ANCHOR VANS LTD.
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Shareholders' funds
£6,173,282
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1989-11-24
- Employees
- 71 (2025 accounts · was 64 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Anchor House Bath Road, Padworth, Reading, RG7 5JF
- Postcode
- RG7 5JF
- Capital
- 200 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-03
- Next due by
- 2027-06-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45112 Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles
- 45200 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
- 45320 Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Officers 5 current · 4 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
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ANCHOR PROPERTY GROUP LTD Dissolved
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PADWORTH PROPERTIES LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 4
£256,741 total awarded value where published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6933716 (Tier 2), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- anchorvans.co.uk
- Phone
- 07836278544
Anchor Vans supply quality used vans nationwide. All vans are available with free delivery and our “No Quibble Money Back Promise on Delivery”
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ANCHOR LEASING & FINANCE LIMITED | 2012-04-14 |
| FINNTON LIMITED | 1990-02-19 |
Previous registered addresses 9
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ANCHOR HOUSE BATH ROAD, PADWORTH, READING, BERKSHIRE, RG7 5JF | 2015-05-27 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE ANCHOR VANS LTD, BATH ROAD, PADWORTH, BERKSHIRE, RG7 5HT, ENGLAND | 2013-05-07 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE ANCHOR VANS, BATH ROAD, PADWORTH, BERKSHIRE, RG7 5HT, ENGLAND | 2012-06-06 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE ANCHOR LEASING & FINANCE LTD, ANCHOR BUSINESS PK BATH RD, PADWORTH, BERKSHIRE, RG7 5JE | 2012-06-06 |
| THE OLD DAIRY, 28 MULFORDS HILL, TADLEY BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE, RG26 3JE | 2009-06-11 |
| THE OLD DAIRY, 28 MULFORDS HILL, TADLEY, RG26 3JE | 1997-07-23 |
| UNIT 40, YOUNGS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PAICES HILL, ALDERMASTON READING RG7 4PQ | 1997-01-21 |
| MORTIMER HILL OFFICES, THE STREET, MORTIMER HILL, MORTIMER READING RG7 4EH | 1991-03-01 |
| 110 WHITCHURCH ROAD, CARDIFF, CF4 3LY | 1990-02-23 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 289 similar companies in RG
The largest employer among its local peers (71 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1989.
No.1 of the largest sale of used cars and light motor vehicles companies in Reading →
Competitors Reading
This company ranks 1 among sale of used cars and light motor vehicles in Reading.
The class of 1989
50%
of the 21,096 companies incorporated in 1989 are still active today; 44% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2022-04-21
- Price paid, where recorded
- £1,300,000
- Where
- West Berkshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BK432310 | West Berkshire | Freehold | 2022-04-21 | — |
| BK151088 | West Berkshire | Freehold | 2006-02-22 | £1,300,000 |
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