FRAIKIN LIMITED
Company number 01350718 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Fraikin Limited operates as the UK arm of a major European commercial vehicle leasing group, demonstrating top-line resilience with 4.2% revenue growth but struggling fundamentally with operational profitability and liquidity. While the business benefits from group scale and intercompany financial support, its exceptionally thin gross margins, widening operating losses, and severely depleted cash reserves highlight a business model under significant inflationary and interest rate pressure. The UK entity is heavily reliant on parent company funding to sustain its working capital position, making its competitive viability entirely dependent on continued group-level financial backing.
Shareholders' funds
£22,405,082
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year continued to be the provision of outsourced fleet management, short term rental, and long-term contract hire in relation to commercial vehicles, as well as carrying out fleet services on behalf of Fraikin Assets UK for which it receives management fees.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-01-31
- Employees
- 223 (2024 accounts · was 220 in 2023)
- Registered office
- CV3 4FJ, First Floor, 2m Middlemarch Business Park, Siskin Drive, Coventry, United Kingdom, CV3 4FJ
- Postcode
- CV3 4FJ
- Capital
- 21,500,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2026-02-21
- Next due by
- 2027-03-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 77120 Renting and leasing of trucks and other heavy vehicles
Officers 2 current · 34 resigned
Public contracts won 2
£34,511,836 total awarded value where published.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (Worker (A rating)), Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2025 (period to 2024-12-31) — 2 years on the registry.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA272294 (Tier 3), registered since 2017.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
23.8%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2022/23
Contact details
- Website
- fraikin.co.uk
- Phone
- +447987654321, 002292700, 0800 052 4455
European leader in Vehicle Hire for professionals. On-board telematics, fleet maintenance and servicing with Fraikin.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| PONDHURST LIMITED | 1978-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| FRAIKIN HOUSE TORWOOD CLOSE, WESTWOOD BUSINESS PARK, COVENTRY, WEST MIDLANDS, CV4 8HX | 2018-04-26 |
| FIRST FLOOR UNIT 5K, LANGLEY BUSINESS CENTRE, 11-49 STATION ROAD LANGLEY, SLOUGH SL3 8DS | 2006-05-12 |
| SALISBURY HOUSE, LONDON WALL, LONDON EC2M 5TA | 1997-08-27 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 14 similar companies in CV
The largest employer among its local peers (223 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1978.
Competitors Coventry
This company ranks 1 among renting and leasing of trucks and other heavy vehicles in Coventry.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2019-10-08
- Where
- West Midlands (1), Warwickshire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM131822 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2019-10-08 | — |
| WK495477 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2018-02-05 | — |
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