{"name":"A.C. PUDDLE & CO. LIMITED","company_number":"01168355","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1974-04-29","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"111 Osborne Road, Pontypool, Gwent, NP4 6LU","postcode":"NP4 6LU","sic_codes":[{"code":43220,"description":"Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Micro","year_end":"30 April","last_made_up_to":"2026-04-30","next_due":"2028-01-31"},"employees":{"count":5,"accounts_date":"2026-04-30"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-04-30","net_assets":100253,"average_employees":5},{"financial_date":"2025-04-30","net_assets":91025,"average_employees":5},{"financial_date":"2024-04-30","net_assets":93513,"average_employees":5},{"financial_date":"2023-04-30","net_assets":121060},{"financial_date":"2022-04-30","net_assets":131651}],"officers":{"current":7,"resigned":0,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":3,"outstanding":3},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"A.C. Puddle & Co. Limited is a solvent, debt-free, 51-year-old family plumbing and HVAC contractor whose financial health has been quietly deteriorating for three years: net assets have fallen 30.9% from their 2022 peak to £91,025, working capital has thinned to just £4,065 (current ratio 1.07), and the most recent year's asset growth was funded entirely by a 19% rise in short-term creditors rather than by earnings. The company is not in distress — there is no long-term debt, no overdue filing and no insolvency indicator — and the sharply decelerating rate of decline suggests the position may be stabilising, but the absence of any filed profit and loss account means the underlying cause cannot be confirmed from public data. The priority actions are to produce monthly management accounts, explain the outsized 2024 fall in reserves, and rebuild working capital toward a 1.25–1.5 current ratio before the thin liquidity cushion is tested.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/ac-puddle-co","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01168355","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/ac-puddle-co/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/ac-puddle-co"}