DISPLAYDATA LIMITED
Company number 03929602 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Displaydata Limited presents a high-risk investment profile characterised by deeply negative shareholders' funds of approximately £140m, a deteriorating net liability position, and a swing from EBITDA profit to loss. The company's continuation as a going concern is entirely dependent on continued shareholder loan support, with $8m in shareholder loans extended to December 2026. While venture capital backing, gross margin improvement, and strategic initiatives (including a planned acquisition) offer some reassurance, the fundamental solvency position, revenue decline, and operational leverage present material concerns that require significant further investigation before any investment commitment.
Shareholders' funds
-£140,025,165
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the Group remains the development and sale of dynamic digital display solutions incorporating fully graphic electronic shelf labels (ESLs) and centralised management systems.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-02-21
- Employees
- 45 (2024 accounts · was 47 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Fourth Floor Abbots House, Abbey Street, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, RG1 3BD
- Postcode
- RG1 3BD
- Capital
- 8,561,870 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-02
- Next due by
- 2027-03-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 72190 Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Officers 3 current · 32 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by ESPRIT NOMINEES LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB692816 (Tier 2), registered since 2024.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- displaydata.co.uk
Digital price tag ESLs with the clearest, brightest, sharpest, and most color-consistent available. Easy to scale and fast to roll out. Leading ESL deployments with the world’s largest retailers.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ZBD DISPLAYS LIMITED | 2014-01-10 |
| FORAY 1293 LIMITED | 2000-08-04 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 5 COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 3AL | 2000-09-20 |
| 115 COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 3AL | 2000-09-20 |
Among its peers
3rd largest employer
of 49 similar companies in RG, with 45 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Reading
This company ranks 66 among other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering in Reading.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,534 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% 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
- 2022-06-27
- Where
- Wokingham
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BK522291 | Wokingham | Leasehold | 2022-06-27 | — |
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