SELECTIVE MARKETPLACE LIMITED
Company number 01566688 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
SELECTIVE MARKETPLACE LIMITED is a strong credit with a robust balance sheet, growing profitability, and excellent liquidity. The company's conservative financial management and substantial net assets provide significant capacity to service debt. Approval is recommended for standard credit facilities.
Shareholders' funds
£33,430,246
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the group in the year under review was that of mail order retailing.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1981-06-08
- Employees
- 182 (2023 accounts · was 168 in 2022)
- Registered office
- 2 Rothley Lodge Loughborough Road, Rothley, Leicester, England, LE7 7NL
- Postcode
- LE7 7NL
- Capital
- 800,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 8 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
- 2026-10-26
- Next due by
- 2027-11-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47710 Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
- 47910 Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Officers 4 current · 3 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6326618 (Tier 2), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 1
£10,000 in registered political donations since 2017.
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Liberal Democrats
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.selective.co.uk
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LARKWOOD LIMITED | 1981-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BELTON ROAD WEST, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE11 5XL | 2019-12-10 |
| UNIT 2 CROSSLINK 646, ROTHLEY LODGE COMMERCIAL PARK, ROTHLEY, LEICESTER, LE7 7LS, ENGLAND | 2019-12-10 |
| MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 1A CRANMER ST, NOTTS | 1986-09-04 |
| BELTON ROAD WEST EXTENSION, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE11 OXL | 1986-08-29 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 210 similar companies in LE
The largest employer among its local peers (182 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1981.
No.1 of the largest retail sale of clothing in specialised stores companies in Leicester →
Competitors Leicester
This company ranks 1 among retail sale of clothing in specialised stores in Leicester.
The class of 1981
65%
of the 14,484 companies incorporated in 1981 are still active today; 29% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 7 titles
- Freehold
- 4
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2024-09-16
- Price paid, where recorded
- £9,452,000
- Where
- Greater London (6), Leicestershire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGL237457 | Greater London | Freehold | 2024-09-16 | £2,250,000 |
| 427673 | Greater London | Freehold | 2023-03-14 | £2,200,000 |
| BGL169739 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2022-05-11 | — |
| NGL474070 | Greater London | Freehold | 2021-04-06 | £2,800,000 |
| NGL987420 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2019-05-07 | — |
| LT510163 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2019-02-28 | £2,202,000 |
| BGL115969 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2015-07-30 | — |
For addresses and the authoritative register entry, use HM Land Registry's official search (£3 per title).
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