CHARLES RANSFORD & SON LIMITED
Company number 01185122 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Charles Ransford & Son Limited presents a low-risk investment profile characterized by an exceptionally strong balance sheet, minimal leverage, and consistent net asset growth over a seven-year period. The primary areas of concern are a declining turnover trend (partially reversed in 2024) and high ownership concentration within the Evans family, which may limit minority investor influence. The company's substantial cash reserves of £12.6M against total liabilities of just £2.4M provide considerable financial resilience, though the rationale for such large cash holdings without deployment or distribution warrants further investigation.
Shareholders' funds
£36,049,286
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is saw mill and timber manufacturer.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1974-09-25
- Employees
- 56 (2024 accounts)
- Registered office
- The Sawmill, Station Rd, Bishops Castle, Salop, SY9 5AQ
- Postcode
- SY9 5AQ
- Capital
- 240,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-01
- Next due by
- 2027-05-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 16100 Sawmilling and planing of wood
Officers 7 current · 7 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB049102 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 9 similar companies in SY
The largest employer among its local peers (56 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1974.
Competitors Shrewsbury
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4. BLC LIMITED
This company ranks 1 among sawmilling and planing of wood in Shrewsbury.
The class of 1974
54%
of the 5,336 companies incorporated in 1974 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 26 titles
- Freehold
- 23
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2025-05-01
- Price paid, where recorded
- £604,000
- Where
- Shropshire (18), Powys (4), Devon (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CYM385086 | Powys | Freehold | 2025-05-01 | — |
| WA356574 | Powys | Freehold | 2025-05-01 | — |
| SL148593 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2024-05-13 | £460,000 |
| SL283964 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2023-09-11 | — |
| SL273746 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2021-11-04 | — |
| SL183736 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2020-03-03 | — |
| SL183737 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2020-03-03 | — |
| SL253537 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2020-03-03 | — |
| DN710230 | Devon | Freehold | 2019-02-25 | — |
| SL248257 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2017-09-04 | — |
| SL246223 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2017-05-17 | — |
| DN482517 | Devon | Freehold | 2016-02-01 | — |
| SL190885 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2014-09-23 | — |
| SL138766 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2012-10-10 | — |
| SL152553 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2009-06-04 | — |
| SL80578 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2008-03-07 | — |
| SL186564 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2007-08-08 | — |
| SL186343 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2007-07-27 | — |
| SL183739 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2007-03-13 | — |
| SL110872 | Shropshire | Freehold | 2002-02-26 | — |
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