{"name":"CAMPBELLS LIMITED","company_number":"00562376","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1956-03-08","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Watkin Lane, Lostock Hall, Preston, PR5 5RD","postcode":"PR5 5RD","sic_codes":[{"code":45111,"description":"Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles"},{"code":47799,"description":"Retail sale of other second-hand goods in stores (not incl. antiques)"}],"principal_activity":"The company's principal activity during the year continued to be that of the retail of touring caravans, motorhomes, awnings and accessories and the service and repair of the touring caravans and motor homes.","previous_names":[{"name":"CAMPBELLS CARAVANS LIMITED","changed_on":"1999-07-15"},{"name":"GORDON'S CARAVANS LIMITED","changed_on":"1980-12-31"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":{"count":30,"accounts_date":"2025-12-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-12-31","net_assets":1541993,"cash":2138,"average_employees":30},{"financial_date":"2024-12-31","net_assets":1825513,"cash":2138,"average_employees":34},{"financial_date":"2023-12-31","turnover":25267852,"profit_loss":813708,"net_assets":2130798,"cash":141871,"average_employees":32},{"financial_date":"2022-12-31","turnover":23571626,"net_assets":1570527,"cash":40196},{"financial_date":"2021-12-31","net_assets":633115,"cash":1615}],"officers":{"current":5,"resigned":7,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":3,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Campbells Limited is a long-established, family-controlled caravan and motor vehicle retailer that remains balance-sheet solvent with net assets of £1.54m and low external gearing, but has depleted its reserves by approximately £589k over two consecutive loss-making years and holds effectively no cash, leaving near-term obligations dependent on the realisable value of £4.0m of stock. The overall risk is assessed as MEDIUM at the upper end of the band: the company is not at imminent risk of insolvency, but its financial cushion is thin, its asset base is highly concentrated in depreciable inventory, and the absence of filed profit and loss data for FY2024 and FY2025 materially limits visibility on trading performance. Priority due diligence should focus on obtaining management accounts, independently validating stock values, and clarifying the terms of the £162,000 annual related-party lease with the directors' pension scheme.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/campbells","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00562376","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/campbells/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/campbells"}