WHISPERING SMITH GROUP LIMITED
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Executive summary
Whispering Smith Group possesses a formidable market position built on decades of wholesale relationships, a compelling dual-brand architecture, and emerging digital capabilities that collectively create defensible competitive advantages. However, the dramatic cash depletion, suspended dividends, and EU execution challenges indicate the group is investing through a period of strategic transition where working capital management and disciplined execution on D2C international expansion will determine whether current momentum translates into sustainable, margin-accretive growth or erodes the balance sheet foundation that underpins long-term competitiveness.
Shareholders' funds
£40,513,535
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-01-03
- Employees
- 6 (2025 accounts · was 5 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Exchange, 5 Bank Street, Bury, BL9 0DN
- Postcode
- BL9 0DN
- Capital
- 307,500 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-06
- Next due by
- 2027-05-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 74990 Non-trading company
- 99999 Dormant Company
Officers 5 current · 9 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| WHISPERING SMITH GROUP PLC | 2026-04-13 |
| RAJAN GROUP PLC | 2009-02-09 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DTE HOUSE HOLLINS MOUNT, BURY, LANCASHIRE, BL9 8AT | 2015-03-05 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, 61 GREAT DUCIE STREET, MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE, M3 1RR | 2010-09-24 |
| DTE HOUSE, HOLLINS MOUNT, BURY, BL9 8AT | 2005-12-06 |
| RAJAN HOUSE, 61 GREAT DUKE STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 1RR | 1997-09-18 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1996-02-25 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 168 similar companies in BL
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (6 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
No.1 of the largest non-trading company companies in Bolton →
Competitors Bolton
This company ranks 1 among non-trading company in Bolton.
The class of 1996
32%
of the 1,946 companies in this sector incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 67% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.