HERBERT WALKERS LIMITED
Company number 00405322 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Herbert Walkers Limited demonstrates financial performance that positions it firmly in the upper echelon of UK independent sheet-fed printers, with a decade-long trajectory of balance sheet strengthening and a notable margin improvement in FY2025. The company's strategic pivot towards packaging and greeting card production provides meaningful insulation from digital substitution headwinds affecting broader commercial print, while its reinvestment-oriented ownership structure (evidenced by dividend abstention and apparent capital investment) positions it well to capture market share as smaller, under-capitalised competitors exit the market. The primary risks centre on scale limitations relative to consolidated competitors and the execution risk inherent in capital-intensive investment cycles within a structurally challenging industry.
Shareholders' funds
£6,495,870
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the design and printing of commercial print.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1946-03-01
- Employees
- 103 (2025 accounts · was 116 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 115 Dockfield Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, BD17 7AR
- Postcode
- BD17 7AR
- Capital
- 50,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-20
- Next due by
- 2027-08-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 18129 Printing not elsewhere classified
Officers 7 current · 11 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA472658 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- herbertwalkers.co.uk
- Phone
- 01274 531828
print and packaging print supplier for retailers and brands high quality printing and finishing for packaging
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HERBERT WALKER & SON (PRINTERS) LIMITED | 2010-08-11 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| P.O.BOX 231., DOCKFIELD ROAD,, SHIPLEY,, W.YORKS., BD17 7AS | 2016-01-18 |
| PO BOX 33 CARR LANE, LOW MOOR, BRADFORD, WEST YORKS BD12 ORW | 1989-08-08 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 77 similar companies in BD
The largest employer among its local peers (103 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1946.
No.1 of the largest printing not elsewhere classified companies in Bradford →
Competitors Bradford
This company ranks 1 among printing not elsewhere classified in Bradford.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2012-10-05
- Where
- West Yorkshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YY9499 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2012-10-05 | — |
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