{"name":"SMITH SETTLE PRINTING & BOOKBINDING LIMITED","company_number":"02146887","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1987-07-13","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Gateway Drive, Yeadon, Leeds, LS19 7XY","postcode":"LS19 7XY","sic_codes":[{"code":32990,"description":"Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"SMITH SETTLE LIMITED","changed_on":"2003-02-21"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"30 April","last_made_up_to":"2025-04-30","next_due":"2027-01-31"},"employees":{"count":9,"accounts_date":"2025-04-30"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-04-30","net_assets":33307,"cash":164,"average_employees":9},{"financial_date":"2024-04-30","net_assets":31654,"cash":36911,"average_employees":10},{"financial_date":"2023-04-30","net_assets":16374,"cash":6},{"financial_date":"2022-04-30","net_assets":-372,"cash":26},{"financial_date":"2021-04-30","net_assets":1911,"cash":4762}],"officers":{"current":2,"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":6,"outstanding":2},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_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.","website":"http://smithsettle.com","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02146887","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/smith-settle-printing-bookbinding"}