DAVID TAYLOR (BUILDING CONTRACTOR) LIMITED
Company number 00892040 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
David Taylor (Building Contractor) Limited is a legacy family construction firm whose 58-year local market presence and owned property assets provide a defensible niche position, but whose financial trajectory raises serious strategic concerns. The 75% cash depletion in FY2024, despite successful deleveraging, signals potential operational stress that must be urgently diagnosed—whether from revenue decline, cost overruns, or deliberate capital restructuring. The company stands at an inflection point: without strategic intervention around liquidity management, succession planning, and niche positioning, its long-standing market position risks erosion against better-capitalized competitors in an increasingly demanding construction landscape.
Shareholders' funds
£58,880
Balance sheet as at 2021-07-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is building contractors
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1966-11-16
- Employees
- 5 (2024 accounts · was 3 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 117 Maldon Road, Tiptree, Essex, CO5 0PG
- Postcode
- CO5 0PG
- Capital
- 152 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-07-31
- Next due by
- 2026-10-30
- Financial year end
- 30 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-17
- Next due by
- 2027-03-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43290 Other construction installation
Officers 4 current · 3 resigned
Public contracts won 1
£44,000 total awarded value where published.
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Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 190 similar companies in CO
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (5 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1966.
Competitors Colchester
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4. EFAM AIR LTD
This company ranks 42 among other construction installation in Colchester.
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