THE GARAGE DOOR CENTRE LIMITED
Company number 03053431 · Monitor this company
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.
Shareholders' funds
-£249,558
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
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
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
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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
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 6-8 MEADOW CLOSE, FINEDON ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN8 4BH, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-08-21 |
| FISHPONDS HOUSE 700 WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD, BILLING PARK, NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN3 9BQ, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-07-26 |
| BROOKS WAY, ORPINGTON, KENT, BR5 3BB | 2009-07-22 |
| FISHPONDS HOUSE, 700 WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD, BILLING PARK NORTHAMPTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NN3 9BQ | 2009-07-17 |
| CONROY TOBIN, BOUNDRY HOUSE 3RD FLOOR, 91/93 CHARTERHOUSE STREET, LONDON EC1M 6HR | 1998-10-01 |
| 6/8 ISE VALLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, MEADOW CLOSE, WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NN8 4BH | 1996-02-08 |
Among its peers
Among the biggest employers
of 428 similar companies in LE, with 37 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Leicester
This company ranks 483 among other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified in Leicester.
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.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2021-09-07
- Where
- North Northamptonshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NN381964 | North Northamptonshire | Leasehold | 2021-09-07 | — |
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