READ BROTHERS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£2,274,739
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1988-09-12
- Employees
- 50 (2025 accounts · was 48 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Burnet Road, Sweetbriar Road, Industrial Estate, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 2BS
- Postcode
- NR3 2BS
- Capital
- 77,600 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-12
- Next due by
- 2026-09-26
Nature of business (SIC)
- 16290 Manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials
Officers 7 current · 8 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB051654 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- readbrothers.co.uk
- Phone
- 01603401319
We are industry leading timber merchants, specialising in all softwoods, hardwood, timber sheet materials, and the design and manufacture of trussed rafter roofs, easi-joist metal web floors and timber frame panels. Here to help you with all your timber related requirements.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LINGWOOD TIMBER LIMITED | 1992-06-11 |
| BOOMPRIME LIMITED | 1988-11-02 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| THE SAWMILL, LINGWOOD, NORFOLK, NR13 4ET | 1992-11-18 |
| 2 BACHES STREET, LONDON, N1 6UB | 1988-10-21 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 18 similar companies in NR
The largest employer among its local peers (50 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1988.
Competitors Norwich
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials in Norwich.
The class of 1988
51%
of the 20,917 companies incorporated in 1988 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2000-10-26
- Where
- Norfolk (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NK255489 | Norfolk | Freehold | 2000-10-26 | — |
| NK51393 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 1992-12-16 | — |
| NK72562 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 1992-12-16 | — |
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