CLEAR CUT PICTURES LIMITED
Company number 02828689 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Clear Cut Pictures Limited, a 30-year established mid-tier UK post-production facility, is experiencing a significant and deteriorating financial trajectory that reflects both sector-wide headwinds and company-specific challenges. Two consecutive years of operating losses (£175K in FY2024, deepening to £365K in FY2025), a 47% erosion of net assets over three years, and a 33% decline in cash reserves position the business well below sector profitability benchmarks. While the streaming market correction and post-strike content pipeline disruption affect the entire sector, Clear Cut's revenue per employee of £71K versus the £85K-£120K sector norm suggests structural underutilisation, and the concentrated ownership under a single director-owner introduces governance and continuity risks that may constrain strategic options for recovery.
Shareholders' funds
£1,043,357
Balance sheet as at 2026-06-30
What it does
post production facilities.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1993-06-21
- Employees
- 53 (2026 accounts · was 58 in 2025)
- Registered office
- 44-48 Bloomsbury Street, London, England, WC1B 3QJ
- Postcode
- WC1B 3QJ
- Capital
- 25,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-06-30
- Next due by
- 2028-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-21
- Next due by
- 2027-07-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 59120 Motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities
Officers 1 current · 10 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
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FLEMING RESOURCES LIMITED Dissolved
-
STATION POST LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- clearcutpictures.com
Previous registered addresses 9
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| C/O LEIGH PHILIP & PARTNERS, 2ND FLOOR DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, 1 DEVONSHIRE STREET, LONDON, W1W 5DS | 2017-07-27 |
| 1-6 CLAY STREET, LONDON, W1U 6DA | 2012-12-10 |
| 1-6 CLAY STREET, LONDON, W1U 6DA | 2001-10-26 |
| 1-6 CLAY STREET, LONDON, W1H 3FS | 1999-06-14 |
| 1ST FLOOR, 4 HENRIETTA STREET, LONDON, WC2E 8PS | 1999-05-12 |
| 2 BOW STREET, LONDON, WC2E 7BA | 1995-10-18 |
| 37 WARREN STREET, LONDON, W1P 5PD | 1995-08-16 |
| 35 WARREN STREET, LONDON., W1P 5PD | 1994-08-25 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1993-08-02 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 104 similar companies in WC
2nd largest employer among its local peers (53 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1993.
Competitors London
This company ranks 3 among motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities in London.
The class of 1993
49%
of the 25,070 companies incorporated in 1993 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.