WIGSTON PAPER AND BOARD
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The confirmation statement for this company is overdue.
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.
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
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46760 Wholesale of other intermediate products
Officers 8 current · 1 resigned
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
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| WIGSTON PAPER AND BOARD COMPANY | 1984-11-30 |
| R. WALKER & CO. (PAPER) LIMITED | 1984-04-19 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BOUNDARY HOUSE, CUTTERS CLOSE, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER LE19 2FZ | 2007-03-31 |
Among its peers
3rd oldest
of 54 similar companies in LE, trading since 1955