Bureau Veritas UK Limited
Private Limited Company · Birmingham
ActiveUnited KingdomIncorporated 1983Private Limited Company
Financial position
Accounts to 2025-12-31 · GBP · Company accounts
Net assets
£50,870,000
Cash
£230,000
Turnover
£100,985,000
Profit / loss
£3,487,000
Current assets
£67,709,000
Creditors < 1 year
£19,313,000
Equity
£50,870,000
Average employees
809
Balance-sheet trend
GBP · companyFinancial statements
Selected figures from the best-ranked available filing for each period. Missing values remain unknown.
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| Reported figures | 2025-12-31Company · AI-read | 2024-12-31Company · AI-read |
|---|---|---|
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net assets | £50,870,000 | £52,667,000 |
| Equity | £50,870,000 | £52,667,000 |
| Share capital | £39,500,000 | £39,500,000 |
| Retained earnings | £4,804,000 | £6,601,000 |
| Assets | ||
| Fixed assets | £2,914,000 | £4,019,000 |
| Intangible assets | £1,517,000 | £2,128,000 |
| Property, plant & equipment | £1,397,000 | £1,891,000 |
| Current assets | £67,709,000 | £67,595,000 |
| Cash at bank | £230,000 | £425,000 |
| Debtors | £67,479,000 | £67,170,000 |
| Liabilities | ||
| Creditors within one year | £19,313,000 | £18,176,000 |
| Provisions | £360,000 | £335,000 |
| Pension scheme surplus / deficit | −£80,000 | −£436,000 |
| Net current assets | £48,396,000 | £49,419,000 |
| Assets less current liabilities | £51,310,000 | £53,438,000 |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Turnover | £100,985,000 | £97,624,000 |
| Cost of sales | £58,324,000 | £53,995,000 |
| Gross profit | £42,661,000 | £43,629,000 |
| Administrative expenses | £41,197,000 | £37,876,000 |
| Operating profit | £1,464,000 | £5,753,000 |
| Interest receivable | £1,964,000 | £1,783,000 |
| Interest payable | £19,000 | £43,000 |
| Profit before tax | £3,409,000 | £7,493,000 |
| Tax | −£78,000 | £1,683,000 |
| Profit / loss | £3,487,000 | £5,810,000 |
| Operating costs | ||
| Depreciation | £905,000 | £943,000 |
| Amortisation | £659,000 | £842,000 |
| Audit fees | £90,000 | £87,000 |
| People & pay | ||
| Average employees | 809 | 823 |
| Staff costs | £52,896,000 | £47,594,000 |
| Wages & salaries | £42,421,000 | £38,660,000 |
| Social security costs | £6,378,000 | £5,134,000 |
| Pension costs | £2,940,000 | £2,834,000 |
| Directors' remuneration | £872,000 | £594,000 |
| Highest paid director | £452,000,000 | £197,000,000 |
| Source evidence | View filing | View filing |
From the accounts
What the accounts for 2025-12-31 say about themselves, read by AI from the scanned filing.
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Clean (unmodified)
- Immediate parent
- Bureau Veritas UK Holdings Limited
- Ultimate parent
- Bureau Veritas SA
- Ultimate controlling party
- Wendel-Participations SE
- Accounts
- FRS 102
- Approved
- 2026-09-04, signed by A. Chanussot
Turnover by segment (6)
- UK: 92,962 (000s) (2025-12-31)
- UK: 96,307 (000s) (2024-12-31)
- Rest of Europe: 6,098 (000s) (2025-12-31)
- Rest of Europe: 946 (000s) (2024-12-31)
- Rest of World: 1,925 (000s) (2025-12-31)
- Rest of World: 371 (000s) (2024-12-31)
Share classes (1)
- 39,499,999 ordinary shares of £1 each
Events after the year end (1)
- On 2 February 2026, the Company undertook a reduction of share capital resulting in the repayment of £39,466,042 to its parent company, Bureau Veritas UK Holdings Limited. The transaction reduced total equity by the same amount.
Contingent liabilities (1)
- The company participates in a group banking arrangement with other members of the Bureau Veritas UK group. At 31 December 2025 the Company had no guaranteed bank borrowings of other Bureau Veritas UK group companies.
Secured borrowing
Registered charges, lenders and security interests.
Charges and related records
0 outstanding chargesShow 2 satisfied / released
Unknown · created 2011-09-01 · satisfied 2016-03-23
£208,303 DUE OR TO BECOME DUE FROM THE C OMPANY TO THE CHARGEE
SatisfiedUnknown · created 2008-10-15 · satisfied 2014-02-21
All monies
Satisfied