Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2014
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2024
- On its latest accounts it owed £4.08m more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) Limited Reference number: 722968 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- 2 Excel Engineering (FRN 981394) introduces customers to Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) Limited (FRN 722968). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not 2 Excel Engineering.
- Example: if 2 Excel Engineering refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from 2 Excel Engineering itself.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
72 Fielding Road, London, W4 1DB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01256 825126 is
- Who else gives the postcode W4 1DB
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company name
- 2 EXCEL ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Company number
- 08965471 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 March 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery (SIC 30300)
- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher James Richard Norton | Director | Jul 1965 | 28 Mar 2014 | 15 other companies |
| Matthew Caswell | Director | Feb 1981 | 15 Dec 2021 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 16
- closed down
- 2
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 16 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£22.4m
+9.5% from £20.5m
Profit before tax
£532k
+1.7% from £523k
Net assets
−£4.08m
Up £532k from −£4.61m
Cash at bank
£28.6k
−87% from £225k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £4.08m more than it owned.
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- Both charts, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 08965471. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
2 Excel Engineering’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
16 April 2024
- 2 Excel Bidco Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Ach Chiswick Limited stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2022
22 August 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2019
4 April 2019
- Ach Chiswick Limited became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Ach London Limited stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2018
27 March 2018
- 2 Excel Aviation Limited stopped being a part-owner
- Ach London Limited became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- 2 Excel Aviation Limited became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2014
28 March 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (9 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to 2 Excel Engineering
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with 2 Excel Engineering. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
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- 16 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk