ARCHER AND SMITH LIMITED
Company number 00687939 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Archer and Smith is a long-established niche UK furniture manufacturer with a stable but shrinking balance sheet and a newly secured multi-year contract that provides a clear recovery platform. Its immediate priority should be converting the £942K intercompany debtor into cash and rebuilding liquidity, while scaling production and complementary services around the secured contract. If managed decisively, the company can stabilise net assets and move from survival to selective growth.
Shareholders' funds
£618,015
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1961-03-27
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts · was 7 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 18 Woodside Road, South Marston Industrial Estate, Swindon, England, SN3 4WA
- Postcode
- SN3 4WA
- Capital
- 4,830 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 10 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-01
- Next due by
- 2027-09-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 31090 Manufacture of other furniture
Officers 3 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ARCHER AND SMITH HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2018-08-31
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA761980 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| THE MANOR HOUSE, HODSON ROAD, CHISELDON, NR. SWINDON, WILTS SN4 OLN | 2015-08-24 |
| THE MANOR HOUSE, HODSON ROAD, CHISELDON, NR. SWINDON, WILTS SN4 OLN | 2015-08-24 |
| TURNBALL, CHISLEDEN, WILTS | 1988-04-18 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 33 similar companies in SN
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1961.
No.4 of the largest manufacture of other furniture companies in Swindon →
Competitors Swindon
This company ranks 4 among manufacture of other furniture in Swindon.