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Financial Distress and Statutory Health Analysis: Acme Cloud Ltd

Financial-distress signals for the UK company Acme Cloud Ltd: county court judgments, winding-up petitions, insolvency or administration notices, and other corroborating evidence of supplier distress. Prioritise these sources: companies-house, gov-uk. Report only corroborated findings and name primary sources.

Jul 2, 2026104 sources reviewed

Executive Summary

This report investigates potential financial distress signals—including Winding-Up Petitions, County Court Judgments (CCJs), insolvency notices, and supplier distress—for the UK-registered entity Acme Cloud Ltd (officially registered as ACMECLOUD LTD). Based on a comprehensive review of Companies House statutory filings and UK Government public records, the primary findings are:

  • No Current Distress Signals: ACMECLOUD LTD exhibits zero registered indicators of financial distress. There are no active charges, insolvency proceedings, or strike-off applications associated with the entity.
  • Recent Incorporation: The company is newly formed, having been incorporated on March 9, 2026. Consequently, it has not yet reached the statutory maturity required to file annual financial accounts, limiting historical financial ratio analysis.
  • Active Corporate Status: The company's status is officially listed as "Active" on the Companies House register, with primary operations classified under business and domestic software development.
  • High Risk of Entity Confusion: Significant financial distress (including voluntary liquidations and strike-offs) was identified in similarly named UK entities (e.g., Acme Capital Limited, Acme Inc Ltd). Careful entity disambiguation is required to avoid attributing false-positive insolvency signals to ACMECLOUD LTD.
  • Absence of Court Judgments: The available public registry evidence contains no records of County Court Judgments (CCJs) or supplier-initiated winding-up petitions against ACMECLOUD LTD.

1. Corporate Identity and Current Status Verification

Before assessing financial distress, it is crucial to establish the exact corporate identity of the target subject. The Companies House register is the definitive statutory source for the current status of live and dissolved companies in the UK [4], [6]. Furthermore, the UK government provides an online 'Find and update company information' service to confirm basic company information, registered addresses, and operational status [18].

A direct query for "Acme Cloud Ltd" resolves to the registered entity ACMECLOUD LTD.

1.1 Target Entity Profile: ACMECLOUD LTD

  • Company Number: 17078854
  • Incorporation Date: 9 March 2026 [2]
  • Company Type: Private limited company [2]
  • Current Status: Active [14]
  • Registered Office Address: 58 Gardener Crescent, Huntingdon, United Kingdom, PE28 9PN [26]
  • Nature of Business (SIC): 62012 - Business and domestic software development [38]

1.2 Entity Disambiguation (False-Positive Risk)

Financial intelligence gathering is highly susceptible to entity naming collisions. To ensure that distress signals belonging to other companies are not erroneously attributed to ACMECLOUD LTD, we have mapped and isolated similarly named entities present in the corporate registry.

The table below contrasts the target entity with neighboring "Acme" variants, highlighting the severe distress signals present in other companies that must be filtered out of the ACMECLOUD LTD risk profile.

Company Name Registration / Status Key Identifying Traits Distress / Insolvency Flags
ACMECLOUD LTD 17078854 / Active Software dev (SIC 62012) [38]; Inc. March 2026 [2] None. Clean profile [14].
THE HOME CLOUD LTD 09260931 / Active Real estate (SIC 68310/68320) [37]; Inc. Oct 2014 [13] None. Active entity [1].
ACME LTD 11519884 / Active Architectural (SIC 71111) [39]; Inc. Aug 2018 [15] None. Active entity [3].
ACME INC LTD SC704338 / Dissolved Dormant accounts filed Aug 2025 [41] Dissolved via voluntary strike-off (Jun 2026) [5].
ACME CAPITAL LIMITED 06600064 / Dissolved Voluntary liquidation initiated Sep 2024 [44] Dissolved following liquidation (Jul 2025) [8].
ACME BUSINESS LTD 13301821 / Active Inc. Mar 2021 [35]; Micro accounts filed [11] Active charges created June 2021 [23].
ACME TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 02742386 / Active Accounts up to Sep 2013 [10] Historical charges (2010) [22]; satisfied (2006) [34].

Note: The research corpus also contains data for an Australian entity, ACME Pty Ltd, which reported total assets of 3,150,000 AUD [12], total liabilities of 1,890,000 AUD [24], and net income of 640,000 AUD [36] for the fiscal year ending June 2025. As this is a distinct foreign entity, its financial metrics have been excluded from the UK target's profile.

2. Assessment of Insolvency Filings and Active Charges

When a registered UK business becomes insolvent and ceases trading, its books and papers legally become the property of its creditors, and the company is legally represented by either a receiver or liquidator [42]. The Companies House register is the central repository for detailed insolvency information, tracking the number of insolvency cases, types of insolvency regimes, petition dates, winding-up dates, and the names and addresses of insolvency practitioners [28].

Additionally, Companies House provides visibility into secured creditor risk by displaying outstanding and part-satisfied corporate charges registered since January 1, 1987 [16].

2.1 Findings for ACMECLOUD LTD

An exhaustive review of the statutory filings for ACMECLOUD LTD yields no evidence of registered charges, mortgage instruments, or insolvency proceedings. The company maintains an unencumbered "Active" status [14].

