DISTRIBUTOR LIMITED

Company number 04719480 ·

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Executive summary

Distributor Limited, despite its SIC classification as a non-specialised wholesaler, functions as a passive group entity rather than an active market participant. Its balance sheet is dominated by inter-company balances, it carries no inventory, employs only its director, and has seen total assets collapse by 94% from £4.19M (2021) to £168k (2024). The fully impaired £150k LLP investment and critically low cash position of £7.4k further indicate this is not a trading business in any conventional wholesale sense. The company's competitive position is effectively non-existent within the sector — it appears to be a group restructuring vehicle in terminal decline, with its remaining value concentrated in an inter-company receivable owed by its parent, Survival of the Fittest Limited.

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Shareholders' funds

£136,200

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
2003-04-01
Employees
1 (2025 accounts)
Registered office
Unit 1 The Pavilions, Ruscombe Business Park, Reading, Berkshire, England, RG10 9NN
Postcode
RG10 9NN
Capital
1,000 GBP
Accounts category
Small
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-07-03
Next due by
2027-07-17
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 46900 Non-specialised wholesale trade

Officers 2 current · 1 resigned

Subscribers only Secretary
Subscribers only Appointed 2003-04-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2003-04-01

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Group structure

Controlled by SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST LIMITED — since 2024-06-28

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z3011788 (Tier 2), registered since 2012.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Previous registered addresses 3

AddressChanged on
C/O CHOICE ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED INDIGO HOUSE, MULBERRY BUSINESS PARK, FISHPONDS ROAD, WOKINGHAM, RG41 2GY, UNITED KINGDOM2014-01-27
5 CURFEW YARD, THAMES STREET, WINDSOR, SL4 1SN2013-06-21
GORE ROAD, SLOUGH, SL1 8AB2004-05-06

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 279 similar companies in RG, trading since 2003

Competitors Reading

This company ranks 58 among non-specialised wholesale trade in Reading.

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The class of 2003

35%

of the 722 companies in this sector incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 62% have since been dissolved.

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

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