Avid PLC
Reference number: 490602
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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 18 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1992
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
Jigsaw Insurance Services Limited Reference number: 307654 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.
- Avid Plc (FRN 490602) introduces customers to Jigsaw Insurance Services Limited (FRN 307654). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Avid.
- Example: if Avid refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Avid 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
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Website
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Phone number
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Address
Unit 1, Knights Court, South Chailey, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 4QF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When avidplc.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01273 408720 is
- Who else gives the postcode BN8 4QF
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Jigsaw Insurance Services 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 number
- 02691049 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Public limited company
- Incorporated
- 26 February 1992 (34 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Non-specialised wholesale trade (SIC 46900)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Peter George Troesch | Director | May 1954 | 30 Oct 1992 | 2 other companies |
| Simon James Clark | Director | Jun 1979 | 27 Dec 2017 | 4 other companies |
| Peter Troesch | Secretary | Not published | 1 Apr 1999 | 2 other companies |
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
- 6
- closed down
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 6 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 9 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£2.20m
+12% from £1.96m
Profit before tax
£338k
−39% from £551k
Net assets
£2.23m
+12% from £2.00m
Cash at bank
£1.31m
−17% from £1.58m
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
Figures from the year to 31 December 2024 are for the group: the company and the businesses it owns. Earlier years are the company’s own accounts, from before it had a group.
The figures for the year to 31 December 2025 were read from the printed accounts, because the filing does not tag them in a form that can be read automatically. They were checked against the accounts’ own totals.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02691049. 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
Avid’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
13 September 2023
- Avid Identification Systems Inc. gave up control
- Peter Troesch gained significant control
- Peter Troesch no longer has significant control
Companies House
2017
27 December 2017
- Hannis Stoddard III stopped being the majority owner
- Peter Troesch gave up control
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Avid Identification Systems Inc. took control (75–100% of shares)
- Hannis Stoddard III became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Peter Troesch gave up control
- Peter Troesch took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2008
23 October 2008
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
1992
26 February 1992
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 25 events
- All 25 events in its history (11 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 14
Firms connected to Avid
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Avid. 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
Firms like Avid
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Lewes
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- 6 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 25 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