HADDOW GROUP LIMITED
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Executive summary
Haddow Group Limited is a long-established but declining niche wholesaler operating in the structurally challenged UK textiles and home furnishings distribution sector. While the balance sheet retains adequate liquidity (current ratio of 1.97x) and the business benefits from a design-led proposition that differentiates it from pure commodity distributors, the sustained erosion of net assets — approximately £880k over two years — signals a business consuming its capital reserves rather than generating returns. The company's competitive position as a small, family-controlled regional wholesaler leaves it exposed to disintermediation, margin compression from inflation, and the ongoing consumer spending downturn that disproportionately impacts discretionary categories.
Shareholders' funds
£1,292,212
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the wholesale of household furnishings, importation & distribution of clothing and property management
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-05-15
- Employees
- 27 (2025 accounts · was 37 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Listers Mill, Heaton Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 4SH
- Postcode
- BD9 4SH
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-27
- Financial year end
- 27 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-05
- Next due by
- 2027-08-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46410 Wholesale of textiles
- 46420 Wholesale of clothing and footwear
- 46499 Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 8 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
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PROPERTY INVESTMENTS (YORKSHIRE) LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6717846 (Tier 2), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- haddowgroup.co.uk
- Phone
- 01274360400
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Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HADDOW GROUP PLC | 2018-06-26 |
| HADDOW HOLDINGS PLC | 2014-01-31 |
| HADDOW GROUP PLC | 1988-12-16 |
| MARKETBALLOT PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 1988-07-13 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LISTERS MILLSE, HEATON ROAD, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE BD9 4SH | 2002-07-09 |
| 47 BRUNSWICK PLACE, LONDON, N1 6EE | 1988-07-05 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 57 similar companies in BD
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (27 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1987.
No.9 of the largest wholesale of textiles companies in Bradford →
Competitors Bradford
This company ranks 9 among wholesale of textiles in Bradford.
The class of 1987
51%
of the 20,107 companies incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.