RED HOT PRODUCTS LIMITED
Company number 06831515 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Red Hot Products is a debt-free, family-owned fragrance and cosmetics wholesaler that has compounded net assets at roughly 35% annually since 2016 to reach £7.4M entirely through retained profit — a genuinely resilient and unusually profitable distribution model. Its £4.8M cash position is simultaneously its greatest asset and its greatest strategic question, as the FY2025 profit plateau signals that the next phase of value creation depends on disciplined capital deployment — acquisition, vertical integration, or category expansion — rather than organic accumulation. The priority risks to manage are wholesale disintermediation, inventory exposure, and key-person concentration, all addressable with the financial firepower already on hand.
Shareholders' funds
£7,383,780
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2009-02-27
- Employees
- 30 (2025 accounts · was 31 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 1 Jacks Way, Hill Barton Business Park, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom, EX5 1FG
- Postcode
- EX5 1FG
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-02-19
- Next due by
- 2027-03-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46450 Wholesale of perfume and cosmetics
Officers 2 current · 1 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by RED HOT HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2021-02-25
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB524893 (Tier 2), registered since 2023.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 5 BARNFIELD CRESCENT, EXETER, EX1 1RF | 2016-01-20 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 8 similar companies in EX
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (30 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2009.
Competitors Exeter
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2. ALLKYN LTD
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of perfume and cosmetics in Exeter.
The class of 2009
21%
of the 315,105 companies incorporated in 2009 are still active today; 78% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2015-12-15
- Price paid, where recorded
- £680,000
- Where
- Devon
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DN665159 | Devon | Freehold | 2015-12-15 | £680,000 |
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