Control Techniques Dynamics Limited
Registered name: CONTROL TECHNIQUES DYNAMICS LIMITED
Part of Nidec Europe Bv groupControl Techniques Dynamics Limited made £13.3m revenue and a £1m loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Control Techniques Dynamics Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £13.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £1m and 86 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers” and is based in Andover; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Andover, South West
- Age
- 63 yrs · since 1962
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.6m | £18.3m | £13.8m | £13.3m |
| Cost of sales | £11.8m | £13.3m | £10.8m | £10.1m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £5m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £102k | £116k | −£1.3m | −£1m |
| Profit before tax | £77.9k | £71.1k | −£1.3m | −£1m |
| Profit (best available) | £77.9k | £71.1k | −£1.3m | −£1m |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £4.8m | £4.1m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 120 | 105 | 86 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | 0.4% | −9.7% | −7.7% |
| Gross margin | 24.5% | 27.3% | 21.7% | 24.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £143k | £153k | £132k | £154k |
| Profit per employee | £715 | £593 | −£12.8k | −£11.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.1% | ▼24.3% | ▼4.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼8.7% | ▼1984% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.1% | ▼12.5% | ▼18.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £2.5m | £3.2m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £11.9m | £12.2m | £11.2m | £10.5m |
| Debtors | — | £928k | £770k | £760k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −7.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £154k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£11.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.7%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
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
- ▼6%
- Now £10.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼40%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼18%
- Now 86
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Nidec Europe Bv (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Nidec Control Techniques Limited75–100%
- Control Techniques Dynamics Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Drivesshop LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nidec Industrial Automation UK 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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