TAYLOR & WATSON LIMITED
Company number 01250827 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Taylor & Watson Limited is a financially robust but potentially contracting manufacturing business with excellent liquidity (3.35x current ratio), minimal debt, and a strong cash position of £140,044 that has more than doubled in the latest year. While profitability remains healthy at 15% return on equity, the significant decline in trade debtors (-40.8%), reduced stock levels, falling employee count, and insufficient capital investment suggest the business may be scaling back operations rather than investing for growth. The priority should be determining whether this contraction is deliberate strategy or an unintended decline requiring intervention.
Shareholders' funds
£214,172
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1976-03-24
- Employees
- 4 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Wentworth Rd, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 6ET
- Postcode
- S36 6ET
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-26
- Next due by
- 2027-03-12
Nature of business (SIC)
- 25990 Manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 4 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6628396 (Tier 1), registered since 2002.
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Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 233 similar companies in S, trading since 1976
Competitors Sheffield
This company ranks 72 among manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified in Sheffield.
The class of 1976
51%
of the 7,066 companies incorporated in 1976 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.