CONCEPT ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LTD
Company number 03401367 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Concept Engineering Consultants Ltd is a fundamentally healthy business with a 27-year track record, strong cash reserves of £947K, and net assets of £2.5M, but it is experiencing concerning margin compression with gross margins falling from 71% to 62% and EBITDA margins halving from 14% to 9%. The significant £2.2M dividend extraction has weakened the balance sheet, though the company retains adequate buffers. The primary prescription is urgent attention to margin recovery through pricing discipline and cost management, while maintaining capital reserves to weather ongoing sector headwinds.
Shareholders' funds
£2,495,245
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
What it does
test drilling and boring
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-07-10
- Employees
- 103 (2023 accounts · was 105 in 2022)
- Registered office
- 4 Oak Spinney Business Park Ratby Lane, Leicester Forest East, Leicester, England, LE3 3AW
- Postcode
- LE3 3AW
- Capital
- 2,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Audit Exemption Subsidiary
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-10
- Next due by
- 2027-07-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43130 Test drilling and boring
Officers 7 current · 13 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by CONSTRUCTION TESTING SOLUTIONS LIMITED — since 2022-08-05
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 5
£87,026,048 total awarded value where published.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2740247 (Tier 1), registered since 2011.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CONCEPT ENGINEERING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS LIMITED | 1998-02-03 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 3,113 similar companies in LE — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (103 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
The class of 1997
43%
of the 50,528 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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