UNIVERSAL CONTAINER SERVICES LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£9,185,079
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of storage, repair, conversions and sale of containers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1990-12-04
- Employees
- 35 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- M44 5FZ, Wharfside Container Park Wharfside Container Park, Irlam Wharf Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5FZ
- Postcode
- M44 5FZ
- Capital
- 43,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-05
- Next due by
- 2027-08-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 24330 Cold forming or folding
- 25990 Manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified
- 28131 Manufacture of pumps
- 52103 Operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities
Officers 1 current · 10 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by UNIVERSAL CONTAINER SERVICES (HOLDINGS) LTD — since 2017-01-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZC255943 (Tier 1), registered since 2026.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSAL CONTAINER SERVICES (ANTHONY WARD) LIMITED | 2003-05-07 |
| ANTHONY WARD CONTAINER SERVICES LIMITED | 1991-02-22 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BARTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE BARTON MOSS, ECCLES, MANCHESTER, M30 7RT | 2015-06-25 |
| UNIVERSAL CONTAINERS, BOUNDARY TRADING PARK, LIVERPOOL ROAD, IRLAM, MANCHESTER, M30 6FL | 2010-12-31 |
| BOUNDRY TRADING PARK, LIVERPOOL ROAD, IRLAM, MANCHESTER M30 6FL | 2005-12-06 |
| 68 CLAUDE ROAD, CHORLTONVILLE, MANCHESTER, M21 2DF | 1991-03-21 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 28 similar companies in M — measured against the wider sector
3rd largest employer among its local peers (35 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1990.
The class of 1990
50%
of the 20,401 companies incorporated in 1990 are still active today; 45% have since been dissolved.
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