WHISPERING SMITH LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£23,812,405
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of operating as an importer, exporter and wholesale fashion distributor from its offices and warehouse in Manchester and London, There have been no changes in the principle activates in the year under review and there are none anticipated in the forthcoming year.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1985-09-06
- Employees
- 136 (2025 accounts · was 144 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Exchange, 5 Bank Street, Bury, BL9 0DN
- Postcode
- BL9 0DN
- Capital
- 100,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-13
- Next due by
- 2027-03-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46420 Wholesale of clothing and footwear
Officers 8 current · 6 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7576140 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 1
£50,000 in registered political donations since 2023.
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Conservative and Unionist Party
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| RAJAN IMPORTS LIMITED | 2009-02-09 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| D T E HOUSE HOLLINS MOUNT, BURY, LANCASHIRE, BL9 8AT | 2015-03-05 |
| 61 GREAT DUCIE STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 1RR | 2010-10-02 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, 61 GREAT DUCIE STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 1RR | 2009-03-31 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, 641 HYDE ROAD, MANCHESTER, M12 5PS | 1997-07-03 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, 63-71 TRINITY WAY, MANCHESTER, M3 1LA | 1993-02-01 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, NEW BRIDGE STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 1LA | 1990-10-25 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 71 similar companies in BL
The largest employer among its local peers (136 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1985.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of clothing and footwear companies in Bolton →
Competitors Bolton
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4. SPORTAX LTD
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of clothing and footwear in Bolton.
The class of 1985
49%
of the 15,386 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2023-01-11
- Where
- Greater Manchester (2), Greater London (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB23616 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2023-01-11 | — |
| MAN413433 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2022-12-21 | — |
| MAN381065 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2021-06-15 | — |
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