CLOSE ENCOUNTERS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£136,743
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-05-13
- Employees
- 12 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- LEADERMANS, St Christophers House, Ridge Road, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 1PT
- Postcode
- SG6 1PT
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-31
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 31 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-13
- Next due by
- 2027-05-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47610 Retail sale of books in specialised stores
- 47650 Retail sale of games and toys in specialised stores
- 47910 Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA853976 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (BEDFORD) LIMITED | 2014-09-09 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ST MICHAELS HOUSE, NORTON WAY SOUTH, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG6 1NY | 2010-11-02 |
| 47-49 GREEN LANE, NORTHWOOD, MIDDLESEX HA6 3AE | 2004-05-27 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 9 similar companies in SG
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (12 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 2004.
Competitors Stevenage
This company ranks 2 among retail sale of books in specialised stores in Stevenage.
The class of 2004
37%
of the 135,820 companies incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 61% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2018-12-04
- Where
- West Northamptonshire (2), City Of Peterborough (1), Bedford (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CB438280 | City Of Peterborough | Leasehold | 2018-12-04 | — |
| BD314166 | Bedford | Leasehold | 2017-06-02 | — |
| NN301582 | West Northamptonshire | Leasehold | 2010-10-08 | — |
| NN301514 | West Northamptonshire | Leasehold | 2010-10-05 | — |
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