BEDFORD CAR CENTRES LIMITED
Company number 08615396 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bedford Car Centres is a micro, owner-managed used-car dealer with a lean, asset-light balance sheet and a consistent growth record: FY2025 total assets reached £415k and net assets £117k, with positive net current assets of £111k. Its strategic priority should be to convert this resilience into disciplined scale through better stock turn, digital lead generation and higher-margin finance/aftersales, while protecting working capital and reducing key-person and regulatory risk. The main constraints are sub-scale competition, high current liabilities and limited management/financial transparency, which should be addressed through tighter KPI reporting, succession depth and prudent stock funding.
Shareholders' funds
£116,577
Balance sheet as at 2025-07-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2013-07-18
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts · was 3 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Top Barn Rectory Road, Steppingley, Bedford, MK45 5AT
- Postcode
- MK45 5AT
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-30
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-18
- Next due by
- 2027-08-01
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45112 Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles
Officers 1 current · 1 resigned
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB219401 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.
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Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 317 similar companies in MK
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (4 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2013.
Competitors Milton Keynes
This company ranks 49 among sale of used cars and light motor vehicles in Milton Keynes.
The class of 2013
26%
of the 1,986 companies in this sector incorporated in 2013 are still active today; 68% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.