ESSELCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-25 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£163K
-76.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
-64.7% vs 2023
Employees
9
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£25M
-136.2% 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 | £14,696,000 | £14,211,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,426,000 | -£21,377,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£10,754,000 | -£25,400,000 | |
| Net profit | -£10,971,000 | -£18,936,000 | |
| Cash | £698,000 | £163,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £122,641,000 | £97,511,000 | |
| Net assets | £29,327,000 | £10,353,000 | |
| Equity | £29,327,000 | £10,353,000 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 9 | |
| Wages | £2,016,000 | £1,627,000 |
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 | -43.7% | -150.4% | |
| Net margin | -74.7% | -133.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -5.2% | -21.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 83.6% | 93.3% | |
| Current ratio | -0.11x | -0.10x | |
| Interest cover | -1.23x | -5.22x |
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
- Harris & Trotter LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- ESSELCO LIMITED · parent
- Esselco Group Limited 1%
- Esselco Estates Limited 1%
- Esselco Services LLP 0.99%
Significant events
- “During the year, the group generated revenue of £14,211k, a slight decrease of £485k in comparison to the prior year. This lower revenue coupled with a reduction in the valuation of the properties resulted in a loss from operations of £21,377k compared to a loss from operations of £6,426k in 2023.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOUSKOUNDI, Christodoulos | Secretary | 2017-05-12 | — | — |
| DORFMAN, Lloyd Marshall, Sir | Director | 2017-05-12 | Aug 1952 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Anne Dorfman | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2017-06-27 | Active |
| Mr Michael Robert Steinfeld | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2017-05-31 | Active |
| Lloyd Marshall Dorfman | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2017-05-12 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 38 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-09 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address | |
| 2024-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-23 | RP04PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-22 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2022-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-23 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2022-03-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-01-14 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2021-12-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2021-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-09-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
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
-3.3%
£14,696,000 £14,211,000
-
Cash
-76.6%
£698,000 £163,000
-
Net assets
-64.7%
£29,327,000 £10,353,000
-
Employees
0%
9 9
-
Operating profit
-232.7%
-£6,426,000 -£21,377,000
-
Profit before tax
-136.2%
-£10,754,000 -£25,400,000
-
Wages
-19.3%
£2,016,000 £1,627,000
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