TAYLOR & BRAITHWAITE LIMITED
Company number 04510044 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Taylor & Braithwaite Limited is a financially robust, cash-rich construction equipment dealer navigating a severe cyclical downturn with commendable operational discipline—improving profitability despite significant revenue contraction. The company's strategic challenge is to leverage its balance sheet strength to capture market share during the downturn while simultaneously transforming its business model to address digital disruption and margin compression, ensuring it emerges from the cycle as a stronger, more diversified regional leader rather than merely a survivor.
Shareholders' funds
£6,027,379
Balance sheet as at 2025-11-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year was that of the sale of new construction equipment supplied from a number of international manufacturing companies and also the purchase and sale of used construction equipment and the sale of related spare parts and services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-08-13
- Employees
- 26 (2025 accounts · was 27 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Dyke Nook, Sandford, Appleby-In-Westmorland, Cumbria, CA16 6NS
- Postcode
- CA16 6NS
- Capital
- 3,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-08
- Next due by
- 2027-08-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45190 Sale of other motor vehicles
Officers 2 current · 8 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by TAYLOR & BRAITHWAITE (HOLDINGS) LIMITED — since 2022-03-18
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
£125,000,000 total awarded value where published.
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Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 15 similar companies in CA
The largest employer among its local peers (26 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Carlisle
This company ranks 1 among sale of other motor vehicles in Carlisle.
The class of 2002
40%
of the 122,927 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2004-02-25
- Where
- Westmorland And Furness
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU93444 | Westmorland And Furness | Freehold | 2004-02-25 | — |
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