How many employees does Cansford Associates Limited have?

Cansford Associates Limited reported an average of 6 employees in the year to 31 Dec 2024.

Company No. 05558883 · Incorporated 9 Sep 2005

Cansford Associates Limited

Registered name: CANSFORD ASSOCIATES LIMITED

Cansford Associates Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2024 show net assets of £3.8m and 6 employees.

Cansford Associates 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 2024 showed net assets of £3.8m and 6 employees. The company is classified under “technical testing and analysis” and is based in Cardiff; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.

Balance sheet onlySection M · Professional, scientific and technical activitiesSIC 71200Technical testing and analysis

Status: Active
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Age: 21 yrs · since 2005
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 Cortex Bidco Limited. TIC Holdco Limited is the ultimate controlling party.”

Latest accounts · year to 31 Dec 2024

Key figures

Small team

Revenue not disclosed

Cansford Associates Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 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: 6
Net assets: £3.8m

Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.

3 filed years

Financial history

Multi-year financials, oldest to newest
Year to	31 Dec 2022	31 Dec 2023	31 Dec 2024
Disclosure	No P&L	No P&L	No P&L
Profit & loss
Revenue (turnover)	—	—	—
Profit (best available)	—	—	—
Employees (average)	4	7	6
Ratios
Profit margin	—	—	—
Growth (year on year)
Headcount growth	—	—	▼14.3%
Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue
Cash at bank	£726k	£9.5k	£686k
Net assets	£3.8m	£3.8m	£3.8m
Current assets	£4.1m	£9.5m	£6.9m
Debtors	£3.3m	£9.5m	£6.3m
Source	FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024	FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024	FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025

Indirect — not revenue

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: ▼1%; Now £3.8m
Cash at bank: ▲7086%; Now £686k
Headcount: ▼14%; Now 6
Deferred income: —; Now —
Fixed assets: —; Now —

Corporate ownership

Group structure

Ownership chain

Tic Pledgeco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
Tic Bidco Limited75–100%
Puma Topco Limited75–100%
Puma Bidco Limited75–100%
Phenna Group Topco Limited75–100%
Phenna Group Midco 1 Limited75–100%
Phenna Group Midco 2 Limited75–100%
Phenna Group Holdings Limited75–100%
Cortex Topco Limited75–100%
Cortex Bidco Limited75–100%
Cansford Associates Limitedthis company

Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.

Subsidiaries (1)

Cansford Laboratories LimitedRev. £7.5m · Profit £3.3m

From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).

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Sources

Companies House profile Filing history & original accounts

Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

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