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Sme Group PLC

Active 38 years old · 955th oldest of 4,506 · incorporated in the 1980s

Company number02243425
StatusActive
Incorporated13/04/1988
Accounts last made up to31/03/2025
Next accounts due30/09/2026
Accounts typeGROUP
Legal Entity Identifier984500E00DC794DA0978
Charges outstanding5

Registered office

RUNWAY HOUSE, THE RUNWAY, RUISLIP, HA4 6SE

Online

No website could be identified for this company.

Filing history

This company has 139 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 29/09/2025. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 05/08/2026.

Filings: accounts27
Filings: officer changes20
Filings: annual returns15
Filings: confirmation statements12
Filings: charges9
Filings: share capital3

The most recent filings

Confirmation statement 05/08/2026
Confirmation statement 05/06/2026
Notification of a person with significant control 04/06/2026
Cessation of a person with significant control 04/06/2026
Group accounts 29/09/2025
Confirmation statement 30/05/2025
Confirmation statement 21/01/2025
Group accounts 30/09/2024
Confirmation statement 03/06/2024
Director appointed 20/10/2023

This is the list of documents filed, not their contents. A line saying accounts were filed records that they were filed and when; it says nothing about turnover, profit or assets, which are inside the documents themselves and are not published here. Read the filings on the Companies House record.

Who runs it

The register lists 5 current officers and 7 who have resigned.

Akbarali Kassamali Bata Secretaryappointed 22/09/2022
Aly Mohamed Esmail Secretaryappointed 02/01/2009
Sayed Mohamed Esmail Secretaryappointed 02/01/2009
Akbarali Kassamali Bata Directorappointed 01/02/2022
Aly Mohamed Esmail Directorappointed 24/10/2014

Who controls it

Companies must record the people or entities with significant control. The register shows 2 current entries.

Sme Group (Iom) Plc
Owns 75% to 100% of the shares; Holds 75% to 100% of the voting rights; Can appoint and remove directors
since 24/11/2025
Mr Aly Mohamed Esmail
Has significant influence or control
since 01/04/2017

Charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 7 registered charges, of which 5 are not yet recorded as satisfied.

A registered charge
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Outstanding, created 12/08/2014
Legal charge
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Outstanding, created 09/10/2012
Debenture
Citicapital Commercial Corporation
Fully satisfied, created 26/01/2007
Legal charge
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Outstanding, created 30/07/2004
Security over a deposit account
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 16/06/2003
Legal charge
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Outstanding, created 16/10/2002
Debenture
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Outstanding, created 16/05/1991

Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.

What it does

This page is compiled from the public register. Companies House does not verify the information filed with it, so treat everything here as what the company reported rather than as established fact. For filings, officers and charges, see the official Companies House record.

Registered office

No other PLC on the register gives this postcode.

On the register

  • 955th oldest of 4,506 PLCs
  • One of the 1980s cohort
  • Not in liquidation or facing strike off

There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.

Register data as at 2026-09-01 Download the full register (CSV)