GATEWAY CONTROL SYSTEMS LIMITED
Company number SC177224 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gateway Control Systems occupies a defensible niche in the UK industrial process control sector, demonstrating exceptional balance sheet growth over the past decade and a notably conservative capital structure with minimal leverage. The 2024 financial position—net assets of £626k and cash of £236k—represents a record high and provides meaningful resilience against the sector's inherent cyclicality. However, the business carries structural limitations typical of owner-managed micro-SMEs: key-person dependency, constrained scale for tier-one client engagements, and declining tangible assets that may signal under-investment in manufacturing capability. The company's vertical integration across design, manufacture, installation, and repair is a genuine competitive differentiator, though realising its full strategic value will likely require addressing succession planning and capital investment decisions in the medium term.
Shareholders' funds
£625,994
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of electrical engineering.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-07-14
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts · was 7 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Gateway House, Enzie, Buckie, Moray, AB56 5BL
- Postcode
- AB56 5BL
- Capital
- 1,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-24
- Next due by
- 2027-09-24
- Financial year end
- 24 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-28
- Next due by
- 2027-08-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 26512 Manufacture of electronic industrial process control equipment
- 33140 Repair of electrical equipment
- 43210 Electrical installation
- 71121 Engineering design activities for industrial process and production
Officers 3 current · 2 resigned
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1A CLUNY SQUARE, BUCKIE, MORAY AB56 1AH | 2001-07-23 |
| 1A CLUNY SQUARE, BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE AB56 1AH | 1997-08-15 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 43 similar companies in AB — measured against the wider sector, 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.
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