LOMBARD SHIPPING PLC
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Shareholders' funds
£3,012,061
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31
What it does
The principal activities of the business during the year continued to be that of international logistics providers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1985-10-07
- Employees
- 95 (2025 accounts · was 92 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Lombard House Whitehouse Business Centre, Lovetofts Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5SF
- Postcode
- IP1 5SF
- Capital
- 100,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-31
- Next due by
- 2026-11-30
- Financial year end
- 30 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-31
- Next due by
- 2027-06-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 52290 Other transportation support activities
Officers 5 current · 8 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by WHITCOTT HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-07-27
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6398368 (Tier 1), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- lombardshipping.co.uk
Distributing goods throughout the UK, Ireland and globally, Lombard Shipping plc is a provider of international logistics, shipping and forwarding services.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LOMBARD SHIPPING (FELIXSTOWE) LIMITED | 1997-12-16 |
| LOMBARD SHIPPING & FORWARDING (FELIXSTOWE) LIMITED | 1987-03-19 |
Previous registered addresses 8
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 23/06/2009 FROM, LOMBARD HOUSE WHITEHOUSE, BUSINESS CENTRE LOVETOFT DRIVE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP1 5SF | 2009-06-23 |
| LOMBARD HOUSE WHITEHOUSE, BUSINESS CENTRE LOVETOFT DRIVE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP1 5SF | 2009-06-23 |
| PKF (UK) LLP, 16 THE HAVENS RANSOMES EUROPARK, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP3 9SJ | 2007-12-30 |
| KERR HOUSE, 19/23 FORE STREET, IPSWICH SUFFOLK, IP4 1JW | 2004-04-22 |
| KERR HOUSE, 19/23 FORE STREET, IPSWICH SUFFOLK, IP4 1JW | 2004-04-22 |
| LOMBARD HOUSE, 9 SCHNEIDER CLOSE, FELIXSTOWE SUFFOLK, IP11 8SS | 1997-12-04 |
| 62, BERESFORD STREET, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6BG. | 1994-04-07 |
| SIMPSON WREFORD & CO, HADLEY HOUSE, 139-141 LEWISHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON SW13 6BN | 1991-07-19 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 159 similar companies in IP
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (95 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1985.
No.11 of the largest other transportation support activities companies in Ipswich →
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 11 among other transportation support activities in Ipswich.
The class of 1985
49%
of the 15,386 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2019-07-23
- Where
- Merseyside
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS671988 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2019-07-23 | — |
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