INN GEAR LIMITED
Company number 01954590 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Inn Gear Limited is a well-established medium-sized hospitality furniture manufacturer that has successfully grown turnover to approximately £14M, outperforming the broadly flat UK furniture manufacturing sector average. However, the company faces a concerning erosion of its equity base, with shareholders' funds declining 60% over the past decade to £599k, alongside a sharply reduced cash position — signalling either sustained margin compression from input cost inflation or significant capital extraction by its parent company. While the firm's scale, specialisation, and longevity provide competitive advantages in the hospitality contract furniture niche, its thin balance sheet buffers leave it vulnerable to any further softening of the post-pandemic hospitality investment cycle.
Shareholders' funds
£599,225
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the supply and fixing of bric-a-brac, furniture and fixed seating to pubs, hotels and restaurants.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1985-11-05
- Employees
- 136 (2025 accounts · was 128 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 7 Whaddon Business Park, Whaddon, Salisbury, England, SP5 3HF
- Postcode
- SP5 3HF
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- 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
- 2026-08-01
- Next due by
- 2027-08-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 31090 Manufacture of other furniture
Officers 3 current · 2 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BUTSON AND NORRINGTON 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 — ZA365770 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- inngear.co.uk
- Phone
- 01722 711 333
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CLEARTRY LIMITED | 1985-11-27 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SOUTH VIEW FARM, BRAMSHAW, LYNDHURST, HAMPSHIRE, SO43 7JL | 2016-08-10 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 28 similar companies in SP
The largest employer among its local peers (136 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1985.
No.3 of the largest manufacture of other furniture companies in Salisbury →
Competitors Salisbury
This company ranks 3 among manufacture of other furniture in Salisbury.
The class of 1985
49%
of the 15,385 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.