GILMOUR & AITKEN, LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-11 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£61K
+104.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£13M
+0.3% vs 2024
Employees
31
-6.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£58K
-45.8% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,620,085 | £8,442,594 | |
| Operating profit | £374,959 | £238,823 | |
| Profit before tax | £107,429 | £58,176 | |
| Net profit | £70,345 | £31,997 | |
| Cash | £30,007 | £61,428 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,819,468 | £12,814,972 | |
| Net assets | £12,695,620 | £12,727,617 | |
| Equity | £12,695,620 | £12,727,617 | |
| Average employees | 33 | 31 | |
| Wages | £1,045,152 | £1,008,656 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.9% | 2.8% | |
| Net margin | 0.7% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 2.9% | 1.9% | |
| Current ratio | 4.03x | 5.13x | |
| Interest cover | 1.40x | 1.32x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Alexander Sloan LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- GILMOUR & AITKEN, LIMITED · parent
- Aitken & Howard Limited 100%
- Aitken & Stewart Limited 100%
- Aitken & Howard Demerara 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITKEN, Nicola Livingstone | Secretary | 2022-10-21 | — | — |
| AITKEN, Alexander Cameron Wilson | Director | — | Apr 1947 | British |
| AITKEN, Roderick Mark | Director | 2013-04-01 | Oct 1980 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUDON, Walter Morris | Secretary | — | 2009-07-10 |
| LYNCH, Paul Gerard | Secretary | 2016-05-25 | 2022-02-22 |
| TRAIL, William Anthony | Secretary | 2009-07-24 | 2016-05-25 |
| AITKEN, Robert Thomas Moore | Director | — | 2017-12-14 |
| LOUDON, Walter Morris | Director | — | 2009-07-10 |
| MIDDLEMIST, Walter Ballantyne | Director | — | 2013-03-31 |
| WALLS, William Ross | Director | — | 1992-07-31 |
| YATES, Kenneth James | Director | — | 2015-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Robert Thomas Moore Aitken | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-12-14 |
| Mr Alexander Cameron William Aitken | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Roderick Mark Aitken | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-21 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-02-22 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-12-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2018-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-06-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2018-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-12.2%
£9,620,085 £8,442,594
-
Cash
+104.7%
£30,007 £61,428
-
Net assets
+0.3%
£12,695,620 £12,727,617
-
Employees
-6.1%
33 31
-
Operating profit
-36.3%
£374,959 £238,823
-
Profit before tax
-45.8%
£107,429 £58,176
-
Wages
-3.5%
£1,045,152 £1,008,656
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