{"name":"ETCH-IT LTD","company_number":"04938769","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2003-10-21","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"33 Hopps Road, Kingswood, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS15 9QQ","postcode":"BS15 9QQ","sic_codes":[{"code":32990,"description":"Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Unaudited Abridged","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":{"count":1,"accounts_date":"2025-12-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-12-31","net_assets":717,"cash":505,"average_employees":1},{"financial_date":"2024-12-31","net_assets":1135,"average_employees":1},{"financial_date":"2023-12-31","net_assets":644,"average_employees":1},{"financial_date":"2022-12-31","net_assets":335},{"financial_date":"2021-12-31","net_assets":389,"cash":1288}],"officers":{"current":2,"resigned":1,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"ETCH-IT LTD is a long-established micro-manufacturer in the engraving/etching niche of the \"other manufacturing\" sector, where 22 years of continuous trading demonstrates genuine niche durability despite the industry's high failure rates. However, its financial position is fragile relative to sector norms: equity of just £717 against a £63k balance sheet, almost no cash, and a debtor book implying collection cycles far beyond the 45–60 day manufacturing average leave no buffer against bad debts or demand shocks. The business is best characterised as a viable lifestyle-scale operator with strong survival credentials but minimal financial resilience and no visible reinvestment to counter intensifying technology-driven competition.","website":"http://www.etch-it.co.uk","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/etch-it","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/etch-it/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/etch-it/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04938769","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/etch-it/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/etch-it/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/etch-it/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/etch-it"}