KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LIMITED
Trading as KBR, this company operates as the UK engineering and technical consulting arm of the NYSE-listed science and technology group KBR, Inc., providing services across the aerospace, defence, and industrial sectors.
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Cash
£6.6M
-82.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£1.2B
-32.3% vs 2023
Employees
14
-12.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£131M
-45.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £293,316,000 | £360,795,000 | +23% | |
| Operating profit | -£10,233,000 | -£11,336,000 | -10.8% | |
| Profit before tax | £243,154,000 | £131,495,000 | -45.9% | |
| Net profit | £228,069,000 | £118,850,000 | -47.9% | |
| Cash | £38,830,000 | £6,645,000 | -82.9% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,847,340,000 | £1,272,907,000 | -31.1% | |
| Net assets | £1,732,356,000 | £1,172,361,000 | -32.3% | |
| Equity | £1,732,356,000 | £1,172,361,000 | -32.3% | |
| Average employees | 16 | 14 | -12.5% | |
| Wages | £892,000 | £662,000 | -25.8% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £602,000 | £407,000 | -32.4% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.5% | -3.1% | |
| Net margin | 77.8% | 32.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.6% | -0.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.59x | 1.98x | |
| Interest cover | -0.35x | -0.41x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LIMITED 2002-11-01 → present
- HALLIBURTON BROWN & ROOT LIMITED 2000-06-30 → 2002-11-01
- BROWN & ROOT LIMITED 1991-05-23 → 2000-06-30
- BROWN & ROOT (U.K.) LIMITED 1959-12-22 → 1991-05-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the Directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LIMITED · parent
- Brown & Root Highlands Fabricators Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root Overseas Projects Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root Group Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root (Greenford) Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root International (MWK) Limited 100%
- Granherne Limited 100%
- Howard Humphreys & Partners Limited 100%
- Overseas Supply Services Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root Projects Limited 100%
- KBR Arabia Limited 100%
- Bonny 7 Project Management Company Limited 100%
- FTX Logistics Limited 100%
- AOC International Limited 100%
- AOC Nigeria Limited 100%
- Aspire Defence Services Limited 100%
- Aspire Defence Capital Works JV 100%
- Aspire Defence Services JV 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction) Holdings No.2 Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction) Holdings Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction) Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction Ventures) Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction Ventures) Holdings Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Construction Ventures) Holdings No. 2 Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services) Holdings No.2 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services) Holdings Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services) Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services Ventures) Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services Ventures) Holdings Limited 100%
- KBR (Aspire Services Ventures) Holdings No.2 Limited 100%
- KBR (U.K.) Investments Limited 100%
- Kellogg Brown & Root Trustees Limited 100%
- Howard Humphreys (Kenya) Limited 100%
- Frazer-Nash Consultancy Limited 100%
- Harmonic Limited 100%
- VIMA Group Consultancy Limited 100%
- VIMA Consultancy Limited 100%
- VIMA Bristol Limited 100%
- VIMA Group Services Limited 100%
- EITEC Limited 100%
- Bristol Management Centre Limited 100%
- Fasttrax Holdings Limited 100%
- Fasttrax Limited 100%
- Phoenix (U.K.) Fusion Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 25 June 2025, KBR Property Holdings LP sold the freehold property at Leatherhead to the Company for £45,577,842. The seller transferred the property with full title guarantee.”
- “On 6 January 2025, Kellogg Brown & Root Holdings (U.K.) Limited contributed a receivable loan amount from Kellogg Brown & Root International Group Limited loan amount of £229,629,178 to the company in consideration for the issuance of one additional ordinary share of £1.00 in itself to Kellogg Brown & Root Holdings (U.K) Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 57 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CABLE-LEWIS, Merida Samantha Zena, Mrs. | Secretary | 2025-05-15 | — | — |
