Frontier Developments

Frontier Developments is the company headed by David Braben. The company was the developer of Frontier Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters. The company has strongly hinted that it has plans to develop Elite 4. The company is headquarted at Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, having moved from Saxon Farm, Cambridge, in 2005. The company is registered as a private limited company.

Financials

Since Frontier Developments is a private limited company, and not publically traded, there is very little information on the company's financial performance (which will in turn suggest how likely it is that Elite 4 will be developed). However, publically available information suggests that the company is rapidly expanding in both numbers of staff and the scope of its work. It also seems likely that games are not the sole source of the company's income - they also appear to sell tools to other companies.

Information that the company must file by law with the UK's Companies House indicates that as of May 2005, the company has net assets of £2.4 million, up from the 2004 figure of £1.6 million. The company had tangible assets (buildings, vehicles, computers etc.) of £230,000 in 2005, up from £144,000 in 2004. The limited information available indicates that the company is in a good state of financial health with just over £2 million available in the bank - a doubling compared to 2004, and liabilities falling within the year of only quarter of that amount

David Braben retains overall control of the company.

This article is a stub. You can help EliteWiki by expanding it.