Optical Express (Holdings) Limited
Registered name: OPTICAL EXPRESS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Part of Moulsdale Investments Limited groupOptical Express (Holdings) Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 28 Dec 2024 show net assets of -£2.4m.
Optical Express (Holdings) 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 28 Dec 2024 showed net assets of −£2.4m and 0 employees. The company is classified under “other human health activities” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 immediate controlling party is DCM (Optical Holdings) Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Optical Express (Holdings) Limited’s accounts for the year to 28 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
- 0
- Net assets
- −£2.4m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 30 Dec 2023 | 28 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | −£2.4m | −£2.4m | −£2.4m |
| Debtors | £4k | £5k | £7k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
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 −£2.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Moulsdale Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- DCM (Optical Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Optical Express (Holdings) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Optical Express LimitedRev. £97m · Profit £12.9m
- Optical Express (Westfield) LimitedRev. £18.7m · Profit −£41k
- Cruach Capital LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Frame Zone 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 28 Dec 2024, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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