A.butler & Sons Limited
Registered name: A.BUTLER & SONS LIMITED
Part of Croma Security Solutions Group PLC groupA.butler & Sons Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £1.1m and 9 employees.
A.butler & Sons Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £1.1m and 9 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of locks and hinges” and is based in Fareham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Fareham, South East
- Age
- 109 yrs · since 1917
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The ultimate parent company is”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
A.butler & Sons Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 9
- Net assets
- £1.1m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▼10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £823k | £754k | £715k | £644k |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Fixed assets | £5.6k | £4.8k | £3.1k | £4.3k |
| Current assets | £1.5m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Debtors | £91.9k | £85.9k | £68.8k | £32.8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼9%
- Now £1.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £644k
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲38%
- Now £4.3k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Croma Security Solutions Group PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Croma Locksmiths & Security Solutions Limited75–100%
- A.butler & Sons Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (8)
- Access Locksmiths LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Centre Security LimitedFigures not disclosed
- City Locks LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Meridian Security Systems LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Safeguard (N/W) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Southern Stronghold LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stronghold Direct LtdFigures not disclosed
- T L S Security Systems LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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