ON LINE GROUP LIMITED
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Executive summary
On Line Group Limited is a mid-tier, family-owned engineering services and technical recruitment group operating primarily in the UK's process, energy, and chemical sectors, strategically positioned within the Humber Industrial Cluster. FY2025 results reflect a severe but contextually explicable deterioration—a 20% revenue decline driven by sector-specific capex deferral, compounded by fixed-price contract exposure and an under-absorbed cost base producing a £2.2M loss and gross margin compression to 12.9%, materially below the 22-30% industry norm for engineering consultancies. While the balance sheet retains strength through accumulated retained earnings of £9.75M, the group's competitive sustainability depends on the credibility of its claimed return to profitability from July 2025 and its ability to leverage its diversified service model and Humber-region positioning as the UK's industrial decarbonisation agenda—particularly the delayed Humber Cluster support—translates into committed project pipelines.
Shareholders' funds
£9,746,200
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
the provision of design, consultancy and project management services to the refining, power, oil & gas and chemical industries, the provision of agency personnel to industrial, engineering and commercial employment, and the provision of machining and fabrication engineering services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-10-04
- Employees
- 0 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- On Line House, Pelham Road, Immingham, North Lincolnshire, DN40 1AB
- Postcode
- DN40 1AB
- Capital
- 5,750,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-04
- Next due by
- 2027-10-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70100 Activities of head offices
Officers 6 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 9 subsidiaries
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ANGLIA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS LIMITED Dissolved
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ON LOAN RECRUITMENT LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ON LINE DESIGN & ENGINEERING GROUP LIMITED | 2017-10-26 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 141 similar companies in DN
Trading since 2012.
No.4 of the largest activities of head offices companies in Doncaster →
Competitors Doncaster
This company ranks 4 among activities of head offices in Doncaster.
The class of 2012
41%
of the 1,873 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2023-11-17
- Price paid, where recorded
- £179,950
- Where
- North East Lincolnshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HS411804 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2023-11-17 | £179,950 |
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