WJ NORTH LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£32,728,572
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activities of the company in the period are providing temporary and permanent road and off highways markings, using a wide range of applications and products. They also provide a range of safety related surface treatments, including retexturing, high friction surfacing and pothole repair systems.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1994-01-05
- Employees
- 217 (2025 accounts · was 234 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 7 Brock Way, Knutton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 6AZ
- Postcode
- ST5 6AZ
- Capital
- 95 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 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
- 2026-06-23
- Next due by
- 2027-07-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 6 current · 6 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
Controlled by WJ (GROUP) LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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PRINCIPLE SAFETY LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 4
£536,039,951 total awarded value where published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2021 (period to 2021-01-31) as part of the WJ (GROUP) LIMITED group statement.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
- Website
- wj.co.uk
- Phone
- 01782381780, 03031231113
The UK’s leading & most trusted road marking & highway safety business, WJ Group was founded in 1987. We create safe, sustainable journeys for everyone.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| W J ROADMARKINGS LIMITED | 2015-02-02 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNITS 51 & 52 ROSEVALE ROAD, PARKHOUSE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WEST, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, STAFFORDSHIRE, ST5 7EF | 2009-06-07 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 07/06/2009 FROM, UNITS 51 & 52 ROSEVALE ROAD, PARKHOUSE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WEST, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, STAFFORDSHIRE, ST5 7EF | 2009-06-07 |
| CEDAR HOUSE, BRECKLAND LINFORD WOOD, MILTON KEYNES, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MK14 6EX | 2007-12-19 |
| TAYLORS ACCOUNTANTS, 62-64 BROMHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2QG | 2004-12-08 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 268 similar companies in ST
2nd largest employer among its local peers (217 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1994.
Competitors Stoke-On-Trent
This company ranks 1 among other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified in Stoke-On-Trent.
The class of 1994
40%
of the 351 companies in this sector incorporated in 1994 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 5 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2021-10-08
- Price paid, where recorded
- £550,000
- Where
- Staffordshire (3), West Yorkshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYK913639 | West Yorkshire | Freehold | 2021-10-08 | £550,000 |
| SF661938 | Staffordshire | Leasehold | 2020-09-17 | — |
| SF656261 | Staffordshire | Leasehold | 2020-01-21 | — |
| SF601505 | Staffordshire | Leasehold | 2014-11-05 | — |
| WYK929268 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2010-12-16 | — |
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