GERDA SECURITY PRODUCTS LIMITED
Company number 03456399 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gerda Security Products Limited presents a medium-risk investment opportunity with a compelling turnaround narrative, having recovered from negative equity of £-1.03m in 2014 to net assets of £4.66m by 2025. The company benefits from a clean audit opinion, recent favourable refinancing with HSBC, and improving EBITDA, though concerns remain regarding high leverage (74% debt-to-asset ratio), declining turnover, and thin profit margins that offer limited buffer against sector headwinds. Further due diligence should focus on debt covenant terms, working capital quality, and the financial position of the parent company, Gerda Security Holdings Limited.
Shareholders' funds
£4,661,049
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the supply of high quality fire doors and associated products and services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-10-28
- Employees
- 127 (2025 accounts · was 131 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 54 Chiswick Avenue, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, England, IP28 7AY
- Postcode
- IP28 7AY
- Capital
- 20,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-28
- Next due by
- 2027-11-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 96090 Other service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 8 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by GERDA SECURITY HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 11
£1,136,680,574 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 11.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7931011 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- gerdasecurity.co.uk
- Phone
- 01638 711 028, 01638 711028, 08517926623
Gerda Security Products, is the leading British manufacturer of high specification fire doorsets and emergency access systems for over 25 years. Our IP drives innovation towards a safer built environment.
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 53-54 CHISWICK AVENUE, MILDENHALL, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, IP28 7AY | 2019-01-02 |
| 80 GUILDHALL STREET, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, IP33 1QB | 2012-11-21 |
| 6-8 UNDERWOOD STREET, LONDON, N1 7JQ | 2011-07-14 |
| CRWYS HOUSE 33 CRWYS ROAD, CARDIFF, CF24 4YF | 2003-10-31 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 735 similar companies in IP
2nd largest employer among its local peers (127 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
No.4 of the largest other service activities not elsewhere classified companies in Ipswich →
Competitors Ipswich
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5. KDW DN LTD
This company ranks 4 among other service activities not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.
The class of 1997
38%
of the 1,228 companies in this sector incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2022-03-17
- Where
- Suffolk (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK414553 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2022-03-17 | — |
| SK403838 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2020-09-29 | — |
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