ESKDALEMUIR FORESTRY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-03 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-63.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£83M
+2.6% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£4M
+6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- ESKDALEMUIR FORESTRY LIMITED 2008-09-26 → present
- KRONOSPAN FORESTRY LIMITED 1994-10-25 → 2008-09-26
- ALDERLEAF LIMITED 1994-09-19 → 1994-10-25
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,129,000 | £8,319,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,684,000 | £3,918,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,853,000 | £4,086,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,633,000 | £3,684,000 | |
| Cash | £7,266,000 | £2,680,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £80,831,000 | £86,248,000 | |
| Net assets | £80,780,000 | £82,855,000 | |
| Equity | £79,171,000 | £82,855,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 40.4% | 47.1% | |
| Net margin | 39.8% | 44.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.6% | 4.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.1% | 7.5% | |
| Current ratio | 5.96x | 1.71x | |
| Interest cover | 614.00x | 279.86x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- WR Partners
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board believes that the Company's forecasts covering at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements have been prepared on a conservative basis. The directors believe that the Company is well placed to manage its business successfully despite the current uncertain economic outlook.”
Significant events
- “Whereas all of the major areas of windblown timber caused by Storm Arwen in November 2021 have been cleared, some small pockets of storm damaged timber remain to be harvested.”
- “The Phytophthora Ramorum outbreak in 2019 continued to affect areas of larch throughout the whole portfolio; felling the infected areas will continue for another 5 years.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, Robert Mark | Secretary | 2021-03-10 | — | — |
| BIRRELL, George Andrew | Director | 2005-09-30 | Dec 1968 | British |
| MITCHELL, Teresa Janet | Director | 2016-01-12 | May 1970 | British |
| SCHEIBLREITER, Ludwig Alois Johannes | Director | 2011-01-01 | Jul 1963 | Austrian |
| WELSTEAD, John Fenning | Director | 2007-09-17 | Feb 1956 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RYAN, Christopher James | Secretary | 1994-09-30 | 2021-03-09 |
| COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-09-19 | 1994-09-30 |
| ADKINS, Gavin Paul | Director | 2004-10-01 | 2012-11-16 |
| BODICOAT, Alan Charles | Director | 2006-02-06 | 2006-03-06 |
| BODICOAT, Alan Charles | Director | 1995-04-13 | 2004-09-06 |
| HALL, Michael George Henry | Director | 2007-09-10 | 2008-09-29 |
| HILL, Royston Eric | Director | 1997-03-01 | 1998-02-18 |
| INCH, Philip Richard | Director | 1997-07-01 | 2015-12-31 |
| KAINDL, Martin Matthias | Director | 1997-03-01 | 2019-08-20 |
| KAINDL -SCHONBORN, Elisabeth, Countess | Director | 2012-06-06 | 2017-11-29 |
| LEITCH, Robert Craig | Director | 2005-07-25 | 2005-09-30 |
| MATVEIEFF, Nicholas | Director | 1994-09-30 | 2003-08-26 |
| MITCHELL, Teresa Janet | Director | 2009-08-07 | 2011-04-08 |
| SAGGERS, Michael Terry | Director | 1994-09-19 | 1994-09-30 |
| SCHEIBLREITER, Ludwig Walter | Director | 1994-09-30 | 1997-03-01 |
| SCHONBORN, Damian | Director | 1997-03-20 | 2003-08-26 |
| THOMPSON, John Ian | Director | 2011-04-08 | 2014-07-10 |
| WOOLRICH, Anthony | Director | 1999-09-07 | 2005-07-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 135 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-11 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2021-03-10 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2020-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
-
Turnover
-8.9%
£9,129,000 £8,319,000
-
Cash
-63.1%
£7,266,000 £2,680,000
-
Net assets
+2.6%
£80,780,000 £82,855,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+6.4%
£3,684,000 £3,918,000
-
Profit before tax
+6%
£3,853,000 £4,086,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers