ALBERT GRAHAM LIMITED
Company number NI011444 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Albert Graham Limited is a long-established independent furniture retailer in Ballymena that has undergone a remarkable deleveraging journey, reducing total liabilities from over £2M to £333K over twelve years and building net assets exceeding £1M. However, this balance sheet strength masks operational concerns: the trading business appears loss-making based on declining retained earnings, cash reserves are perilously thin at under £5K, and the declining asset base suggests contraction rather than investment. The company benefits from property ownership and family stewardship, but faces the same structural headwinds affecting all independent furniture retailers — consumer confidence pressure, online competition, and margin compression — with insufficient working capital flexibility to respond aggressively.
Shareholders' funds
£1,054,508
Balance sheet as at 2021-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is retailing of furniture and furnishings
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1976-08-04
- Employees
- 0 (2026 accounts · was 9 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Bridgewater House, 1-5 Railway Street, Ballymena, BT42 2AA
- Postcode
- BT42 2AA
- Capital
- 8,500 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 11 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-25
- Next due by
- 2026-10-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47599 Retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store
Officers 4 current · 5 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA070503 (Tier 1), registered since 2014.
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Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 178 similar companies in BT
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (9 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1976.
Competitors Belfast
This company ranks 11 among retail of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised store in Belfast.
The class of 1976
51%
of the 7,066 companies incorporated in 1976 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.