CED LIMITED
Company number 00624843 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
CED LIMITED is a long-established specialist stone merchant currently experiencing significant financial distress, with a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern flagged by its auditor. The company has sustained substantial losses in 2024 and 2025, largely depleted the cash proceeds from a 2023 property sale, and is now dependent on a £1.7M working capital facility secured in November 2025. While the business retains positive net assets of £3.58M, has implemented cost reductions, and directors forecast a near-breakeven position in 2026, recovery is contingent on market conditions improving in the UK construction and landscaping sectors and on maintaining compliance with facility covenants.
Shareholders' funds
£3,579,615
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1959-04-03
- Employees
- 83 (2024 accounts · was 79 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 2 Purdeys Way, Rochford, Essex, England, SS4 1NE
- Postcode
- SS4 1NE
- Capital
- 25 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-30
- Financial year end
- 30 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-12
- Next due by
- 2027-05-26
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46130 Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials
Officers 6 current · 9 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) — 4 years on the registry.
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 — ZA175458 (Tier 1), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.cedltd.org
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CIVIL ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED | 2000-01-07 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 30 similar companies in SS
2nd largest employer among its local peers (83 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1959.
Competitors Basildon
This company ranks 2 among agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials in Basildon.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2018-02-26
- Where
- Greater London (1), Cheshire West And Chester (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGL437263 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-02-26 | — |
| CH656667 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2017-03-01 | — |
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