ENLAYER LIMITED
Company number 05815973 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
ENLAYER LIMITED (formerly Ideal Networks Limited) is a credible mid-tier UK IT infrastructure consultancy with £13.1M turnover (2023), demonstrating nearly two decades of market resilience and a strategically sound shift toward higher-margin services and long-term contracts, evidenced by gross margin improvement from 41.2% to 46.1%. However, the company's thin 2.1% operating margin, 13% revenue decline, and significant recent corporate restructuring — including a rebrand and multiple board resignations in 2026 — create execution uncertainty that warrants close monitoring, despite the business maintaining healthy liquidity of £2.7M and group-level backing from Ideal Group Holdings Limited.
Shareholders' funds
£1,400,590
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of information technology consultants.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2006-05-15
- Employees
- 56 (2023 accounts · was 59 in 2022)
- Registered office
- City View, Stroudley Road, Brighton, England, BN1 4DJ
- Postcode
- BN1 4DJ
- Capital
- 10,102 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-23
- Next due by
- 2027-09-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 62020 Information technology consultancy activities
Officers 2 current · 8 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ENLAYER UK HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
£34,745 total awarded value where published.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA219663 (Tier 2), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- ideal.co.uk
- Phone
- 01273 957500, 01273 957555
Your Ideal partner in Networks & Connectivity, Advanced Wi-Fi, Cyber Security, Smart Buildings, Future-Proofed Workplaces and more.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| IDEAL NETWORKS LIMITED | 2026-11-02 |
Previous registered addresses 12
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 8 ARUNDEL PLACE, BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN2 1GD | 2016-07-25 |
| STRATFORD HOUSE 25 THE STRAND, BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE, B61 8AB | 2015-04-12 |
| 60 LANSDOWNE PLACE, HOVE, EAST SUSSEX, BN3 1FG, ENGLAND | 2011-03-22 |
| STRATFORD HOUSE 25 THE STRAND, BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE, B61 8AB | 2011-03-17 |
| 60 LANSDOWNE PLACE, HOVE, EAST SUSSEX, BN3 1FG | 2011-01-26 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 11/03/2009 FROM, 46 WITHDEAN CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 6WH, UNITED KINGDOM | 2009-03-11 |
| 46 WITHDEAN CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 6WH, UNITED KINGDOM | 2009-03-11 |
| 46 WITHDEAN CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 6WH, UNITED KINGDOM | 2008-06-27 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 27/06/2008 FROM, 46 WITHDEAN CRESCENT, BRIGHTON, BN1 6WH, UNITED KINGDOM | 2008-06-27 |
| 36 RIDGESIDE AVENUE, BRIGHTON, BN1 8WB | 2008-06-27 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 27/06/2008 FROM, 36 RIDGESIDE AVENUE, BRIGHTON, BN1 8WB | 2008-06-27 |
| 19 HILLCREST, BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1 5FP | 2007-06-04 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,141 similar companies in BN
3rd largest employer among its local peers (56 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2006.
No.15 of the largest information technology consultancy activities companies in Brighton →
Competitors Brighton
This company ranks 15 among information technology consultancy activities in Brighton.
The class of 2006
22%
of the 5,261 companies in this sector incorporated in 2006 are still active today; 75% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2024-12-10
- Where
- Brighton And Hove (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESX383582 | Brighton And Hove | Leasehold | 2024-12-10 | — |
| ESX375102 | Brighton And Hove | Leasehold | 2016-06-06 | — |
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