NHBS LTD.

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Shareholders' funds

£939,285

Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30

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What it does

The group's principal activity continues to be that of wildlife, ecology and conservation activities, as a seller of books and equipment, as a manufacturer of equipment and as a publisher of magazines.

The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.

Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1985-01-03
Employees
54 (2025 accounts · was 57 in 2024)
Registered office
1-6 The Stables, Ford Road, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5LE
Postcode
TQ9 5LE
Capital
41,520 GBP
Accounts category
Group
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-06-30
Next due by
2027-03-31
Financial year end
30 June

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2025-11-17
Next due by
2026-12-01
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
  • 47910 Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
  • 58141 Publishing of learned journals

Officers 4 current · 15 resigned

Appointed 2025-10-24
Appointed 2025-03-01
Appointed 2014-10-03

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Group structure 1 subsidiary

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 1

£18,129 total awarded value where published.

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Contact details

Website
nhbs.com
Phone
03031231113, +44 1803865913, 01803865913

NHBS supply wildlife survey equipment and books to naturalists, academics and ecological and conservation professionals. Our website includes over 135,000 books covering every aspect of wildlife, ecology and conservation as well as a comprehensive range of wildlife survey equipment, nestboxes and habitat management tools.

Previous company names

NameDate changed
NATURAL HISTORY BOOK SERVICE LIMITED1996-10-24

Previous registered addresses 2

AddressChanged on
2 WILLS ROAD, TOTNES, DEVON, TQ9 5XN2014-12-02
22 WYKEHAM MANSIONS, 38 ROSENDALE ROAD, LONDON SE21 8DS1987-07-10

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 68 similar companies in TQ

Among the biggest employers among its local peers (54 staff).

3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1985.

No.5 of the largest other manufacturing not elsewhere classified companies in Newton Abbot →

Competitors Newton Abbot

This company ranks 5 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Newton Abbot.

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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 2 titles

Leasehold
2
Most recent registration
2023-02-22
Where
Devon (2)
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
DN757291 Devon Leasehold 2023-02-22
DN727821 Devon Leasehold 2020-07-22

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