Company registration number 04433181 (England and Wales)
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
CONTENTS
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Directors' report
1
Balance sheet
2
Notes to the financial statements
3 - 10
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Principal activities
Sygna is an independent Commissioning Management and Technical Services consultancy.
We are recognised as experts in our field and are a proud winner of the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade.
The company has over 20 years of expertise delivering customised and complex solutions – spanning a wide range of sectors and projects including the kind of high-functioning spaces you see in data centres and mission-critical facilities, commercial offices, pharmaceutical laboratories, heritage projects, major developments, gigafactories and retail.
These accounts represent the trading position of Sygna (EMEA) Limited and are not consolidated with the wider Sygna group trading activities undertaken through overseas subsidiaries (which are reported separately).
Directors
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
R J Portes
C S Dodd
K Fletcher
Statement of disclosure to auditor
So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.
Small companies exemption
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.
On behalf of the board
C S Dodd
Director
29 September 2025
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 DECEMBER 2024
31 December 2024
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2024
2023
as restated
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
4
78,183
66,298
Investments
5
21,425
21,424
99,608
87,722
Current assets
Debtors
7
2,578,870
2,162,779
Cash at bank and in hand
887,306
762,654
3,466,176
2,925,433
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
8
(1,229,146)
(1,521,074)
Net current assets
2,237,030
1,404,359
Net assets
2,336,638
1,492,081
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
9
429
429
Share premium account
13,591
13,591
Capital redemption reserve
210
210
Profit and loss reserves
2,322,408
1,477,851
Total equity
2,336,638
1,492,081
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 29 September 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
C S Dodd
Director
Company registration number 04433181 (England and Wales)
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information
Sygna (EMEA) Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Level 9, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AA.
1.1
Accounting convention
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 399 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts, on the basis that the group of which this is the parent qualifies as a small group. The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group.
1.2
Turnover
Turnover is generated from the provision of commissioning and project management services. Turnover is recognised in line with agreed schedules and measured with regard to value of works completed on agreed projects.
1.3
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:
Computer equipment and hardware
33.33% on cost
The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.
1.4
Fixed asset investments
Interests in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.
A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.
An associate is an entity, being neither a subsidiary nor a joint venture, in which the company holds a long-term interest and where the company has significant influence. The company considers that it has significant influence where it has the power to participate in the financial and operating decisions of the associate.
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Entities in which the company has a long term interest and shares control under a contractual arrangement are classified as jointly controlled entities.
1.5
Impairment of fixed assets
At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any).
1.6
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
1.7
Financial instruments
The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
Basic financial assets and liabilities
Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in the profit and loss account in other administrative expenses.
Other financial liabilities are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs and are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest rate.
1.8
Equity instruments
Equity instruments being the share capital issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
1.9
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Deferred tax
Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
1.10
Employee benefits
The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense.
The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.
Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.
1.11
Retirement benefits
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.
1.12
Leases
Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.
1.13
Foreign exchange
Transactions in currencies other than pounds sterling are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.
2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2024
2023
Number
Number
Total
67
54
4
Tangible fixed assets
Computer equipment and hardware
£
Cost
At 1 January 2024
275,721
Additions
57,605
Disposals
(135,658)
At 31 December 2024
197,668
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 January 2024
209,423
Depreciation charged in the year
45,356
Eliminated in respect of disposals
(135,294)
At 31 December 2024
119,485
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
78,183
At 31 December 2023
66,298
5
Fixed asset investments
2024
2023
£
£
Shares in group undertakings and participating interests
21,425
21,424
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
5
Fixed asset investments
(Continued)
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Movements in fixed asset investments
Shares in subsidiaries
£
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2024
21,424
Additions
1
At 31 December 2024
21,425
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
21,425
At 31 December 2023
21,424
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Subsidiaries
Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 December 2024 are as follows:
Name of undertaking
Registered office
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
Sygna (Netherlands) B.V.
Kraanspoor 50, 1033SE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ordinary
100.00
Sygna (Germany) Gmbh
Office No. S-02,
4th Floor, Darmstädte, Landstrasse 116, Frankfurt am Main, 60598
Ordinary
100.00
Sygna (Ireland) Limited
1 Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6, Ireland
Ordinary
100.00
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Debtors
2024
2023
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
1,467,912
843,709
Corporation tax recoverable
102,215
151,991
Amounts owed by group undertakings
540,547
347,574
Other debtors
468,196
819,505
2,578,870
2,162,779
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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8
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2024
2023
£
£
Trade creditors
148,071
183,283
Amounts owed to group undertakings
373,633
270,467
Corporation tax
47,685
57,215
Other taxation and social security
106,381
363,681
Other creditors
553,376
646,428
1,229,146
1,521,074
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Called up share capital
2024
2023
2024
2023
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary of 1p each
42,921
42,921
429
429
10
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006:
The auditor's report was unqualified and dated 30 September 2025.
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Kerry Hilliard ACA FCCA CTA
Statutory Auditor:
Price Bailey LLP
Date:
30 September 2025
11
Operating lease commitments
Lessee
At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, as follows:
2024
2023
£
£
Within one year
105,493
95,358
Between two and five years
3,601
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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12
Related party transactions
Transactions with related parties
During the year the company entered into the following transactions with related parties:
Sales
Sales
2024
2023
£
£
Entities under common control
-
2,024,510
Management charge expense
Management fee income
2024
2023
2024
2023
£
£
£
£
Entities under common control
-
3,101
-
184,366
The following amounts were outstanding at the reporting end date:
2024
2023
Amounts due from related parties
£
£
Entities under common control
-
187,566
Other information
The company has provided security for a loan note issued by its Parent company, Sygna Holdings Ltd. There is a fixed and floating charge over all property and assets of the company.
The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of the Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.
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Parent company
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sygna Group (EMEA) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.
The registered office of the company is located at Level 9 One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, England, E14 5AA.
The ultimate controlling party is considered to be C Dodd and R Portes by virtue of their shareholding in the ultimate group parent, Sygna Holdings Ltd.
14
Prior period adjustment
Reconciliation of changes in equity
The prior period adjustments do not give rise to any effect upon equity.
SYGNA (EMEA) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
14
Prior period adjustment
(Continued)
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Reconciliation of changes in profit for the previous financial period
2023
£
Total adjustments
-
Profit as previously reported
639,453
Profit as adjusted
639,453
Notes to reconciliation
Following a re-evaluation of the classification of profit and loss items, 2023 figures have been restated within cost of sales, administrative expenses and interest to reflect a consistent treatment with 2024.
Restated 2023
2023
£
£
Cost of sales
6,816,945
6,333,495
Administrative expenses
2,163,185
2,660,849
Interest payable and similar expenses
14,222
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