NHBS LTD.
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Shareholders' funds
£939,285
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
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
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
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
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| NATURAL HISTORY BOOK SERVICE LIMITED | 1996-10-24 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 2 WILLS ROAD, TOTNES, DEVON, TQ9 5XN | 2014-12-02 |
| 22 WYKEHAM MANSIONS, 38 ROSENDALE ROAD, LONDON SE21 8DS | 1987-07-10 |
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.
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 number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DN757291 | Devon | Leasehold | 2023-02-22 | — |
| DN727821 | Devon | Leasehold | 2020-07-22 | — |
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