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Company description
UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 4 February 1955; registered for 71 years; registered office reported in ENFIELD, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46140 · Agents involved in the sale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 August 2025, it reported turnover £48,195,050, profit after tax £1,326,556, net assets £7,967,169, average employees 96. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 9 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00544217
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 2 outstanding · 5 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
23 February 2026Next statement due
9 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £48,195,050
- Gross profit
- £8,474,295
- Operating profit
- £1,824,051
- Profit before tax
- £1,794,141
- Profit after tax
- £1,326,556
- Fixed assets
- £2,736,484
- Net assets
- £7,967,169
- Current assets
- £16,925,819
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £8,700,551
- Cash at bank
- £349,240
- Equity
- £5,400
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
BE24277 - Parts for Ventilation Upgrade
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-54755718-afb9-4c99-95e3-a75c00d02010
- Supplier named in award
- Underwoods Electrical Distributors Ltd
- Award value
- £16,616.59
- Contract period
- 4 December 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Published
- 5 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 42520000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-54755718-afb9-4c99-95e3-a75c00d02010-2024-12-05T16:26:05Z
BE24266 - Vacuum Upgrade
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-00440e2d-9a0e-452f-bfd5-eed7ad5309a3
- Supplier named in award
- Underwoods Electrical Distributors Ltd
- Award value
- £16,490.20
- Contract period
- 4 December 2024 – 27 December 2024
- Published
- 4 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 42124320
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-00440e2d-9a0e-452f-bfd5-eed7ad5309a3-2024-12-04T14:59:05Z
Equipment for Intermediate Target upgrade
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-49ac9633-61fa-430c-9aa4-9f91258c4587
- Supplier named in award
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Award value
- £14,991.54
- Contract period
- 14 August 2024 – 27 August 2024
- Published
- 14 August 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-49ac9633-61fa-430c-9aa4-9f91258c4587-2024-08-14T15:04:19+01:00
DDaT23510 R4 Air Project PLC components
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-80f92f36-162b-4cf9-b87b-1bd401a549a9
- Supplier named in award
- Underwoods Electrical Distributors Ltd
- Award value
- £11,029.79
- Contract period
- 30 October 2023 – 26 January 2024
- Published
- 29 November 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 30200000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-80f92f36-162b-4cf9-b87b-1bd401a549a9-2023-11-29T19:58:23Z
DDaT23478- Hardware parts
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-deaf9c4d-c929-4009-b7ff-5ee0e1d663ed
- Supplier named in award
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Award value
- £31,271.67
- Contract period
- 17 October 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Published
- 17 October 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 30236200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-deaf9c4d-c929-4009-b7ff-5ee0e1d663ed-2023-10-17T13:29:07+01:00
DDaT23460 - Ha-VIS eCon 2040B-A
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-6dfc9759-05d0-4208-97c9-537490211de2
- Supplier named in award
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Award value
- £40,314.78
- Contract period
- 6 October 2023 – 4 March 2024
- Published
- 6 October 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 30200000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6dfc9759-05d0-4208-97c9-537490211de2-2023-10-06T13:26:10+01:00
BE23107-Specialist Engineering Components, Electrical
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-b53da751-9ecc-47c9-83c4-5dabec7eeb35
- Supplier named in award
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Award value
- £10,082.15
- Contract period
- 6 June 2023 – 9 June 2023
- Published
- 8 June 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b53da751-9ecc-47c9-83c4-5dabec7eeb35-2023-06-08T15:27:38+01:00
FM22149 - Spares for existing Omron PLC systems
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-1b58d618-ffb9-45cb-8e39-b2537ea939d1
- Supplier named in award
- UNDERWOODS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED
- Award value
- £13,456.20
- Contract period
- 13 July 2022 – 1 January 2023
- Published
- 22 July 2022
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31680000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1b58d618-ffb9-45cb-8e39-b2537ea939d1-2022-07-22T12:34:48+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Underwoods Group Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies
- Registration number
- 02224604
- Notified
- 16 December 2020
Mr David Alfred HillSee 8 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 2 March 2021
Mr Laurence Hilary SmithSee 10 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 2 March 2021
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.