SMI GROUP LIMITED
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Executive summary
SMI Group Limited is a 25-year-old specialist defense conference producer with a defensible niche in military satellite communications, leveraging transatlantic leadership and deep institutional relationships within the UK-US defense procurement ecosystem. The company maintains financial stability with £1.38M in net assets and accumulated profitability, but faces a strategic inflection point: declining total assets, a 30% compression in net current assets year-over-year, and a £7.0M debtor book against only £660K in cash create liquidity risk that must be proactively managed. The growth imperative is clear—expand from episodic conferencing into a continuous knowledge platform with consulting advisory services and geographic diversification, or risk gradual erosion by better-capitalized competitors consolidating the defense events space.
Shareholders' funds
£1,375,210
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of the production and organisation of specialist conferences.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-05-24
- Employees
- 48 (2024 accounts · was 50 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Ground Floor, India House, Curlew Street, London, England, SE1 2ND
- Postcode
- SE1 2ND
- Capital
- 23,441 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-24
- Next due by
- 2027-06-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 64209 Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 19 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by SAE MEDIA GROUP LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 3
£27,251,680 total awarded value where published.
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Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SMI (GROUP) LIMITED | 2016-12-02 |
| SMI MILSATCOM LIMITED | 2015-01-13 |
| SMI GROUP LIMITED | 2014-10-24 |
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GROUND & FIRST FLOOR 1 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SE1 7XW, ENGLAND | 2018-12-07 |
| 2ND FLOOR SOUTH HARLING HOUSE 47 - 51 GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LONDON, SE1 0BS | 2016-07-20 |
| UNIT 122/124 30 GREAT GUILDFORD STREET, LONDON, SE1 0HS, ENGLAND | 2011-12-09 |
| GREAT GUILDFORD BUSINESS SQUARE, 30 GREAT GUILDFORD STREET, LONDON, SE1 0HS | 2011-03-17 |
| THE CLOVE BUILDING, MAGUIRE STREET, LONDON, SE1 2NQ | 2005-08-17 |
| 1 NEW CONCORDIA WHARF, MILL STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BB | 2003-11-26 |
| 12 GREAT JAMES STREET, LONDON, WC1N 3DR | 2000-04-27 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 776 similar companies in SE
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (48 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1999.
Competitors London
This company ranks 120 among activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified in London.
The class of 1999
57%
of the 316 companies in this sector incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2023-04-05
- Where
- Greater London
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TGL600279 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2023-04-05 | — |
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