WIGSTON PAPER AND BOARD

Company number 00544777 ·

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Executive summary

Wigston Paper and Board is a long-established family-owned specialist paper merchant occupying a defensible niche in the UK's declining paper distribution sector. Its focus on coloured and design papers — carrying premium European brands — provides relative insulation from the worst of graphic paper's structural decline, though the addressable market continues to shrink. The unlimited company structure and limited financial disclosure make precise performance benchmarking impossible, but nearly 70 years of continuous trading through multiple sector disruptions suggests a resilient, if unscaled, operation facing the same long-term headwinds affecting all UK paper merchants.

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Overview

Company type
Private Unlimited
Incorporated
1955-02-19
Registered office
Quantum House Interlink Way, South Interlink Park Bardon, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 1PG
Postcode
LE67 1PG
Capital
1 GBP
Charges
3 outstanding

Accounts

Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2020-09-30
Next due by
2021-10-14 Overdue
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 46760 Wholesale of other intermediate products

Officers 8 current · 1 resigned

Appointed 2003-08-04
Appointed 2003-08-04
Appointed 2003-08-04
Appointed 1991-09-30
PAPER MERCHANT Appointed 1991-09-30

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Group structure

Controlled by QUANTUM HOUSE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

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

Contact details

Website
wigstonpaper.co.uk

Welcome to Wigston Paper. Bringing marketers, designers and printers the largest collection of coloured papers in the UK. Our range includes Senses Paper, Gmund Colors and Kaskad Folio.

Previous company names

NameDate changed
WIGSTON PAPER AND BOARD COMPANY 1984-11-30
R. WALKER & CO. (PAPER) LIMITED 1984-04-19

Previous registered addresses 1

AddressChanged on
BOUNDARY HOUSE, CUTTERS CLOSE, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER LE19 2FZ2007-03-31

Among its peers

3rd oldest

of 54 similar companies in LE, trading since 1955