El Matador Limited
ActiveLiveEl Matador Limited is an active private limited company incorporated on 20 Aug 2002 (24 years ago), with its registered office in London. The company operates in Manufacturing.
The score, the reasons behind it, and what to do next.
A live business, still light on evidence
A registered office is on file; phone and web are checked on Pro.
Companies House · ONS · Nomis · General opportunity model · 100% of the model measurable
Financials
From El Matador Limited's filed accounts at Companies House, period ending 2023-08-31. Change vs the prior year (to 2022-08-31). As-filed figures — a signal, not an audited verdict. Dashes are not tagged in the accounts.
A long-standing manufacturing business in London, in a market growing 1.8% a year and growing faster here than nationally. Every signal in the model was measurable for this company.
CompetitionRead this one the other way round: a high number means a crowded market, where differentiation matters more than timing.
Answers: Is this a live, reachable business in a market worth being in?
A balanced read. Pick the lens that matches what you sell and every number on this page re-weights.
Accounts were due 31 Aug 2025 and are not on the register — about 1 year 1 month late.
What this means for you: Overdue filings are the first thing a new supplier will notice — raise it gently, it shows you did your homework.
What we checked · General opportunity weighting
Rows marked Not checked are excluded from the score rather than assumed — the missing weight shows up as lower confidence, not as a worse company.
Commonly offered to a company like this
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Answers: is this market big, growing and survivable — and is the region ahead or behind?
Sector size & momentum
This sector is growing faster in London than nationally — a regional tailwind worth tracking.
Companies House · every incorporation with a SIC code in this sector (259 codes) · a company listing codes in more than one group can be counted twice (~2%)
How long companies last here
Of every 100 companies started in this sector, roughly 42 are still trading five years later. This company is past that point.
The market around it
Where the sector is heading
- 1London is a very high-density market for manufacturing, with about 47,610 companies in the same industry.
- 2Formation is running ahead of the national average here (+2.4% vs +1.8%), pointing to a regional tailwind.
- 3Around 2,535 new companies registered in this industry locally over the last year.
- 4Sector survival sits at 42% over five years — the benchmark for businesses in this classification.
Answers: how crowded is this market, and where does this company sit against its peers?
Score distribution
A quick score from register status and company age only, because that is all the peer list carries. To compare like with like, this company is placed on the same quick score (100) — not the full 59/100 at the top of the page. Treat it as a position, not a ranking.
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| Climafibre LTD 14300864 · SIC 13200 | 17 Aug 2022 | London | Active | 78 |
| Bernard Thorp & Co Limited 01445698 · SIC 13100 | 24 Aug 1979 | London | Active | 100 |
| Heritage Clothing LTD 12244654 · SIC 13200 | 04 Oct 2019 | London | Active | 95 |
| London Cloth Company Limited 07799149 · SIC 13200 | 05 Oct 2011 | London | Active | 100 |
| Maryam Collections LTD 12061472 · SIC 13200 | 20 Jun 2019 | London | Active | 96 |
| Craft Emporium LTD 12721624 · SIC 13200 | 06 Jul 2020 | London | Active | 90 |
| Herbert Parkinson Limited 00318082 · SIC 13200 | 01 Sept 1936 | London | Active | 100 |
| Galashirt Limited 10851205 · SIC 13200 | 05 Jul 2017 | London | Active | 100 |
| 21 Hands Limited 08251349 · SIC 13200 | 12 Oct 2012 | London | Active | 100 |
| One Eleven 2017 LTD 11041920 · SIC 13200 | 01 Nov 2017 | London | Active | 100 |
| Big Excel LTD 14219904 · SIC 13200 | 07 Jul 2022 | London | Active | 79 |
| Vallance Tailors LTD 12337933 · SIC 13200 | 28 Nov 2019 | London | Active | 94 |
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| HK Tailors LTD 15940566 · SIC 13200 | 06 Sept 2024 | London | Active | 67 |
| The Egyptian Cotton Company Limited 14746951 · SIC 13100 | 21 Mar 2023 | London | Active | 75 |
| Cri.Land. Limited 12406386 · SIC 13200 | 15 Jan 2020 | London | Active | 93 |
| Angie Sewing Limited 12484171 · SIC 13200 | 26 Feb 2020 | London | Active | 92 |
| Paragon Textiles Limited 08798436 · SIC 13200 | 02 Dec 2013 | Yorkshire & the Humber | Active | 100 |
| Butterfly Embroidery Limited 04875471 · SIC 13200 | 22 Aug 2003 | West Midlands | Active | 100 |
| Grice Imports LTD 14085579 · SIC 10832 | 04 May 2022 | South East | Active | 80 |
| Savile Clifford Limited 00269199 · SIC 13200 | 10 Oct 1932 | Yorkshire & the Humber | Active | 100 |
| Bower Roebuck & Co.,Limited 00062048 · SIC 13200 | 11 May 1899 | Yorkshire & the Humber | Active | 100 |
| William Thompson Fine Cloths (Huddersfield) Limited 08661568 · SIC 13200 | 22 Aug 2013 | Yorkshire & the Humber | Active | 100 |
| Rover + Toil LTD 12770917 · SIC 13200 | 27 Jul 2020 | South East | Active | 90 |
Answers: what is formally on the public register — and what has not been filed yet?
Timeline
In plain English: Received a strike-off notice without being dissolved.
- Status change / strike-offDissolved compulsory strike off suspended18 Nov 2025
- Strike-off noticeGazette notice compulsory28 Oct 2025
- Confirmation statementConfirmation statement with no updates01 May 2025
- Accounts filedMicro-entity accounts30 Aug 2024
- Confirmation statementConfirmation statement with no updates06 Apr 2024
- Accounts filedMicro-entity accounts01 Jun 2023
- Confirmation statementConfirmation statement with no updates07 Apr 2023
- Confirmation statementConfirmation statement with no updates25 Mar 2023
- Accounts filedMicro-entity accounts21 May 2022
- Confirmation statementConfirmation statement with no updates28 Apr 2022
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Company details
- Company
- El Matador Limited
- Number
- 04514973
- Registered office
- Unit 6eb Bernard Works, Bernard Road, London, N15 4NE
- Incorporated
- 20 Aug 2002
- Type
- Private limited company
- Nature of business
- 13200 — SIC division 13; 13921 — SIC division 13; 13931 — SIC division 13; 15120 — SIC division 15
- Status
- Active
- Region
- London · England
- Accounts
- Overdue, was due 31 Aug 2025
- Confirmation statement
- Overdue, was due 20 Apr 2026
Connected companies
Other companies run by the same directors are checked on paid plans — each appointment is a separate register lookup.
Who runs and owns it
- Created
- 04 Nov 2010
- Registered
- 11 Nov 2010
- Persons entitled
- Brookstone Properties Limited
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