COLBROOK SUPPLIES DIRECT LTD.
Company number SC251263 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Colbrook Supplies Direct occupies a challenging niche position within the UK chemical wholesale distribution sector, where its sub-£0.5m net asset base and 16-employee operation lacks the scale advantages of national competitors while facing identical regulatory and cost pressures. The company's three-year trajectory of declining net assets (39% erosion since FY2022), contracting cash position (70% reduction since FY2021), and FY2025 trading loss indicate a business under structural competitive pressure rather than cyclical stress, with the elimination of bank debt and director loan repayment suggesting defensive positioning rather than growth investment. While liquidity ratios remain adequate and the debt-free status provides some resilience, the absence of profitability and continued asset contraction raise questions about long-term viability without strategic recalibration—whether through niche specialisation, market repositioning, or potential exit via sector consolidation.
Shareholders' funds
£254,969
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-06-17
- Employees
- 16 (2025 accounts · was 17 in 2024)
- Registered office
- C/O STUART MCGREGOR LLP, Comac House 2 Coddington Crescent, Eurocentral, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, ML1 4YF
- Postcode
- ML1 4YF
- Capital
- 90 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2026-12-18
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-13
- Next due by
- 2027-06-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46750 Wholesale of chemical products
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA936661 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.colbrook.co.uk
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| C/O C/O STUART MCGREGOR LLP, SUITE 6 AIRDRIE BUSINESS CENTRE, 1 CHAPEL LANE, AIRDRIE, LANARKSHIRE, ML6 6GX, SCOTLAND | 2011-05-31 |
| C/O GORDON FERGUSON & CO, SUITE 29 AIRDRIE BUSINESS CENTRE, 1 CHAPEL LANE AIRDRIE, LANARKSHIRE, ML 6GX | 2009-11-02 |
| SUITE 35 1 CHAPEL LANE, AIRDRIE BUSINESS CENTRE, AIRDRIE, LANARKSHRIE ML6 6GX | 2007-10-15 |
| C/O GORDON FERGUSON & CO CA, 33 LAIRD STREET, COATBRIDGE, LANARKSHIRE ML5 3LW | 2006-11-01 |
| UNIT 25 COATBRIDGE BUSINESS, CENTRE, 204 MAIN STREET, COATBRIDGE, ML5 3RB | 2004-07-29 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 247 similar companies in ML — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (16 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.
The class of 2003
38%
of the 163,089 companies incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 59% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.