BENNETTS CRANES LIMITED
Company number 06779103 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bennetts Cranes Limited presents a fundamentally sound financial constitution with net assets of £11.5M and healthy liquidity, but is exhibiting concerning symptoms of margin compression and revenue decline. The 12.3% turnover drop and 27.3% net profit decline require urgent diagnostic investigation to determine whether these reflect temporary market conditions or structural challenges. With improved gross margins suggesting underlying operational strength, the prognosis is cautiously positive provided management addresses debtor collection, administrative cost inflation, and fleet utilisation efficiency.
Shareholders' funds
£11,478,258
Balance sheet as at 2022-03-31
What it does
The Company under the stewardship of its founder and managing director Edward Seager, still embodies its core value in ensuring it provides a highly professional and personalised level of service to each of its clients. The vision of the Directors and staff of the Company is to lead the constantly changing industry with technological advances that allow and enhance its services, thereby ensuring the creation of a world class service for its customers together with a healthy, happy, safe and positive workplace for its employees. The Company has continued investment in the crane fleet, people and infrasructure. In particular a substantial increase has been made in additional spare parts so that we can promptly respond to any needed repairs for customers. This investment has been expensed because it is an additional cost which will not genrate any extra revenue, but to simply improve the quality of our services.This strategy has led to modernisation of the fleet in the current year.The ov
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2008-12-23
- Employees
- 37 (2022 accounts · was 35 in 2021)
- Registered office
- Burma Road, Sharpness, Gloucester, Glos, GL13 9UQ
- Postcode
- GL13 9UQ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-30
- Financial year end
- 30 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-10
- Next due by
- 2026-10-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 77390 Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 3 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA815814 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
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Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| PARADE HOUSE 135 THE PARADE, WATFORD, WD17 1NA | 2009-04-15 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 58 similar companies in GL
The largest employer among its local peers (37 staff).
Trading since 2008.
Competitors Cheltenham
This company ranks 1 among renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified in Cheltenham.
The class of 2008
41%
of the 242 companies in this sector incorporated in 2008 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2018-02-16
- Where
- Gloucestershire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR422431 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2018-02-16 | — |
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