Bestplate Limited
Registered name: BESTPLATE LIMITED
Part of Ugroup UK Numberplates Limited groupBestplate Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £958k and 26 employees.
Bestplate Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £958k and 26 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Age
- 58 yrs · since 1967
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “At the balance sheet date, the immediate parent company is UGroup UK Numberplates Limited, a company incorporated in England & Wales, and the ultimate parent company is Polaris Holdings GmbH.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Bestplate Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 26
- Net assets
- £958k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 50 | 44 | 35 | 26 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £3.3m | £252k | £166k |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £3.9m | £2.3m | £958k |
| Fixed assets | £3.4m | £3.3m | £35.5k | £0 |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £5.5m | £4m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £743k | £832k | £923k | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now £958k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £166k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 26
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £0
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Ugroup UK Numberplates Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bestplate Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Hills Numberplates LimitedRev. £11.8m · Profit £9.1m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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- Staff
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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