PRP OPTOELECTRONICS LIMITED
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Executive summary
PRP Optoelectronics demonstrates exceptional financial performance relative to UK electronic component manufacturing sector benchmarks, with net asset growth of approximately 15% CAGR over the past decade, an implied ROE of ~25%, and a cash position representing nearly 50% of total assets. The company's niche positioning in custom high-performance LED light engines for military and commercial applications creates defensible competitive advantages through technical differentiation and defence qualification barriers, while benefiting from favourable sector tailwinds including increased UK defence spending and sovereign manufacturing imperatives. The primary strategic considerations centre on scale limitations relative to larger competitors and the need for continued R&D investment to maintain technological differentiation in an evolving optoelectronics landscape.
Shareholders' funds
£3,813,674
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the design, development, manufacture and sale of custom high performance LED light engines for the commercial and military markets.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1989-05-15
- Employees
- 33 (2025 accounts · was 31 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Beacon House, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, CB4 1TF
- Postcode
- CB4 1TF
- Capital
- 218,888 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2028-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-28
- Next due by
- 2026-12-12
Nature of business (SIC)
- 26110 Manufacture of electronic components
Officers 4 current · 18 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA684221 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| WALLSOLE LIMITED | 1989-09-06 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 2 WESTERNGATE HILLMEAD DRIVE, SWINDON, SN5 5QJ, ENGLAND | 2014-11-19 |
| 2 WESTERN GATE, HILLMEAD ENTERPRISE PARK, LANGLEY ROAD, SWINDON, ENGLAND | 2014-11-19 |
| UNIT 2 WESTERNGATE IND ESTATE, LANGLEY ROAD, SWINDON, SN5 5WN, ENGLAND | 2014-09-11 |
| WOOD BURCOTE WAY, TOWCESTER, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN12 6TF | 2014-08-28 |
| 7 SPENCER PARADE, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 5AB | 1990-12-10 |
| 2 BACHES ST, LONDON, N1 6UB | 1989-08-21 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 41 similar companies in CB
2nd largest employer among its local peers (33 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1989.
No.6 of the largest manufacture of electronic components companies in Cambridge →
Competitors Cambridge
This company ranks 6 among manufacture of electronic components in Cambridge.
The class of 1989
50%
of the 21,096 companies incorporated in 1989 are still active today; 44% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2020-02-28
- Where
- Swindon (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WT451382 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2020-02-28 | — |
| WT451383 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2020-02-28 | — |
| WT318249 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2014-07-31 | — |
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