CRYSTAL PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

Company number 03192761 ·

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Executive summary

Crystal Publications Limited presents a mixed picture: the 2026 recovery from near-insolvency in 2025 is encouraging, but the company remains thinly capitalised with only £2,556 in net assets and a director's loan of £5,487 that exceeds equity and carries no repayment terms. The dramatic volatility in net assets over the past decade, combined with the lack of income statement detail due to abridged filing, makes it difficult to assess underlying trading viability. The director's loan is the most significant concern — it represents an extraction of value that, if not repaid, would render the company insolvent.

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Shareholders' funds

£2,556

Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1996-04-30
Employees
1 (2026 accounts)
Registered office
207 Knutsford Road Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA4 2QL
Postcode
WA4 2QL
Capital
100 GBP
Accounts category
Unaudited Abridged

Accounts

Last made up to
2026-03-31
Next due by
2027-12-31
Financial year end
31 March

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-03-13
Next due by
2027-03-27
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 58190 Other publishing activities

Officers 2 current · 7 resigned

CONTRACT PUBLISHER Appointed 2000-12-03
Appointed 1996-04-30

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Previous company names

NameDate changed
CENTREPOINT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED1997-07-25
CRYSTAL PUBLICATIONS LIMITED1997-07-09

Previous registered addresses 3

AddressChanged on
22 WALTON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6NL2010-09-06
LONDON HOUSE, 29 LONDON ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA4 6SG2004-07-07
372 OLD STREET, LONDON, EC1V 9LT1996-05-14

Among its peers

2nd oldest

of 50 similar companies in WA, trading since 1996

No.17 of the largest other publishing activities companies in Warrington →

656 companies are registered at this postcode →

Competitors Warrington

This company ranks 17 among other publishing activities in Warrington.

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The class of 1996

45%

of the 41,235 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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