K-TEC MICROSCOPE SERVICES LTD

Company number 08249156 ·

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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.

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Shareholders' funds

£286,163

Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31

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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
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 74909 Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 3 current

Appointed 2020-07-28
MRS LISA CHAMPION Secretary
Appointed 2013-09-01
Appointed 2012-10-11

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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

AddressChanged on
102 HOLLY LEYS, STEVENAGE, SG2 8HY, ENGLAND2013-08-30

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.

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Competitors Stevenage

This company ranks 37 among other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified in Stevenage.

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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.

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