CTS (SHOPFITTING) LIMITED
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Executive summary
CTS (Shopfitting) Limited is a scaled, cash-generative specialist fit-out contractor with genuine competitive assets — blue-chip client relationships, self-delivered joinery capability and a deep management bench — but it is currently converting strong revenue growth into declining profit, with pre-tax margin falling from 2.87% to 1.97% in two years as overhead outpaces gross profit. The strategic imperative is to shift from volume-led growth to margin-led growth: industrialise delivery through offsite manufacturing, convert project work into framework annuity, diversify into non-discretionary end markets, and retain earnings to build an equity base proportionate to £60M of turnover. Executed with discipline, the same client franchise that delivered 21% annual revenue growth can deliver a durable double-digit return — but only if pricing discipline and overhead productivity are treated as board-level priorities rather than operational ones.
Shareholders' funds
£2,688,473
Balance sheet as at 2026-02-28
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of Shopfitters, Commercial, Retail & Construction fit out contractors.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-01-06
- Employees
- 117 (2026 accounts · was 114 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Princes House, Wright Street, Hull, HU2 8HX
- Postcode
- HU2 8HX
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-02-28
- Next due by
- 2027-11-30
- Financial year end
- 28 February
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-06
- Next due by
- 2027-01-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43320 Joinery installation
Officers 7 current · 6 resigned
Public contracts won 2
£82,459 total awarded value where published.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB722204 (Tier 2), registered since 2024.
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Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 131 similar companies in HU
The largest employer among its local peers (117 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1998.
No.1 of the largest joinery installation companies in Hull →
Competitors Hull
This company ranks 1 among joinery installation in Hull.
The class of 1998
42%
of the 55,900 companies incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
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