RAYWARE LIMITED
Company number 01237389 · Monitor this company
The confirmation statement for this company is overdue.
Executive summary
Rayware Limited occupies a stable but strategically vulnerable position as a heritage UK homewares wholesaler with valuable brand assets and established distribution, yet faces clear headwinds from revenue stagnation and declining equity. The company must urgently address margin compression while pursuing targeted growth through brand acquisition, digital channel development, and international expansion to reverse the current trajectory of flat-lining performance. With concentrated ownership providing both strategic agility and succession risk, the next 18-24 months represent a critical window for leadership to transition from preservation mode to proactive value creation.
Shareholders' funds
£4,448,549
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the sale of homewares.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1975-12-12
- Employees
- 142 (2024 accounts · was 155 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 26-32 Spitfire Road, Liverpool, England, L24 9BF
- Postcode
- L24 9BF
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-07-05
- Next due by
- 2026-07-19 Overdue
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46499 Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) not elsewhere classified
- 90030 Artistic creation
Officers 4 current · 11 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by HAMSARD 3636 LIMITED — since 2021-07-28
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7216458 (Tier 2), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- rayware.co.uk
- Phone
- 01514861888, 03031231113
The Rayware Group is home to a number of much-loved kitchenware brands and supplies houseware products to retailers, cookshops and garden centres all around the UK. Request a trade account today.
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 2 DOVER COURT, DOVER ROAD, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON WA4 1NW | 2003-12-04 |
| C/O GRANT THORNTON, 1ST FLOOR ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, LIVERPOOL, L3 1PS | 2003-11-07 |
| SPITFIRE AVENUE, TRIUMPH TRADING PARK, SPEKE HALL ROAD LIVERPOOL, L24 9GQ | 2000-04-06 |
| UNITS 8 & 9, MERSEYPRIDE ENTERPRISE TRAD PARK, SPEKE HALL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L24 9GQ | 1998-05-22 |
| LLOYDS BANK CHAMBERS, 92 LONDON RD, LIVERPOOL 3 | 1991-06-07 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 23 similar companies in L
2nd largest employer among its local peers (142 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1975.
Competitors Liverpool
This company ranks 2 among wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) not elsewhere classified in Liverpool.
The class of 1975
52%
of the 5,874 companies incorporated in 1975 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2022-03-01
- Where
- Merseyside (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS695922 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2022-03-01 | — |
| MS693992 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2021-12-16 | — |
| MS693934 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2021-12-15 | — |
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