John Smith & Son Group Limited
Registered name: JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED
Part of Cubit Group Limited groupJohn Smith & Son Group Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of -£594k and 43 employees.
John Smith & Son Group 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 −£594k and 43 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Edinburgh; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Age
- 118 yrs · since 1908
- 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: “JS Aspire Group Holdings Ltd”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
John Smith & Son Group 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
- 43
- Net assets
- −£594k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 1 Jun 2025 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 44 | 43 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £5.1m |
| Net assets | £572k | −£594k |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Current assets | £7.5m | £10.8m |
| Debtors | £715k | £2m |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Sep 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
- —
- Now −£594k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £5.1m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £2.1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cubit Group Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- JS Aspire Group Holdings Ltd75–100%
- John Smith & Son Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Aspire He Technologies LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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