The Big Trade Counter Limited
Registered name: THE BIG TRADE COUNTER LIMITED
Part of Cc117 Limited groupThe Big Trade Counter Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Oct 2024 show net assets of -£281k and 3 employees.
The Big Trade Counter 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 Oct 2024 showed net assets of −£281k and 3 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale in non-specialised stores” and is based in Rayleigh; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rayleigh, East of England
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- 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: “The company is a subsidiary of GJB Holdings Limited, which is incorporated in England and Wales and has a registered office of 21 Totman Crescent, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7UY. Copies of its group financi”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
The Big Trade Counter Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Oct 2024 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
- 3
- Net assets
- −£281k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | £100 | −£281k |
| Debtors | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
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
- ▼280697%
- Now −£281k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cc117 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- GJB Holdings Limited75–100%
- The Big Trade Counter Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Space Age Building Products LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (3)
- GJB Developments LimitedRev. £21.5m · Profit £485k
- Listers Central LimitedRev. £18.8m · Profit £43.8k
- GJB New Build LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Oct 2024, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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