ADOBE SYSTEMS EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last filed for 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-25 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£13M
-53% vs 2023
Net assets
£94M
-1.2% vs 2023
Employees
1,205
+3.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£24M
+4.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- ADOBE SYSTEMS EUROPE LIMITED 1994-11-15 → present
- ALDUS EUROPE LIMITED 1994-11-14 → 1994-11-15
- ALDUS (U.K.) LIMITED 1986-11-05 → 1987-10-12
- JACLARCH LIMITED 1986-09-29 → 1986-11-05
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £294,789,000 | £311,884,000 | |
| Operating profit | £22,157,000 | £23,393,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £23,047,000 | £24,156,000 | |
| Net profit | £18,542,000 | £13,770,000 | |
| Cash | £26,835,000 | £12,622,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £95,398,000 | £94,268,000 | |
| Net assets | £95,398,000 | £94,268,000 | |
| Equity | £95,398,000 | £94,268,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,161 | 1,205 | |
| Wages | £150,469,000 | £153,592,000 |
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 | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 7.5% | 7.5% | |
| Net margin | 6.3% | 4.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 23.2% | 24.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.77x | 2.46x | |
| Interest cover | — | 248.86x |
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 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the Company or to cease its operations, and as they have concluded that the Company's financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over its ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “There have been no material events subsequent to the year end which would require adjustment to, or disclosure in, the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BECK, Yulia Lebedeva | Director | 2023-05-31 | Jun 1980 | American |
| GRACE, Fiona | Director | 2021-01-19 | Aug 1973 | Irish |
| HOANG, Quang Vinh Dinh | Director | 2022-08-25 | Aug 1982 | American |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUDON, Alison Jane Bruce | Secretary | — | 1994-11-03 |
| DENTONS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2017-10-23 | 2018-06-21 |
| MACLAY MURRAY & SPENS LLP | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-11-03 | 2017-10-23 |
| BOYLE, Alasdair Cockburn Kerr | Director | 1993-11-01 | 1999-09-30 |
| BRAINERD, Paul | Director | — | 1992-04-17 |
| BULBECK, David | Director | 2000-06-12 | 2001-11-30 |
| CHIZEN, Bruce | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2002-10-21 |
| COCHEREL, Didier | Director | 1999-09-30 | 2000-07-24 |
| COVERT, Harold | Director | 1999-09-30 | 2000-03-06 |
| COWEN, Graham | Director | 1999-09-30 | 2000-06-12 |
| CSUBAK, Christine | Director | 2002-10-21 | 2007-05-21 |
| DAVOINE, Bruno Jean Pierre | Director | 1996-10-31 | 1999-09-30 |
| DEMO, Murray John | Director | 2000-03-06 | 2006-05-30 |
| FREEMAN, Graham | Director | 1999-09-30 | 2001-11-01 |
| GESCHKE, Charles Matthew | Director | 1994-10-01 | 1999-09-30 |
| GRAY, Derek James | Director | — | 1999-09-30 |
| GRAY OBE DL, Michael Maxwell, Dr | Director | — | 1991-06-27 |
| HANSON, Tracy Ann | Director | 2017-01-30 | 2019-01-09 |
| HART, Thomas John | Director | 1993-01-01 | 1994-09-30 |
| HERRES, Phillip Benjamin | Director | 1989-06-16 | 1989-07-03 |
| HIGGINS, Michael Andrew | Director | 2002-06-27 | 2005-12-16 |
| HILL, Barbara Ellen | Director | 2006-05-30 | 2008-10-22 |
| KEIM, Christian Andreas Helmut, Dr | Director | 2016-10-31 | 2021-01-19 |
| MUNRO, Mark Alistair | Director | 1995-05-03 | 1999-09-30 |
| NAKAO, Masami Bruce | Director | 1994-10-01 | 1996-08-03 |
| NEMETH JR, Joseph James | Director | 2007-05-21 | 2013-02-20 |
| PETERS, Christopher Leonard | Director | 1994-10-01 | 1995-01-31 |
| PFEIFFER, Lauren | Director | 2019-01-09 | 2023-05-31 |
| PRATT, David | Director | 1994-10-01 | 1997-11-30 |
| ROWLEY, Richard Thomas | Director | 2008-01-11 | 2017-01-30 |
| SAN FELIPE, Keith Byron | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2022-08-25 |
| SMITH, Sandy Kay | Director | 1993-02-16 | 1993-08-28 |
| SOLOMON, Michael | Director | — | 1989-06-16 |
| VAN BENEDEN, Pierre Jean Francois Marie | Director | 2003-06-26 | 2008-01-11 |
| VAN HERCK, Stephan | Director | 2008-10-22 | 2012-09-24 |
| WARNOCK, John | Director | 1994-10-01 | 2001-02-01 |
| ZABLAN, Mark | Director | 2013-01-08 | 2016-10-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 218 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-06 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-31 | 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 2024-11-30 vs 2023-11-30
-
Turnover
+5.8%
£294,789,000 £311,884,000
-
Cash
-53%
£26,835,000 £12,622,000
-
Net assets
-1.2%
£95,398,000 £94,268,000
-
Employees
+3.8%
1,161 1,205
-
Operating profit
+5.6%
£22,157,000 £23,393,000
-
Profit before tax
+4.8%
£23,047,000 £24,156,000
-
Wages
+2.1%
£150,469,000 £153,592,000
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