ELSTER WATER METERING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-15 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£45M
-7% vs 2023
Employees
69
-22.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
-435.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ELSTER WATER METERING LIMITED 2013-07-31 → present
- CROSSCO (1335) LIMITED 2013-07-25 → 2013-07-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £27,807,000 | £19,756,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,533,000 | £285,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£553,000 | -£2,962,000 | |
| Net profit | -£553,000 | -£2,962,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£38,760,000 | -£42,236,000 | |
| Net assets | -£42,106,000 | -£45,068,000 | |
| Equity | -£42,106,000 | -£45,068,000 | |
| Average employees | 89 | 69 | |
| Wages | £4,340,000 | £1,858,000 |
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 | 9.1% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | -2.0% | -15.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -6.5% | -0.7% | |
| Interest cover | 0.82x | 0.09x |
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 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources, including support from Honeywell International Inc. to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future being a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- ELSTER WATER METERING LIMITED · parent
- Elster Water Metering NV/SA
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAMBLIN, Matthew William | Director | 2022-07-12 | Mar 1967 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAWFORD, Jonathan Colin Fyfe | Secretary | 2013-07-25 | 2013-10-07 |
| WESTLEY, Adam David Christopher | Secretary | 2013-10-07 | 2015-12-22 |
| BARNES, Garry Elliot, Mr. | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-12-22 |
| BARROW, Mark | Director | 2018-09-30 | 2019-06-03 |
| CRAWFORD, Jonathon Colin Fyfe | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-12-22 |
| HOWARD, Lindsay | Director | 2015-12-18 | 2018-09-30 |
| KRESS, Koija | Director | 2015-12-18 | 2016-12-31 |
| LOWE, Garfield Joseph | Director | 2020-09-18 | 2022-01-01 |
| MELVILLE, Paul | Director | 2019-06-03 | 2020-04-24 |
| O'NEILL, James Grant | Director | 2022-01-01 | 2022-07-12 |
| VINCENT, Gary Mark | Director | 2013-11-04 | 2020-09-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elster Water Metering Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 52 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-09-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-05-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-29%
£27,807,000 £19,756,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-7%
-£42,106,000 -£45,068,000
-
Employees
-22.5%
89 69
-
Operating profit
-88.7%
£2,533,000 £285,000
-
Profit before tax
-435.6%
-£553,000 -£2,962,000
-
Wages
-57.2%
£4,340,000 £1,858,000
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