Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Phone number
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Address
Empirecars Bedford Ltd, 1 Cotton End Road, Wilstead, Bedford, MK45 3BT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When empirecarsbedford.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01234 741002 is
- Who else gives the postcode MK45 3BT
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Cople Car Sales Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Empire Cars Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (3 permissions)
- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 07389704 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 September 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- Lynwood House, 373/375 Station Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 2AW
- Nature of business
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- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imran Aftab | Director | Nov 1980 | 28 Sep 2010 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£292k
+17% from £250k
Cash at bank
£77.5k
+66% from £46.7k
Owed within a year
£934k
+36% from £685k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2026
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07389704. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Empirecars Bedford’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2020
11 May 2020
- Sara Doraisamy stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Imran Aftab took control (75–100% of shares)
- Sara Doraisamy became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2015
23 March 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2010
28 September 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 14 events
- All 14 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 1
Firms like Empirecars Bedford
Other firms of the same type (car dealer), nearest first.
In Bedford
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- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 14 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk