JOHN MARTIN DESIGN ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Company number 03292176 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
John Martin Design Associates is a mature, small-scale design consultancy that continues to generate solid operating margins but is undergoing a severe contraction in net worth due to aggressive dividend extraction and poor working capital management. The company's competitive resilience is critically undermined by over a third of its total assets being tied up in a loan to former directors, leaving it with minimal cash reserves to navigate the sector-wide trend of tightening client budgets. While operationally viable, the firm's financial positioning suggests a harvest strategy by shareholders rather than an agency positioned for growth.
Shareholders' funds
£104,349
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-12-13
- Employees
- 8 (2025 accounts · was 9 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Church Court, Stourbridge Road, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 3TT
- Postcode
- B63 3TT
- Capital
- 400 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 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
- 2025-12-13
- Next due by
- 2026-12-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 6 current · 7 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA808160 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
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Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| HIGHCROFT HOUSE 81-85 NEW ROAD, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS, B45 9JR | 2012-07-16 |
| REMLANE HOUSE, HAGLEY ROAD, STOURBRIDGE, WEST MIDLANDS DY8 1QH | 2000-01-14 |
| THE OLD BAKERY, 1 CLIFTON STREET, STOURBRIDGE, WEST MIDLANDS DY8 3XR | 1998-04-20 |
| 76 WHITCHURCH ROAD, CARDIFF, CF4 3LX | 1997-01-14 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 3,868 similar companies in B
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (8 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
Competitors Birmingham
This company ranks 807 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Birmingham.
The class of 1996
33%
of the 2,496 companies in this sector incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 66% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.