{"name":"QUEEN ANNE TABLEWARE LIMITED","company_number":"04050469","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2000-08-10","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Classic Works, Holyhead Road, Wednesbury, West Midlands, WS10 7PD","postcode":"WS10 7PD","sic_codes":[{"code":25990,"description":"Manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"QUALITY MANUFACTURING LIMITED","changed_on":"2000-09-14"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Audit Exemption Subsidiary","year_end":"31 May","last_made_up_to":"2025-05-31","next_due":"2027-02-28"},"employees":{"count":23,"accounts_date":"2023-08-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2023-08-31","net_assets":941710,"cash":33911,"average_employees":23},{"financial_date":"2022-08-31","net_assets":1154392,"cash":11134,"average_employees":27},{"financial_date":"2021-08-31","net_assets":97201,"cash":133826},{"financial_date":"2020-08-31","net_assets":130555,"cash":76799},{"financial_date":"2019-08-31","net_assets":98678,"cash":23191}],"officers":{"current":1,"resigned":4,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":1,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Queen Anne Tableware Limited operates as a niche heritage manufacturer within the UK's declining fabricated metal products sector, leveraging its \"Queen Anne\" brand positioning and Black Country manufacturing heritage to differentiate from low-cost import competition. While the company benefits from freehold property ownership and group support through Global Metal Finishers Limited, its balance sheet reveals significant structural concerns: a current ratio of just 0.44:1, heavily depreciated plant and machinery requiring imminent capital investment, and a 15% workforce reduction suggesting operational contraction. The substantial directors' current account balance (£795,866) provides some reassurance regarding short-term creditor obligations, but the business remains dependent on continued group and director financial support—a vulnerability in an industry facing persistent energy cost pressure, import penetration, and regulatory compliance burdens that show little sign of abating.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/queen-anne-tableware","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04050469","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/queen-anne-tableware/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/queen-anne-tableware"}