SMITH SETTLE PRINTING & BOOKBINDING LIMITED
Company number 02146887 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Smith Settle Printing & Bookbinding is a resilient, 38-year-old craft manufacturer whose scarce bookbinding expertise and post-2022 balance-sheet recovery give it a credible platform in premium print niches, but its strategic options are constrained by acute liquidity thinness — £164 of cash, negative working capital and £55k of short-term bank debt. The winning strategy is deliberate premiumisation toward restoration, limited-edition and institutional work, funded by working-capital discipline and recovery of capital currently tied up outside operations, paired with modest equipment modernisation. Executed well, the company can convert heritage into a defensible, profitable niche; without balance-sheet repair, it remains one adverse trading year from renewed distress.
Shareholders' funds
£34,286
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-07-13
- Employees
- 9 (2025 accounts · was 10 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Gateway Drive, Yeadon, Leeds, LS19 7XY
- Postcode
- LS19 7XY
- Capital
- 3,600 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-11-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 6 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- smithsettle.com
- Phone
- 0113 250 9201
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SMITH SETTLE LIMITED | 2003-02-21 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| OTLEY MILLS, ILKLEY RD, OTLEY, WEST YORKS LS21 3JP | 2006-06-08 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 207 similar companies in LS, trading since 1987
Competitors Leeds
This company ranks 89 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Leeds.
The class of 1987
58%
of the 209 companies in this sector incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2006-06-09
- Where
- West Yorkshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYK823734 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2006-06-09 | — |
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