LRB LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£41,053,634
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-03-14
- Employees
- 65 (2025 accounts · was 67 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 28-30 Little Russell Street, London, WC1A 2HN
- Postcode
- WC1A 2HN
- Capital
- 22 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 3 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
- 2026-05-31
- Next due by
- 2027-06-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47610 Retail sale of books in specialised stores
- 58142 Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals
Officers 10 current · 11 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- lrb.co.uk
Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| PONDWELL LIMITED | 1980-12-31 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 50 similar companies in WC
The largest employer among its local peers (65 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1980.
No.1 of the largest retail sale of books in specialised stores companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 1 among retail sale of books in specialised stores in London.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2017-07-27
- Where
- Greater London (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGL971585 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-07-27 | — |
| NGL971587 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-07-27 | — |
| NGL971589 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2017-07-27 | — |
| NGL878157 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2007-03-26 | — |
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