LESTER & BROWN LIMITED
Company number 06650978 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Lester & Brown Limited presents a classic turnaround scenario: an established independent retailer with sector-specific expertise and recent operational momentum, but encumbered by a deeply impaired balance sheet that constrains strategic options and creates existential going concern risk. The FY2024 improvement—reducing net liabilities by 43%—demonstrates the directors' capacity to engineer recovery, yet the business remains technically insolvent and asset-constrained at a level that fundamentally limits competitive positioning. The path forward requires decisive balance sheet restructuring, likely through director capital injection, combined with a pivot toward higher-margin service revenue and digital channel development to build resilience against the structural headwinds facing discretionary retail independents.
Shareholders' funds
-£17,448
Balance sheet as at 2025-11-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year under review was that of retail jewellers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2008-07-18
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 29 Park Lane, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire, SK12 1RD
- Postcode
- SK12 1RD
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-18
- Next due by
- 2027-08-01
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47770 Retail sale of watches and jewellery in specialised stores
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
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LIQUID BESPOKE MEDIA LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
Competitors Stockport
This company ranks 19 among retail sale of watches and jewellery in specialised stores in Stockport.
The class of 2008
24%
of the 245,266 companies incorporated in 2008 are still active today; 74% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.