SERVICES MACHINERY & TRUCKS LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-29 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
-33% vs 2023
Net assets
£49M
+8.2% vs 2023
Employees
508
+1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
-67.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £369,587,000 | £287,797,000 | |
| Operating profit | £17,018,000 | £8,157,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £12,344,000 | £4,019,000 | |
| Net profit | £9,641,000 | £3,715,000 | |
| Cash | £1,742,000 | £1,168,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £103,649,000 | £100,458,000 | |
| Net assets | £45,404,000 | £49,119,000 | |
| Equity | £45,404,000 | £49,119,000 | |
| Average employees | 503 | 508 | |
| Wages | £25,486,000 | £25,383,000 |
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 | 4.6% | 2.8% | |
| Net margin | 2.6% | 1.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 16.4% | 8.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 67.9% | 71.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.18x | 0.83x | |
| Interest cover | 3.64x | 1.86x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors of the business have reviewed the Company's detailed forecast cash flows for the forthcoming 12 months from the date of the approval of the financial statements. These cash flow forecasts and re-forecasts are prepared regularly as part of the business planning process. These have been subjected to stress testing, scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis, which the directors consider sufficiently robust. In each scenario, the Company continues to have sufficient cash available to meet its working capital requirements via inventory floorplan financing and revolving credit facility. SMT Holding SA have provided a loan facility to support the Company with acquisitions that they will not call upon for 12 months from date of signing. The Company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- SERVICES MACHINERY & TRUCKS LTD · parent
- Agg Pro Ltd 100%
- Didcot Property (SMT) Ltd 100%
- Reginald Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “In 2024, Dynapac Road Equipment selected the company as its exclusive dealer for its road machinery product line-up in Great Britain.”
- “The company acquired the AggPro Ltd Group in 2024. AggPro Ltd is a specialist in the supply and support of crushing, screening, washing and recycling equipment across the UK.”
- “Further borrowing facilities have been set up since 31st December 2024 as per note 25 Post Balance-sheet events.”
- “On 26th October 2024, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Agg Pro Ltd, for a total consideration of £10,166,667.”
- “On 30th October 2024, the Company acquired 100% of the shares of Didcot Property (SMT) Ltd, for a total consideration of £1,764,766.”
- “The Company set up Reginald Ltd on 22nd October 2024, with 100% of shareholding, value £1.”
- “On 27th March 2025, the Company signed a non-recourse factoring agreement with Societe Generale.”
- “On 29th April 2025, the Company signed an Inventory funding agreement with Volvo Financial Services to extend across parts.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Nicholas John | Director | 2017-08-31 | Nov 1966 | British |
| HUMPHREY, Paul David | Director | 2017-08-31 | Sep 1979 | British |
| EERO | Corporate Director | 2021-11-06 | — | — |
| ODJA | Corporate Director | 2019-02-07 | — | — |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARIOZ, Jerome Francois Henri | Director | 2017-06-16 | 2021-11-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hera Fp | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2022-12-29 | Ceased 2023-09-18 |
| Mr Georges-Albert Dal | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2022-12-29 | Active |
| Mr Matthieu Bocquet | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2022-12-29 | Active |
| Mr Patrick De Wolf | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2022-12-22 | Active |
| Mr Philippe Charles De Moerloose | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2017-06-16 | Ceased 2022-12-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-02 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2025-05-02 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2024-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-27 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-27 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-27 | CH02 | officers | Change corporate director company with change date | |
| 2023-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-18 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-07-04 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
-22.1%
£369,587,000 £287,797,000
-
Cash
-33%
£1,742,000 £1,168,000
-
Net assets
+8.2%
£45,404,000 £49,119,000
-
Employees
+1%
503 508
-
Operating profit
-52.1%
£17,018,000 £8,157,000
-
Profit before tax
-67.4%
£12,344,000 £4,019,000
-
Wages
-0.4%
£25,486,000 £25,383,000
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