| GALINDO, Sonia, Mrs. | Secretary | 2023-01-02 | — | — |
| BRADIE, Stuart John Baxter | Director | 2020-04-29 | Aug 1966 | British |
| GOODWIN, Andrew Marino | Director | 2024-04-11 | Feb 1985 | American |
| IBRAHIM, Jalal Jay | Director | 2016-04-04 | Aug 1960 | American |
| O'SHAUGHNESSY, Paul Charles, Mr. | Director | 2024-07-15 | Nov 1975 | British |
Show 57 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENNIKER SMITH, Ian Maurice | Secretary | — | 2004-11-30 |
| KRAMER, Adam Miles, Mr. | Secretary | 2021-03-16 | 2023-01-02 |
| NELHAMS, Martin | Secretary | 2004-11-30 | 2020-01-02 |
| WILSON, Gina Mary | Secretary | 2020-01-02 | 2021-03-16 |
| AL-DADAH, Ahmed, Mr. | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2020-07-27 |
| ALLAN, Albert William | Director | 2008-04-14 | 2012-08-28 |
| BAKSHI, Ashok Kumar | Director | 1994-11-01 | 1995-09-01 |
| BARRETT, James Arthur | Director | 2008-01-31 | 2020-07-31 |
| BARRIE, Andrew Jonathan | Director | 2020-04-07 | 2022-09-30 |
| BEVERIDGE, Ronald Gordon | Director | 2002-06-18 | 2004-11-30 |
| BLIGH, John Matthew | Director | — | 1996-12-06 |
| BRAENDELAND, Jan Egil | Director | 2015-11-03 | 2020-04-07 |
| BRYDEN, Gordon | Director | 2005-06-30 | 2008-04-07 |
| BUTLER, Basil Richard Ryland | Director | — | 1997-12-10 |
| CHAMBERS, Norman Charles | Director | — | 1996-09-24 |
| DALY, Michael Owen | Director | 2020-04-07 | 2024-04-09 |
| DUNBAR, David Addison Milne | Director | — | 1994-05-13 |
| ELLIS, Andrew Neil | Director | 2002-11-04 | 2004-02-26 |
| EVANS, John Llyr | Director | 2002-11-04 | 2005-06-30 |
| FARMER, Larry, Dr | Director | — | 2001-12-31 |
| FITZGERALD, Mel Oliver | Director | 2001-03-01 | 2002-11-04 |
| FORDER, Kevin James | Director | 2005-01-05 | 2005-10-05 |
| GIBSON, David Lindsay | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2020-04-07 |
| GRAND, Daniel Frank | Director | 2008-04-07 | 2010-04-14 |
| HAMILTON, James Arnot, Sir | Director | 1998-01-01 | 1999-12-31 |
| HEGARTY, Neil Patrick | Director | 2012-01-24 | 2013-01-18 |
| HENRY, Keith Nicholas | Director | — | 1995-02-10 |
| HOBDEN, William Philip | Director | 2004-11-30 | 2008-04-14 |
| JACKSON, Walter Twelve | Director | — | 1996-11-29 |
| KAHN, Paul Emmanuel, Mr. | Director | 2022-10-20 | 2024-07-12 |
| KEILLER, Robert | Director | 2004-11-30 | 2006-04-30 |
| KNEZ, Stanislaus Augustine | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2005-01-05 |
| KNIGHT, Thomas Elwood | Director | — | 1996-11-30 |
| LAYZELL, Erik Francis | Director | 2005-12-02 | 2008-01-31 |
| LESAR, David John | Director | 1996-12-11 | 2000-12-22 |
| LEWIS, James Edward | Director | 2013-01-18 | 2020-04-07 |
| LEWIS, James Edward | Director | 2008-04-14 | 2012-01-24 |
| LLOYD, Stephen George | Director | 2006-01-30 | 2011-04-28 |
| MORGAN, Iain Kenneth | Director | 2004-02-26 | 2005-12-02 |
| MORRIS, Gary Victor | Director | 2000-12-22 | 2002-05-15 |
| MORRIS, James Richard Samuel, Sir | Director | — | 1992-10-21 |
| MUJIB, Farhan | Director | 2012-08-28 | 2020-04-07 |
| NOBLE, Trevor Mills | Director | 2002-11-04 | 2004-02-27 |
| NOBLE, Trevor Mills | Director | 1995-12-13 | 2000-07-28 |
| PATON, Nigel John | Director | 2002-11-18 | 2003-09-01 |
| PRINGLE, Andrew Robert Douglas, Major General | Director | 2008-04-07 | 2016-09-14 |
| PRYOR, Anthony Francis | Director | 2000-10-10 | 2005-03-24 |
| PRYOR, Anthony Francis | Director | 1994-03-16 | 1994-09-01 |
| RAZNAHAN, Manouchehr | Director | — | 1995-07-27 |
| RUSSELL, Andrew Paterson | Director | 2002-11-04 | 2003-11-26 |
| SIMMONITE, Martin | Director | 2015-08-25 | 2020-07-27 |
| SLATTERY, Timothy Mary | Director | 2002-11-04 | 2004-11-30 |
| STEPHENS, Arthur Edward | Director | 1994-12-02 | 1997-01-01 |
| SUCH, Colin | Director | 2011-04-28 | 2013-05-01 |
| SULLIVAN, Richard Francis | Director | 2013-05-01 | 2020-04-07 |
| WALKER, Millard | Director | 2003-11-26 | 2004-10-01 |
| WOODHEAD, Alan Lindsay, Dr. | Director | 2004-11-30 | 2015-07-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kellogg Brown Root Holdings (U.K.) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 314 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-03-30 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2026-03-30 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-30 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-14 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-05-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-07 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-08-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 5
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.