{"name":"H.TEMPEST LIMITED","company_number":"00374510","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1942-06-16","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"The Colour Laboratory, Lelant, St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 3HU","postcode":"TR26 3HU","sic_codes":[{"code":74201,"description":"Portrait photographic activities"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the Group during the financial year continued to be that of providing portrait and group photography services internationally.","previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Group","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":{"count":604,"accounts_date":"2025-12-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-12-31","average_employees":604},{"financial_date":"2024-12-31","average_employees":572},{"financial_date":"2023-12-31","profit_loss":1276474,"net_assets":27320326,"cash":23170619,"average_employees":599}],"officers":{"current":8,"resigned":13,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":9,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"H.Tempest Limited is an 83-year-old family-owned photography business in outstanding structural health: debt-free, holding £17.9m of net current assets and £27.2m of net assets, with liquidity most companies would envy. However, it swung to a £185k loss in FY2025 on flat £32.8m turnover, and its return on £27m of equity is negligible — the diagnosis is a fortress balance sheet powering a weak profit engine. The prognosis is stable with minimal insolvency risk, but margin repair, capital efficiency, and succession tidying are the prescriptions needed to convert financial endurance into financial vitality.","website":"http://www.htempest.co.uk","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/htempest","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00374510","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/charges","pay_gap":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/pay-gap","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/htempest/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/htempest"}