BRETTS TRANSPORT LIMITED
Company number 00348022 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bretts Transport Limited presents a mixed credit profile: the business demonstrates encouraging improvement in profitability and balance sheet strength, with operating margins more than doubling and net assets nearly doubling over four years. However, the critically depleted cash position of £53 at year-end, combined with a £132,000 dividend payment made on the same date, raises serious concerns about liquidity management and financial stewardship. Credit approval is recommended on a conditional basis, with restrictions on further dividends, minimum cash balance requirements, and enhanced monitoring of the invoice discounting facility that appears to be funding day-to-day operations.
Shareholders' funds
£1,372,311
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the provision of haulage and distribution services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1939-01-04
- Employees
- 103 (2025 accounts · was 107 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Thorney Road, Guyhirn, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 4AG
- Postcode
- PE13 4AG
- Capital
- 1,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2026-07-14
- Next due by
- 2027-07-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49410 Freight transport by road
Officers 5 current · 5 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z3445561 (Tier 1), registered since 2013.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- brettstransport.co.uk
- Phone
- 01733 848902, 01733 848908, 01733 848915
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 2 THE CRESCENT, WISBECH, CAMBS, PE13 1EH | 1988-02-18 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,671 similar companies in PE
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (103 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1939.
Competitors Peterborough
This company ranks 28 among freight transport by road in Peterborough.