2.2 Comparative Insolvency Baselines

To validate the absence of insolvency data for ACMECLOUD LTD, we can examine the statutory footprint left by actual distress events in unrelated "Acme" entities. This confirms what distress signals would look like in the public record if ACMECLOUD LTD were failing:

  • Voluntary Winding Up (Acme Capital Limited): When an entity enters liquidation, a clear sequence of statutory forms is filed. For Acme Capital Limited, a "Special resolution to wind up" was filed on September 11, 2024 [32]. This was followed by the formal appointment of a voluntary liquidator (Form 600) on September 20, 2024 [44]. The process concluded with a "Return of final meeting in a members' voluntary winding up" (Form LIQ13) on April 18, 2025 [20].
  • Voluntary Strike-Off (Acme Inc Ltd): For an entity ceasing operations without formal liquidation, an application to strike the company off the register (Form DS01) is filed. Acme Inc Ltd filed a DS01 on March 7, 2026 [17], shortly after submitting accounts for a dormant company [41].

Because ACMECLOUD LTD's filing history lacks any equivalents to Forms 600, LIQ13, or DS01, we can confidently assess that it is not undergoing any registered insolvency or closure regimes.

3. Winding-Up Petitions and The Gazette

In the United Kingdom, formal public notices regarding company receiverships, liquidations, bankruptcies, and winding-up petitions must be published in The London Gazette, which is the official journal of record [30]. The Gazette serves as an early-warning system for supplier distress, as creditors often publish winding-up petitions to force a company into compulsory liquidation over unpaid debts.

3.1 Gazette Notice Findings

There are no Gazette notices—either for winding-up petitions or voluntary strike-offs—recorded for ACMECLOUD LTD.

In contrast, Companies House maintains records of Gazette publications for dissolved entities for up to 20 years [40]. For example, the timeline of a strike-off is visible in the filings of Acme Inc Ltd, which received a "First Gazette notice for voluntary strike-off" (GAZ1(A)) on March 17, 2026 [29], followed by a "Final Gazette dissolved via voluntary strike-off" (GAZ2(A)) on June 2, 2026 [5]. Similarly, Acme Capital Limited received a "Final Gazette dissolved following liquidation" (GAZ2) on July 18, 2025 [8].

The absence of any GAZ1 or GAZ2 filings for ACMECLOUD LTD corroborates its active and non-distressed status.

4. County Court Judgments (CCJs) and Supplier Distress

County Court Judgments (CCJs) are legal decisions handed down in England and Wales when a company fails to repay a debt. They are primary indicators of severe supplier and creditor distress. Operational service interruptions—such as software downtime or halted supply chains—often corroborate these financial legal actions.

4.1 Findings on CCJs and Operational Interruptions

Based on the provided governmental and statutory search records, there is no public record of any County Court Judgments (CCJs) against ACMECLOUD LTD. Furthermore, there is no corroborating evidence of operational service interruptions, supplier-reported distress, or creditor disputes indicating financial insolvency.

Given that ACMECLOUD LTD was incorporated in March 2026 [2], the window for a vendor to accumulate unpaid invoices, initiate legal action, and secure a CCJ is highly compressed, making the existence of such judgments improbable at this stage of the corporate lifecycle.

5. Latest Financial Health Indicators

Statutory financial accounts provide the ultimate lagging indicator of corporate health.

5.1 Financial Filings for ACMECLOUD LTD

As ACMECLOUD LTD was incorporated on March 9, 2026 [2], it has not yet reached the end of its first statutory financial year. Consequently, there are no financial filings or annual accounts available for review.

5.2 Historical Benchmarks from Similar Entities

While we cannot assess ACMECLOUD LTD's balance sheet, it is standard practice to monitor filing cadences of related or similarly sized private entities to anticipate future reporting behaviors. Other UK "Acme" entities utilize specific exemption frameworks for their filings:

  • Acme Business Ltd: Filed "Micro company accounts" for the period ending March 31, 2025, on March 16, 2026 [11].
  • Acme Services (Agency) Limited: Consistently files "Micro company accounts" (e.g., filed on February 20, 2026, for the period up to May 25, 2025 [19]; previously filed in May 2024 [31] and May 2025 [7]). The company also recently changed its registered office address in February 2025 [43].

When ACMECLOUD LTD matures, it is highly likely to utilize the "Micro company accounts" regime, assuming its turnover and asset thresholds remain within the micro-entity limits defined by UK law.

Limitations and Open Questions

While this analysis leverages primary UK government databases, several inherent limitations restrict a perfect assessment of real-time financial health:

  1. Immaturity of Target Entity: Because ACMECLOUD LTD was incorporated in March 2026, the complete absence of distress signals is partially a function of its brief operational history. It takes time for trade credit defaults to escalate into Winding-Up Petitions or formal insolvency.
  2. Lack of Private Credit Data: Statutory registries (Companies House, The Gazette) lag behind real-time corporate distress. Private Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs) often hold earlier signals (e.g., delayed payments to specific suppliers) that are not immediately visible in public government registries.
  3. No Direct CCJ Database Access: While no CCJs are mentioned in the available evidence, definitive, real-time proof of zero CCJs typically requires querying the Registry Trust (the official statutory register of judgments in England and Wales), which was not directly surfaced in this research corpus beyond general Companies House registry bounds.

Sources

Source Quality Summary: Evidence draws on 38 government sources directly derived from UK statutory corporate registers, and 3 professional publications demonstrating standard technical architectures for cross-border financial data.