SWAIN CONTAINER SOLUTIONS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£14,702,437
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of road haulage and logistics.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1979-08-29
- Employees
- 56 (2025 accounts · was 55 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Vulcan House Medway Freight Centre, Priory Road, Rochester, England, ME2 2BD
- Postcode
- ME2 2BD
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-26
- Next due by
- 2026-10-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49410 Freight transport by road
Officers 3 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by R.SWAIN & SONS LIMITED — since 2018-06-27
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2024 (period to 2023-12-31) as part of the R.SWAIN & SONS LIMITED group statement — 3 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| EXPRESS FREIGHT SERVICES (U.K.) LIMITED | 2024-08-29 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GALLIONS CLOSE, OFF THAMES ROAD, BARKING,ESSEX, IG11 0JD | 2004-04-16 |
| DAGENHAM DOCK COMPLEX, CHEQUERS LANE, DAGENHAM, ESSEX RM9 6QD | 1991-10-28 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 649 similar companies in ME
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (56 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1979.
No.3 of the largest freight transport by road companies in Maidstone →
Competitors Maidstone
This company ranks 3 among freight transport by road in Maidstone.
The class of 1979
49%
of the 8,388 companies incorporated in 1979 are still active today; 43% 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
- 2016-08-02
- Where
- Thurrock
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EX941624 | Thurrock | Leasehold | 2016-08-02 | — |
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