ABERDEEN JOURNALS LIMITED

Company number SC015256 ·

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Shareholders' funds

£3,535,214

Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31

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What it does

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of DC Thomson & Company Limited. The company's principal activities are the printing and publishing of newspapers in Aberdeen and the North of Scotland.

The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.

Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1928-09-22
Employees
143 (2025 accounts · was 157 in 2024)
Registered office
Courier Buildings, 2 Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 9QJ
Postcode
DD1 9QJ
Capital
10,001 GBP
Accounts category
Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-03-31
Next due by
2026-12-31
Financial year end
31 March

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-07-31
Next due by
2027-08-14
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 18110 Printing of newspapers
  • 58130 Publishing of newspapers

Officers 5 current · 26 resigned

Peter MCCALL Secretary
Appointed 2026-04-01
MANAGING DIRECTOR Appointed 2013-09-27
Appointed 2006-04-02
PUBLISHER Appointed 2006-04-02
Appointed 2006-04-02

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Group structure

Controlled by D.C. THOMSON & COMPANY LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z479700X (Tier 2), registered since 2000.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

13.3%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2018/19

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Contact details

Website
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk

Previous registered addresses 2

AddressChanged on
LANG STRACHT MASTRICK, ABERDEEN, AB15 6DF2018-09-10
LANG STRACHT, MASTRICK, ABERDEEN, AB9 8AF2008-08-06

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 16 similar companies in DD — measured against the wider sector

The largest employer among its local peers (143 staff).

The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1928.