D. E. ALEXANDER & SONS, LIMITED
Company number NI001942 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
D. E. Alexander & Sons stands at a strategic inflection point: its heritage brand, property assets, and group affiliations provide a foundation for transformation, but deteriorating working capital, structural industry decline, and concentrated inter-company liabilities create urgent financial vulnerability. The path forward requires decisive action on three fronts—monetising property assets to restore liquidity, accelerating digital revenue development to offset print decline, and renegotiating group financial arrangements to reduce dependency risk—lest this 80-year-old enterprise becomes another casualty of the sector's consolidation wave.
Shareholders' funds
£807,023
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1945-09-03
- Employees
- 34 (2025 accounts · was 25 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 91 Main Street, Bangor, Co.Down, BT20 4AF
- Postcode
- BT20 4AF
- Capital
- 6,985 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-20
- Next due by
- 2026-10-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 58130 Publishing of newspapers
Officers 5 current · 1 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZC224729 (Tier 2), registered since 2026.
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Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 20 similar companies in BT
2nd largest employer among its local peers (34 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1945.
Competitors Belfast
This company ranks 4 among publishing of newspapers in Belfast.