RWS UK HOLDING CO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-18 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-04
Watchouts
Cash
£375K
+5,921% vs 2023
Net assets
£140M
+7.7% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£11M
-48.9% 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
The Directors intend to liquidate the Company subsequent to the year end. Consequently, the Directors do not consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£121 | -£1,276,552 | |
| Profit before tax | £21,407,016 | £10,938,004 | |
| Net profit | £20,448,399 | £9,964,066 | |
| Cash | £6,231 | £375,170 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £130,227,593 | £140,191,659 | |
| Net assets | £130,227,593 | £140,191,659 | |
| Equity | £130,227,593 | £140,191,659 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | £0 | £0 |
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -0.0% | -0.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 9.5% | 5.5% | |
| Current ratio | 10.48x | 18.33x | |
| Interest cover | -0.00x | -3.41x |
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
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Directors intend to liquidate the Company subsequent to the year end. Consequently, the Directors do not consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- RWS UK HOLDING CO LIMITED · parent
- RWS Information US LLC 100%
- Corporate Translations Inc 100%
- RWS US Holding Co. Inc 100%
- RWS Life Sciences International SA 100%
- LUZ Inc 100%
- RWS Life Sciences Inc 100%
- Moravia US Holding Company Inc. 100%
- Moravia US Intermediate Holding Company LLC 100%
- Moravia IT, LLC 100%
- RWS Moravia India Private Limited 100%
- Webdunia Technologies Inc. 100%
Significant events
- “The Directors intend to proceed with liquidating the Company subsequent to the year end.”
- “Other than the intention to liquidate the Company subsequent to the year end, there have been no events since the reporting date that materially affect the position of the Company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALLINAN, Letitia | Director | 2026-01-30 | Mar 1990 | British |
| CREAU, Antoine Erwan | Director | 2024-05-22 | Oct 1977 | French |
| HALL, Gary Peter William | Director | 2024-05-22 | Nov 1973 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLASS, Desmond Kenneth | Secretary | 2017-11-06 | 2022-04-08 |
| LEWEY, Christopher Guy Desmond | Secretary | 2022-04-08 | 2022-11-09 |
| THOMPSON, Richard James | Secretary | 2015-10-05 | 2017-11-06 |
| BRODE, Andrew Stephen | Director | 2015-10-05 | 2023-08-10 |
| CROFT, Sophie Elisabeth | Director | 2024-05-22 | 2026-01-30 |
| DAVIES, Candida Jane | Director | 2022-12-20 | 2024-05-22 |
| DAY, Roderick | Director | 2022-04-08 | 2022-12-20 |
| EVERITT, Timothy Mark | Director | 2021-07-25 | 2022-02-14 |
| GLASS, Desmond Kenneth Neil | Director | 2017-11-06 | 2022-04-08 |
| JONES, William Henry | Director | 2022-02-14 | 2024-05-22 |
| OTTWAY, Reinhard Karl-Heinz | Director | 2015-10-05 | 2017-03-31 |
| THOMPSON, Richard James | Director | 2015-10-05 | 2021-07-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rws Holdings Plc | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2023-10-04 | Active |
| Rws Overseas Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-10-04 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 58 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-31 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-31 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-03-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-31 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
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Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+5,921%
£6,231 £375,170
-
Net assets
+7.7%
£130,227,593 £140,191,659
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-1,054,901.7%
-£121 -£1,276,552
-
Profit before tax
-48.9%
£21,407,016 £10,938,004
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