{"name":"RAFTERTON LIMITED","company_number":"04445658","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2002-05-23","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"25 Wilton Road, Victoria, London, England, SW1V 1LW","postcode":"SW1V 1LW","sic_codes":[{"code":46750,"description":"Wholesale of chemical products"},{"code":70229,"description":"Management consultancy activities other than financial management"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Micro","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2026-03-31","next_due":"2027-12-31"},"employees":{"count":0,"accounts_date":"2026-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-03-31","net_assets":427630,"average_employees":0},{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","net_assets":286653,"average_employees":0},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","net_assets":232039,"average_employees":1},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","net_assets":34290},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":408971}],"officers":{"current":1,"resigned":6,"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":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Rafterton Limited is a micro-entity hybrid operating at the intersection of UK chemical wholesale (SIC 46750) and management consultancy (SIC 70229), with a balance sheet profile — 11.2% fixed-asset intensity, zero employees, and £433k of current assets — most consistent with a commission-based trading intermediary rather than a stock-holding distributor. Its financial position is notably conservative by sector standards (58.8% equity ratio, 2.79 current ratio, 15.9% gearing, 23.5% return on opening equity), but net assets have compounded at just 0.16% annually since FY2019 and the 91.6% net-asset collapse in FY2023 tracks the European chemical destocking cycle almost exactly, indicating concentrated exposure rather than diversified resilience. The company occupies a defensible but structurally vulnerable niche in the long tail of chemical distribution, facing disintermediation risk from digital marketplaces and scale disadvantage against PE-consolidated majors, with a 93.4% year-on-year rise in short-term creditors the principal item warranting further scrutiny.","website":"/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/rafterton","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/rafterton/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/rafterton/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04445658","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/rafterton/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/rafterton/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/rafterton/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/rafterton"}