LARSON-JUHL UK LIMITED
Company number 01196875 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Larson-Juhl UK Limited holds a market-leading position in the specialist picture framing wholesale sector, leveraging its global group backing and scale to maintain a 95% fill rate and healthy 7.3% net margins that outperform typical wholesale distribution benchmarks. However, three years of declining profitability, rising inventory days, and exposure to weak export markets and UK cost inflation (Employer NI, business rates) create headwinds that require continued operational discipline. The company's revenue stabilisation in the latest period, combined with strong balance sheet fundamentals and strategic digital investment, positions it to defend market share through the current cyclical downturn.
Shareholders' funds
£5,121,267
Balance sheet as at 2026-01-04
What it does
Larson-Juhl UK Limited distributes framing materials principally moulding, mountboard and ready made frames to bespoke and contract framers. Geographically the main market for the Company is the British Isles but the Company also exports to over 40 countries worldwide.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1975-01-17
- Employees
- 40 (2026 accounts · was 43 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 5 Bedford Logistics Park, Bell Farm Way, Kempston, Bedfordshire, England, MK43 9SS
- Postcode
- MK43 9SS
- Capital
- 4,584,998 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-01-04
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-28
- Next due by
- 2027-06-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46760 Wholesale of other intermediate products
Officers 3 current · 12 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by NORTHAMPTON ACQUISITION LTD — since 2023-09-27
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z468921X (Tier 1), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- larson-juhl.co.uk
- Phone
- 01234852777, 01234857488
Larson-Juhl is the UK’s largest picture framing supplier & wholesaler, offering a unique, high quality range of mouldings, mount boards and materials at competitive prices.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ARQADIA LIMITED | 2018-12-20 |
| ARQUATI(U.K.)LIMITED | 1998-09-14 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ARQADIA HOUSE 2 WOLSELEY ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 7AD, ENGLAND | 2020-08-18 |
| 2 WOLSELEY ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 7AD | 2018-12-21 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 30 similar companies in MK
2nd largest employer among its local peers (40 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1975.
No.2 of the largest wholesale of other intermediate products companies in Milton Keynes →
Competitors Milton Keynes
This company ranks 2 among wholesale of other intermediate products in Milton Keynes.
The class of 1975
51%
of the 5,878 companies incorporated in 1975 are still active today; 41% 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
- 2021-02-01
- Where
- Bedford (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD338390 | Bedford | Leasehold | 2021-02-01 | — |
| BD268271 | Bedford | Leasehold | 2009-04-09 | — |
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