.11x | 2.83x | |
| Interest cover | 188.59x | — |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The group meets its day to day working capital requirements through its bank deposits. The group's forecasts and projections, taking into account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the group should be able to operate within the level of its current facilities. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The group therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- SPERRY RAIL EUROPE HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Sperry Rail (International) Limited 100%
- Sperry Europe GmbH 100%
- Sperry Rail Australia PTY Ltd 100%
- Sperry Rail Technology Services Private Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Significant investment is being undertaken by the group in order to keep pace with technological changes within our industry. The group has a department dedicated to continual development of products and software applications aimed at advancing Rail Health. In addition to this significant investment has been made, and continues to be made, in providing future Al solutions.”
- “A new license agreement was entered into as of 1st January 2024 between Sperry Rail Service Inc and Sperry Rail (International) Ltd for the use of the Intellectual Property Rights including patents and trademarks.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KARSCHNIA, Robert J | Director | 2025-05-07 | Jun 1963 | American |
| SOUTHGATE, Rachael Sarah | Director | 2025-05-07 | Mar 1987 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOZEK, Adam Scott | Secretary | 2012-01-01 | 2014-10-13 |
| GERSTEN, Robin | Secretary | 2014-10-13 | 2018-08-01 |
| STROUD, Justin James Robert | Secretary | 2018-08-01 | 2022-08-01 |
| MWLAW SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2011-10-19 | 2013-01-07 |
| ALESIO, Todd Anthony | Director | 2024-02-08 | 2025-01-01 |
| LOCKWOOD, John Peter | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2014-10-13 |
| O'ROURKE, James Kelly | Director | 2014-10-13 | 2025-05-07 |
| SANKAR, Srikanth | Director | 2022-11-04 | 2024-01-20 |
| SCANNELL, Peter Owen | Director | 2011-10-19 | 2016-05-31 |
| STROUD, Justin James Robert | Director | 2016-05-31 | 2022-08-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sperry Rail Service Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 61 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-05 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-11-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
-
Turnover
+5.4%
£24,065,000 £25,353,000
-
Cash
+1.1%
£6,360,000 £6,433,000
-
Net assets
+22.6%
£11,009,000 £13,494,000
-
Employees
+13.7%
124 141
-
Operating profit
+22.4%
£6,035,000 £7,388,000
-
Profit before tax
+23.1%
£6,003,000 £7,388,000
-
Wages
+13.4%
£7,033,000 £7,974,000
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