PREMIER FOREST PRODUCTS LIMITED
Company number 02797766 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Premier Forest Products is a resilient, diversified UK timber group with £92m company turnover, £102.3m consolidated sales, and £18.2m net assets, but FY25 margin compression and a £0.7m pre-tax loss reveal cyclical and integration pressures. Its competitive moat rests on scale, import/processing capability, UKTR-compliant supply chains, and acquisitive expansion into higher-value engineered timber and joinery. The strategic imperative is to restore margins through integration synergies, value-added mix, and working-capital discipline while continuing disciplined bolt-on M&A.
Shareholders' funds
£18,163,561
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of importing and distributing timber and timber-based products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1993-03-09
- Employees
- 312 (2025 accounts · was 297 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Premier Forest Products West Way Road, Alexandra Dock, Newport, NP20 2PQ
- Postcode
- NP20 2PQ
- Capital
- 349,998 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 5 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
- 2026-03-09
- Next due by
- 2027-03-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46730 Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment
Officers 11 current · 10 resigned
Group structure 13 subsidiaries
Controlled by PREMIER FOREST GROUP LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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JEFFREY WALKER LIMITED Dissolved
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KERNOW TIMBER LIMITED Dissolved
Showing 12 of 13.
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 2
£89,404 total awarded value where published.
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Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2026-04-30) — 7 years on the registry.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA845387 (Tier 3), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
9.09%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 18 GOLD TOPS, NEWPORT, SOUTH WALES, NP20 5WJ | 2009-11-18 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y OHP | 1993-03-16 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 10 similar companies in NP
The largest employer among its local peers (312 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1993.
Competitors Newport
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment in Newport.
The class of 1993
48%
of the 25,072 companies incorporated in 1993 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 10 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 9
- Most recent registration
- 2025-11-06
- Where
- Newport (4), Cardiff (1), Tyne And Wear (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CYM916393 | Newport | Leasehold | 2025-11-06 | — |
| CYM878801 | Newport | Leasehold | 2023-11-13 | — |
| CYM877708 | Cardiff | Leasehold | 2023-10-24 | — |
| CYM877711 | Newport | Leasehold | 2023-10-24 | — |
| TY595304 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2023-02-06 | — |
| WA786830 | Pembrokeshire | Freehold | 2022-08-08 | — |
| CL318845 | Cornwall | Leasehold | 2015-11-09 | — |
| CYM634782 | Caerphilly | Leasehold | 2014-11-28 | — |
| MM27211 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2013-11-13 | — |
| CYM432904 | Newport | Leasehold | 2009-01-16 | — |
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