GLENAPP ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-22 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£386K
+841.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£35M
+3.1% vs 2024
Employees
34
-2.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£866K
-45.7% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,323,358 | £4,741,258 | |
| Operating profit | £1,771,531 | £994,583 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,594,926 | £865,955 | |
| Net profit | £1,515,998 | £1,085,105 | |
| Cash | £40,996 | £385,825 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £40,853,314 | £41,663,763 | |
| Net assets | £34,278,205 | £35,357,276 | |
| Equity | £34,278,205 | £35,357,276 | |
| Average employees | 35 | 34 | |
| Wages | £789,582 | £863,767 |
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 | 41.0% | 21.0% | |
| Net margin | 35.1% | 22.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.3% | 2.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 29.1% | 29.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.29x | 0.39x | |
| Interest cover | 10.03x | 7.73x |
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
- Dodd & Co Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On the basis of this support, the directors consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that would result from a withdrawal of banking facilities or a withdrawal of financial support from fellow group companies.”
Group structure
- GLENAPP ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Glenapp Farms Limited 100%
- Pearsie Estate Company Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 19th January 2018, a charge was registered under which the lands and estates of Glenapp, Auchairne and Finnarts, in the Parish of Ballantrae and County of Ayr, were placed as security to a loan facility agreement undertaken by Gray Dawes Travel Limited. This charge continues to be outstanding.”
- “On 13th June 2019, a floating charge was registered for the loan facility agreement that was entered into by the company for the purchase of neighbouring farmland. A standard security charge was also registered on 10th July 2019 in respect of the same loan facility for the largest neighbouring farm which was purchased, Meadowpark Farm, Ballantrae, Girvan.”
- “On 14th March 2023, a floating charge was registered for the loan facility agreement that was entered into by the company for the purchase of neighbouring farmland.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN AND COMPANY (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2019-12-02 | — | — |
| INCHCAPE, Georgina, Lady | Director | 2006-07-01 | Jun 1945 | British |
| INCHCAPE, Kenneth Peter Lyle, Earl Of Inchcape | Director | — | Jan 1943 | British |
| MACKAY, Fergus James Kenneth, Viscount Glenapp | Director | 2009-04-01 | Jul 1979 | British |
| MACKAY, James Jonathan Thorn, Hon | Director | 2003-01-23 | May 1947 | British |
| RUSSELL, Charles William | Director | 2016-12-01 | May 1976 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATT, Sally Elizabeth | Secretary | 2003-02-28 | 2019-12-02 |
| INCHCAPE FAMILY TRUSTEES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 1993-03-02 |
| MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 1997-06-24 | 2003-02-28 |
| MURRAY BEITH MURRAY WS | Corporate Secretary | 1993-03-02 | 1997-06-25 |
| ARMSTRONG, Colin Robert | Director | 1996-04-29 | 2010-07-31 |
| BERRY, William | Director | 1990-04-26 | 2003-02-26 |
| BUTTERWICK, Antony James | Director | 1992-09-23 | 2000-04-28 |
| CHOLMELEY, Caroline, The Rt Hon Countess Of Inchcape | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| DEWAR, David | Director | 2004-02-01 | 2009-04-01 |
| EDGERTON, Nigel Arthur | Director | — | 1990-09-12 |
| ESCOMBE, Alan Rowland Lingard | Director | — | 1992-11-20 |
| GEMMELL, William Ruthven | Director | 1992-09-23 | 2003-03-31 |
| JOHN, David Glyndwr, Sir | Director | 1999-11-24 | 2003-01-23 |
| MACKAY, Kenneth James William, The Rt Hon Earl Of Inchcape | Director | — | 1994-03-17 |
| PEASE, Christopher Berkeley | Director | 2003-01-23 | 2016-12-01 |
| RABIN, Stanley Neville | Director | 1990-04-26 | 1992-03-31 |
| WALL, Michael Edward St Quintin | Director | 1996-04-29 | 1999-11-24 |
| YOUNGER, Hugh Patrick | Director | 1990-09-12 | 1992-09-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earl Of Inchcape Kenneth Peter Lyle Inchcape | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 168 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-03 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2026-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 15
- 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
+9.7%
£4,323,358 £4,741,258
-
Cash
+841.1%
£40,996 £385,825
-
Net assets
+3.1%
£34,278,205 £35,357,276
-
Employees
-2.9%
35 34
-
Operating profit
-43.9%
£1,771,531 £994,583
-
Profit before tax
-45.7%
£1,594,926 £865,955
-
Wages
+9.4%
£789,582 £863,767
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