BLP (NORTHERN) LIMITED
Company number 02605236 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
BLP (Northern) Limited is exhibiting signs of acute financial stress, characterized by a 60% drop in working capital, a shift to operating losses, and a heavy reliance on expensive invoice factoring to maintain cash flow. While the company has invested heavily in new equipment, it has funded this by stretching trade creditors and draining cash reserves, leaving its short-term liquidity dangerously thin. Immediate treatment is required to convert excess inventory to cash, reduce reliance on factoring, and refinance short-term debts to restore operational stability.
Shareholders' funds
£1,403,319
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of a manufacturing printer and provider of direct mail services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1991-04-25
- Employees
- 118 (2025 accounts · was 111 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 99/15 North Tyne Industrial Estate, Whitley Road, Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 9SZ
- Postcode
- NE12 9SZ
- Capital
- 281,895 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-08-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 18129 Printing not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 15 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ECOPACK HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2023-07-04
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2143068 (Tier 1), registered since 2010.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| BLP PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 2001-11-28 |
| BLP PRINTING & PACKAGING LIMITED | 2000-10-16 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 99 15, NORTH TYNE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, WHITLEY ROAD, BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 9SZ | 2008-04-28 |
| UNIT 99/15, NORTH TYNE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, WHITLEY ROAD BENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE12 9SZ | 2006-05-10 |
| UNIT 2/3 SILVERBIRCH, CAMPERDOWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. NE12 0RF | 1994-02-24 |
| UNIT 2/3 SILVERBIRCH, CAMPERDOWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, KILLINGWORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. NE12 0RF | 1994-02-24 |
| 61 FAIRVIEW AVENUE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, ME8 0QP | 1991-05-16 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 101 similar companies in NE
The largest employer among its local peers (118 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1991.
No.6 of the largest printing not elsewhere classified companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne →
Competitors Newcastle Upon Tyne
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2. ELANDERS LTD
This company ranks 6 among printing not elsewhere classified in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
The class of 1991
49%
of the 20,887 companies incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2024-07-09
- Where
- Tyne And Wear
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TY605459 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2024-07-09 | — |
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