LAWRIE & SYMINGTON, LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-05 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+2.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£16M
+3.6% vs 2023
Employees
67
+9.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£969K
+35.5% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,818,256 | £5,319,936 | |
| Operating profit | £562,225 | £894,230 | |
| Profit before tax | £715,076 | £969,090 | |
| Net profit | £597,989 | £771,939 | |
| Cash | £2,037,660 | £2,080,393 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,220,161 | £16,720,554 | |
| Net assets | £15,279,076 | £15,827,125 | |
| Equity | £15,279,076 | £15,827,125 | |
| Average employees | 61 | 67 | |
| Wages | £1,735,362 | £1,844,250 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.7% | 16.8% | |
| Net margin | 12.4% | 14.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.5% | 5.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 9.0% | 9.7% | |
| Current ratio | 10.18x | 8.35x |
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
- I A Stewart & Co Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- LAWRIE & SYMINGTON, LIMITED · parent
- Faithlist Limited
Significant events
- “Our non-commission business added the Gavel restaurant in May”
- “the winding up of the defined benefit pension.”
- “sale of assets and defined benefit pension fund.”
- “Faithlist Limited was a dormant, wholly owned subsidiary of Lawrie & Symington Limited. Faithlist Limited was incorporated in Scotland (SC132660) with registered office at 48 John Street, Forfar, DD8 3EZ. The company was dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 30 January 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 44 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCKELLAR, Jamie | Secretary | 2022-06-17 | — | — |
| FERRIE, Scott Macfarlane | Director | 2025-08-04 | Mar 1981 | British |
| GILCHRIST, James Taylor | Director | 2022-04-14 | May 1969 | British |
| HAMILTON, David John | Director | 2022-04-14 | May 1971 | British |
| MCKELLAR, Jamie | Director | 2022-05-09 | Oct 1972 | British |
| RENWICK, Gordon John | Director | 2012-07-23 | Apr 1957 | British |
| STEEL, Andrew White | Director | 2014-05-09 | Jun 1957 | British |
| STEEL, William | Director | 2021-12-06 | Sep 1968 | British |
| TAYLOR, Robert Marshall | Director | 2026-01-06 | Mar 1972 | British |
Show 44 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORSFALL, Donald James Linton | Secretary | 1991-11-15 | 1993-09-14 |
| POLLOCK, George | Secretary | 1993-11-22 | 2004-10-01 |
| WAUGH, Walter John | Secretary | 2004-10-01 | 2022-06-17 |
| D.W. COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 1991-11-15 |
| ANDERSON, Robin Beattie | Director | 2021-04-20 | 2022-03-11 |
| BARR, Matthew Robert | Director | 1989-09-01 | 1993-04-23 |
| BAYHAM, John William, Dr | Director | — | 1993-04-23 |
| BIRRELL, David | Director | — | 1990-09-28 |
| BRYSON, Agnes Hamilton | Director | 2022-06-17 | 2023-09-21 |
| BURKE, Graham Craig | Director | 2008-04-14 | 2012-11-16 |
| CHAPMAN, John Cumming | Director | 1993-04-23 | 2002-09-30 |
| CLARK, Robert Michael | Director | 1993-04-23 | 2013-03-07 |
| COUBROUGH, Charles Malcolm | Director | 1994-03-07 | 2002-02-12 |
| DEANS, George James | Director | 2007-01-22 | 2009-05-15 |
| DICKIE, Brian Hastings | Director | 2009-06-15 | 2019-09-10 |
| DRIFE, Robert Baird | Director | 2012-07-23 | 2015-11-19 |
| DUNLOP, James | Director | 2001-06-12 | 2007-12-10 |
| DYKES, John | Director | 1993-04-23 | 2000-07-19 |
| HAMILTON, Dugald Mcauslan | Director | 1996-01-15 | 2008-04-14 |
| HAMILTON, James | Director | 2002-04-08 | 2012-12-13 |
| HARVEY, Gilbert | Director | — | 1992-04-15 |
| HENDRIE, James Caldwell | Director | 1993-04-23 | 1998-03-23 |
| HILL, Gavin Blair | Director | — | 1993-04-23 |
| LAMONT, Alan Montgomery | Director | 1989-09-01 | 1993-04-23 |
| LAURENSON, Robert Andrew | Director | — | 1990-09-28 |
| LUBBOCK, Andrew John Nicholas | Director | — | 1993-01-16 |
| MACDONALD, Neil | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2022-06-17 |
| MATHER, Graeme | Director | 2013-02-18 | 2021-04-04 |
| MCCALL, Hamish Cleland | Director | 2014-03-17 | 2021-11-10 |
| MORRIS, Robert William Wilson | Director | 1993-05-17 | 1998-03-27 |
| MURRAY, Hunter Thomas | Director | 1995-07-10 | 2013-11-29 |
| ORR, Christopher John | Director | 2018-01-08 | 2022-03-02 |
| RENWICK, Thomas | Director | 1993-02-19 | 2009-05-15 |
| ROSS, Brian Roy | Director | 2022-04-14 | 2025-07-31 |
| RUTHERFORD, William Lindsay | Director | 1991-02-01 | 1993-04-23 |
| SINCLAIR, Martin Fraser | Director | 1991-02-01 | 1993-04-23 |
| SMELLIE, Robert | Director | 2004-04-12 | 2012-06-15 |
| STARK, Ian Stuart | Director | 2008-04-14 | 2014-03-17 |
| STEWART, Allan Mather | Director | 1998-08-12 | 2006-10-16 |
| STEWART, Ian Alexander | Director | 2013-08-14 | 2020-03-23 |
| STEWART, John Allan Clark | Director | 1998-04-20 | 2012-12-20 |
| STRUTHERS, Thomas | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2019-02-28 |
| THOMSON, Iain Marshall | Director | 1991-02-01 | 1995-10-23 |
| YOUNG, Colin | Director | — | 1990-10-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 231 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-06-27 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+10.4%
£4,818,256 £5,319,936
-
Cash
+2.1%
£2,037,660 £2,080,393
-
Net assets
+3.6%
£15,279,076 £15,827,125
-
Employees
+9.8%
61 67
-
Operating profit
+59.1%
£562,225 £894,230
-
Profit before tax
+35.5%
£715,076 £969,090
-
Wages
+6.3%
£1,735,362 £1,844,250
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