COLLECTIVE INK LIMITED
Company number 02923843 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Collective Ink Limited is a long-established independent publisher with a valuable backlist and strong group infrastructure support, but it faces acute liquidity challenges with cash reserves at £11,985 and net assets declining 44.5% over four years. The company's survival currently depends on director financing (£275,000 and growing), making urgent working capital optimisation—particularly inventory-to-POD conversion and debtor acceleration—essential alongside a coherent digital rebrand strategy to restore profitability and reduce capital dependency.
Shareholders' funds
£297,950
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1994-04-28
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts · was 6 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 19 Cecil Court, London, United Kingdom, WC2N 4EZ
- Postcode
- WC2N 4EZ
- Capital
- 231,913 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 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
- 2026-02-14
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 58110 Book publishing
Officers 2 current · 13 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by TENDERTHEORY LIMITED — since 2021-11-22
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- johnhuntpublishing.com
An independent publisher with sales teams worldwide welcoming new authors and unsolicited manuscript submissions. Book publisher submissions.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| JOHN HUNT PUBLISHING LIMITED | 2023-05-05 |
| HUNT & THORPE LIMITED | 1999-05-10 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LAUREL HOUSE STATION APPROACH, ALRESFORD, HAMPSHIRE, SO24 9JH | 2017-09-26 |
| DEERSHOT LODGE, PARK LANE ROPLEY, ALRESFORD, HAMPSHIRE, SO24 0BE | 2010-09-10 |
| THE BOTHY DEERSHOT LODGE, PARK LANE, ROPLEY, HAMPSHIRE SO24 0BE | 2007-09-10 |
| HARTLAND HOUSE, 26 WINCHESTER STREET, BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE RG21 7GU | 1999-05-10 |
| BOWLAND HOUSE, OFF WEST STREET, ALRESFORD, HAMPSHIRE SO24 9AT | 1996-03-18 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 418 similar companies in WC
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (5 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1994.
Competitors London
This company ranks 14 among book publishing in London.
The class of 1994
46%
of the 28,890 companies incorporated in 1994 are still active today; 50% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.