THE GARAGE DOOR CENTRE LIMITED

Company number 03053431 ·

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Executive summary

The Garage Door Centre Limited, a regional garage door installer with nearly 30 years of trading history, has suffered a catastrophic financial deterioration in 2024, moving from marginal positive equity of £19k to negative net assets of £249k. The company is technically insolvent, with net current liabilities of £345k and cash of only £26k — a perilous position for a 37-employee trading business. While the broader construction specialist sector faced headwinds from interest rate rises, material cost inflation, and suppressed residential RMI demand, this company's collapse appears driven by a combination of structural undercapitalisation (historically operating on equity of just 1-4% of total assets), significant intercompany financial dependency, and an inability to absorb the cumulative impact of sector-wide pressures. The company's status as being in liquidation confirms what the balance sheet made inevitable.

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Shareholders' funds

-£249,558

Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1995-05-04
Employees
37 (2024 accounts · was 40 in 2023)
Registered office
126 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7JA
Postcode
LE1 7JA
Capital
236 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2024-12-31
Next due by
2026-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-05-04
Next due by
2027-05-18
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 5 current · 2 resigned

MS Alice DOVE Director
Appointed 2001-03-06
Appointed 2001-03-06
Appointed 1996-05-09
Appointed 1995-05-04
Appointed 1995-05-04

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Group structure 1 subsidiary

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

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Contact details

Website
thegaragedoorcentre.co.uk
Phone
(01933)274442, 01933229135, 01933448855

Garage Doors: Hormann Garage Doors, Sectional, Roller Shutter Garage Door, Up and Over, Steel and Timber. Call us today on 0800 525 442, UK.

Previous registered addresses 6

AddressChanged on
6-8 MEADOW CLOSE, FINEDON ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN8 4BH, UNITED KINGDOM2012-08-21
FISHPONDS HOUSE 700 WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD, BILLING PARK, NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN3 9BQ, UNITED KINGDOM2012-07-26
BROOKS WAY, ORPINGTON, KENT, BR5 3BB2009-07-22
FISHPONDS HOUSE, 700 WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD, BILLING PARK NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN3 9BQ2009-07-17
CONROY TOBIN, BOUNDRY HOUSE 3RD FLOOR, 91/93 CHARTERHOUSE STREET, LONDON EC1M 6HR1998-10-01
6/8 ISE VALLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, MEADOW CLOSE, WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NN8 4BH1996-02-08

Among its peers

Among the biggest employers

of 428 similar companies in LE, with 37 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.

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Competitors Leicester

This company ranks 483 among other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified in Leicester.

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The class of 1995

44%

of the 289 companies in this sector incorporated in 1995 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 1 title

Leasehold
1
Most recent registration
2021-09-07
Where
North Northamptonshire
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
NN381964 North Northamptonshire Leasehold 2021-09-07

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