CENTRADO TRADING LIMITED
Company number 08172714 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Centrado Trading is a well-capitalized market leader executing a disciplined buy-and-build strategy in the UK picture framing wholesale niche, with a strong balance sheet (£10.76M equity, £9.36M net current assets) that provides both strategic optionality and acquisition firepower. The immediate priorities are: accelerating domestic consolidation before competitors or private equity enter the space; scaling the German subsidiary into a genuine European growth platform; and investing in digital capabilities and professional management depth to ensure the business can integrate acquisitions and sustain growth beyond the current family-led governance model. The principal tension to manage is balancing the significant dividend extraction pattern against the reinvestment required to capture the consolidation opportunity while it exists.
Shareholders' funds
£10,764,057
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-08-08
- Employees
- 116 (2024 accounts · was 111 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Centrado House Willow Road, The Lakes Business Park, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, PE28 9RB
- Postcode
- PE28 9RB
- Capital
- 200 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-07-15
- Next due by
- 2027-07-29
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 1 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by CENTRADO GROUP LIMITED — since 2021-02-09
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA368534 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.centrado.co
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 10 GLEBE ROAD, ST. PETERS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HUNTINGDON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, PE29 7DL | 2015-04-30 |
| UNIT 10 GLEBE ROAD ST. PETERS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HUNTINGDON, PE29 2DL, ENGLAND | 2012-08-16 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 226 similar companies in PE
3rd largest employer among its local peers (116 staff).
Trading since 2012.
No.4 of the largest other manufacturing not elsewhere classified companies in Peterborough →
Competitors Peterborough
This company ranks 4 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Peterborough.
The class of 2012
30%
of the 1,660 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 67% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.