QUATTRO PLANT LIMITED
Company number 02400439 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Quattro Plant Limited is an established mid-tier specialist in the UK rail infrastructure plant hire market, with over 35 years of operating history and a fleet valued at £48.1m at in-situ fair value. However, the company is experiencing significant profitability compression — operating margins have fallen from 9.92% to 2.88% year-on-year, substantially below typical sector benchmarks of 8-12% for well-run specialist plant operators. The strategic disposal of AB2000 and refinancing with PNC on improved terms signal a deliberate refocusing on core rail operations and improved funding flexibility, but the thin cash position and technically insolvent balance sheet on historical cost basis present material vulnerabilities if trading conditions do not stabilise within the current Network Rail CP7 cycle.
Shareholders' funds
£14,773,724
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-01
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1989-07-03
- Employees
- 213 (2024 accounts · was 222 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Greenway Court Canning Road, Stratford, London, E15 3ND
- Postcode
- E15 3ND
- Capital
- 628,593 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 7 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-01
- Next due by
- 2026-11-30
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-09
- Next due by
- 2027-08-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by QUATTRO GROUP LIMITED — since 2018-09-28
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KINGSNORTH LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6781376 (Tier 2), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- quattroplant.co.uk
- Phone
- 01235 910 813, 01284 897 010, 01284897010
Quattro Group a multi-disciplined plant hire business, including a Rail, enviromental, transport division and QOTA training, Operating for Over 30 years we are an industry leading firm, with innovative technologies and solutions.
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LANGLEY HOUSE, PARK ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY, LONDON, N2 8EX | 2011-11-03 |
| 23 EIGHTH AVENUE, MANOR PARK, LONDON, E12 5JN | 1995-11-10 |
| 23 EIGHTH AVENUE, MANOR PARK, LONDON, E12 5JN | 1990-05-01 |
| 119 GEORGE V AVENUE, WORTHING, SUSSEX, BN11 5SA | 1989-08-22 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 746 similar companies in E
The largest employer among its local peers (213 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1989.
Competitors London
This company ranks 1 among other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified in London.
The class of 1989
41%
of the 223 companies in this sector incorporated in 1989 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 7 titles
- Leasehold
- 7
- Most recent registration
- 2025-04-28
- Where
- Medway (1), Devon (1), Kent (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT179438 | Medway | Leasehold | 2025-04-28 | — |
| DN757868 | Devon | Leasehold | 2023-03-14 | — |
| TT140287 | Kent | Leasehold | 2022-05-25 | — |
| EX992062 | Essex | Leasehold | 2019-07-08 | — |
| CYM775363 | Torfaen | Leasehold | 2019-06-13 | — |
| HD564673 | Hertfordshire | Leasehold | 2017-06-07 | — |
| SK347731 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2013-07-24 | — |
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