• Expleo Sas (ultimate controlling company)
Correspondence address: 70 Boulevard De Courcelles, Paris, Paris, France, 75017
Governing law: France
Legal form: Sas
Place registered: France
Registration number: 509768917
Nature of control: Ownership of shares – 75% or more
Ownership of voting rights – 75% or more
Right to appoint and remove directors
Incorporated in: France

• Expleo Uk Limited (ultimate holding company in the UK)
Correspondence address: Expleo Uk Limited Club Street, Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, England, PR5 6FN
Governing law: Limited Company
Legal form: Private Limited Company
Place Registered: England & Wales
Registration number: 03218561
Nature of control: Ownership of shares – 75% or more
Ownership of voting rights – 75% or more

• Hoyle Jeffrey Lee
Correspondence address: 26 Regent Street, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4HG
Date of birth: September 1966
Nationality: British
Country of residence: England
Occupation: MD in Expleo UK Engineering & Stirling Dynamics

• Ultimate Parent Company: Expleo Sas (Headquartered in France)
• Ultimate Controlling Party in the UK: Expleo UK Limited
For this reason, it is considered to be more useful to cite the shareholding structure of the ultimate controlling party in the UK.

Statement of Capital (Share Capital)
• Class of Shares: Ordinary
Currency: GBP
Number Allotted: 3226800
Aggregate nominal value: 3226800

• Statement of Capital (Total)
Currency: GBP
Total Number of Shares : 3226800
Total Aggregate nominal value: 3226800

• Full Details of Shareholders

Shareholding 1: ORDINARY shares held as at the date of this confirmation statement
Name: Expleo Sas (Headquartered in France)

Strategy

Economy

The uncertainty over Brexit is being managed successfully by the company by maintaining a strong order book outside Europe. Developing long-term strategic relationships with these overseas customers is imperative. 

Geographical Expansion: The company exports make up over 80% of their business and their teams support clients in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia Pacific. 

Covid-19 Risk & Management Plan

• During March 2020, the company analysed the main risks presented by the Covid-19 crisis with the following being the main risks:
• Ensuring the health and safety of employees and others
• The effect on the level of business activity and how the company could continue activity in line with lockdown restrictions.

The company has formed a Covid-19 crisis Management team including directors and senior management which meets regularly to ensure active management of these risks including:

• Active support from the wider Expleo Group
• Implementation of all actions and procedures to ensure appropriate health and safety requirements and compliance with governmental guidance.
• Close liaison with current and prospective customers to ensure appropriate activity levels, managed through detailed forecasts.
• Significant move to home working for the vast majority of the staff

Foreign Exchange risk

The company is predominantly exposed to currency risk on sales made in several different currencies. The company operates natural hedging through operating bank accounts in a number of currencies, including US dollars and Euros. It is company policy to hold foreign currency balances sufficient to settle future liabilities in that same foreign currency.

Competition

The company is able to maintain its a competitive advantage by continual investment in business development, R&D training business systems and improvements in production methods to support the market needs.

The company is investing in an R&D programme to address the evolving needs of the military pilot training environment, which is trending towards high-fidelity, lower-cost desktop simulators.

Portfolio Diversification:

In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, it is anticipated that there will be down-turn in aerospace engineering activity over the next 3-5 years due to the reduction in air passenger travel, a reduction in new aircraft orders and the subsequent reduction in outsourcing of aerospace R&D activity. The company is preparing for this situation y exploring and making plans for diversification into a number of adjacent business sectors where the core skills of dynamics, systems, simulation and control can be deployed as transferable capabilities.

Ambitions

• Further Growth both by Acquisition and Organically
• Gain larger market share both on a national and international level

Their clientele’s core market sectors are Aerospace and Marine services and tools.

Customer Examples

• Mitsubishi aircraft Corporation

• Comac

• Leonardo

• To help their clients meet the global challenges that are facing in the training of their employees
• To provide the transfer of knowledge and technology, and the guidance required to help their clients deliver programmes.

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) during 2019, amounted to 87 (2018:83).

Retirement benefits: Defined Contribution Plan

Staff Benefits:

They offer a competitive salary, a generous pension contribution and flexible working hours to help you balance your work/life demands. Skills development through training, mentoring and presenting papers at industry conferences are actively encouraged as an integral aspect of every employee’s Continuous Professional Development programme. A bonus scheme linked to business performance provides financial recognition of an individual’s contribution to our business success.

Employee Reviews on Glassdoor

Overall Rating: 4.2/5

Analytical Rating:

• Culture and Values: 4.3/5
• Diversity and Inclusion: n/a
• Work-life Balance: 3.7/5
• Senior Management: 3.5/5
• Compensation and Benefits: 3.6/5
• Career Opportunities: 2.9/5

Anonymous Employee in Bristol, England August 2020 (1/5)

Modeling and Simulation Engineer Interview

No Offer

Negative Experience

Average Interview

Application

“I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Stirling Dynamics (Bristol, England)”

Interview

“One on-site interview in their office (Bristol). It felt more like the interviewers were trying to catch me out with every question rather than evaluating my skills.

Never received an answer.”

Interview

“Design a controller for a submarine and characterization of the system.”

The diversity of capabilities is why so many clients see Stirling as the solution to their project challenges, providing effective integrated working processes and a commitment to developing strong client partnerships.
• 30 years of experience
• Stirling plays a key role in the retention of the UK’s onshore maritime capability and
specialises in submarine and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).
Since the early 1990s, the company has supported 10 worldwide navies in the design and test
of a wide range of submarines.
• Stirling supplies a range of standard and custom solutions for test, training and simulation
applications. They delivered services for Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and Leonardo.

Awards

2018: Stirling won Consultancy of the Year at the British Engineering Excellence Awards

Stirling has been included within the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 for SME Exporters

The principal activity of the company is to provide complex technical engineering services and state-of-the-art control system technology into aerospace, marine and training and stimulating markets. The company operates through the following business streams after aligning its key activities with the principal markets for its products and services. These are:

• Aerospace Technical Services: Focusing on high-end engineering and consultancy services which support complex design and development programmes in the aerospace industries including those with demanding safety-critical requirements.
• Aerospace and Marine Systems: Providing world-leading control technologies with a product portfolio that spans state-of-the-art advanced pilot training, stimulation equipment, autopilots and hover control for submarines including safety-critical systems.

Annual Report File

Locations:
BRISTOL OFFICE
26 Regent Street, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4HG, UK

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Awards/Accreditations/Memberships:

2018: Stirling won Consultancy of the Year at the British Engineering Excellence Awards

Stirling has been included within the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 for SME Exporters (place 99) 2017

They are approved to the global aerospace quality standard AS9100

Member of the ITAR Approved Community (certifying UK exports to the US).

Case Studies available here

For Aerospace projects for clients

For Marine Projects for clients

Competitors List (alphabetical order)
Criterion: Industry subcategory, Company Size and Product

AKKA Technologies
Employee Count: n/a (they are a large company with multiple locations across the globe)

ALTEN Ltd (part of Alten Group)
Employee Count: 740:2019

Altran UK Ltd (part of Capgemini)
Employee Count: 404:2019