BEW ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£15,808,928
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activities of the company in the year under review were those of the wholesale and retail sale of electrical goods.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1983-03-01
- Employees
- 356 (2025 accounts · was 315 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 5, Northumberland Court, Dukes Park Industrial Estate, Chelmsford, Essex, England, CM2 6UW
- Postcode
- CM2 6UW
- Capital
- 107,664 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 6 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-27
- Financial year end
- 27 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-17
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46900 Non-specialised wholesale trade
Officers 5 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BEW ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED — since 2023-07-20
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2020 (period to 2020-02-01).
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z8063702 (Tier 3), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
7.7%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Phone
- 01245890292, 01245235507
Corporate website of BEW Electrical, UK's leading electrical distributor & electrical wholesaler. Huge Stock, fast delivery - find your local branch
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| BALHAM ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS LIMITED | 1997-05-06 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 1, THE KIMBER CENTRE, 54 KIMBER RD, LONDON, SW18 4PQ | 2016-08-14 |
| 67 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9AP | 1989-03-07 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 186 similar companies in CM
The largest employer among its local peers (356 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1983.
No.1 of the largest non-specialised wholesale trade companies in Chelmsford →
Competitors Chelmsford
This company ranks 1 among non-specialised wholesale trade in Chelmsford.
The class of 1983
51%
of the 13,141 companies incorporated in 1983 are still active today; 40% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 33 titles
- Freehold
- 6
- Leasehold
- 27
- Most recent registration
- 2025-05-12
- Where
- Greater London (9), Essex (6), Surrey (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT179952 | Kent | Leasehold | 2025-05-12 | — |
| WK543213 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2025-01-16 | — |
| LT550925 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2023-11-30 | — |
| SY897083 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2023-08-10 | — |
| SL281593 | Wrekin | Leasehold | 2023-03-29 | — |
| SL281594 | Wrekin | Leasehold | 2023-03-29 | — |
| AA48201 | Essex | Leasehold | 2022-10-06 | — |
| SY891074 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2022-04-12 | — |
| MM158125 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2021-07-29 | — |
| SH53360 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2019-10-31 | — |
| EX981782 | Essex | Freehold | 2018-12-11 | — |
| SGL791124 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-04-10 | — |
| WSX398004 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2018-03-12 | — |
| CB430310 | Cambridgeshire | Leasehold | 2018-02-07 | — |
| LT488323 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2017-02-07 | — |
| BD309118 | Bedford | Leasehold | 2016-09-01 | — |
| EX935453 | Essex | Leasehold | 2016-04-07 | — |
| EX935477 | Essex | Leasehold | 2016-04-07 | — |
| WK482296 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2016-01-13 | — |
| SY831260 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2015-10-27 | — |
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