K-TEC MICROSCOPE SERVICES LTD
Company number 08249156 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
K-Tec Microscope Services Ltd is a highly profitable, cash-rich niche specialist that has demonstrated exceptional financial discipline and consistent value creation over a decade, growing net assets from £27,000 to over £300,000 with only three employees. However, the business faces a strategic inflection point: its extraordinary cash reserves (representing 99.8% of assets) signal under-investment in growth capabilities, while total key-person dependency creates existential risk without visible succession planning. The path forward requires converting financial strength into strategic capability—through targeted hiring, geographic expansion, and service line diversification—before competitive dynamics and market evolution erode the defensible position the Champion family has built.
Shareholders' funds
£286,163
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-10-11
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts · was 3 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Business & Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2DX
- Postcode
- SG1 2DX
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-11
- Next due by
- 2026-10-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 74909 Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current
Public contracts won 1
£48,944 total awarded value where published.
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Contact details
- Website
- http://www.k-tec.gb.com
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 102 HOLLY LEYS, STEVENAGE, SG2 8HY, ENGLAND | 2013-08-30 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 417 similar companies in SG
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (4 staff).
Trading since 2012.
Competitors Stevenage
This company ranks 37 among other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified in Stevenage.
The class of 2012
26%
of the 8,880 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 71% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.