FAB FRAMES (UK) LIMITED
Company number 03973695 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
FAB FRAMES (UK) Limited is a long-established Devon-based specialist manufacturer of plastic picture frames operating in the UK plastics converting sector, a fragmented market characterised by SME-scale producers facing input cost inflation, energy price pressures, and import competition. The company's balance sheet shows above-average financial resilience for its size class, with substantial cash reserves of £1.52M and no significant long-term debt, though three consecutive years of declining net assets — coupled with a near-doubling of short-term creditors — indicate margin pressure consistent with broader sector headwinds. The company's stable workforce, retained manufacturing capability, and conservative capital structure position it as a resilient mid-tier specialist, but the ageing tangible asset base and lack of visible profit metrics warrant monitoring to assess whether current trading conditions are eroding its competitive foundation.
Shareholders' funds
£1,295,531
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-04-14
- Employees
- 63 (2025 accounts · was 62 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 8 Silverhills Building, Silverhills Road, Decoy, Industrial E, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 5LZ
- Postcode
- TQ12 5LZ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-14
- Next due by
- 2027-10-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 22290 Manufacture of other plastic products
Officers 3 current · 2 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA048722 (Tier 1), registered since 2014.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- fabframes.net
- Phone
- 01626333556, 01626333713
Fabframes Ltd - Fabulous Quality at Affordable Prices. Fabframes Ltd are based in Newton Abbot, Devon. Specialist manufacturer of Optima.
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 17 similar companies in TQ
The largest employer among its local peers (63 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2000.
Competitors Newton Abbot
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of other plastic products in Newton Abbot.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,535 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.