ALEXANDER HARLEY SEEDS LIMITED
Company number SC065661 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Alexander Harley Seeds is a financially robust, asset-rich agricultural group with genuine competitive differentiation through its integrated breeding, production, and diversified service model. The strategic imperative is clear: arrest margin erosion through operational efficiency and working capital discipline while accelerating the commercialisation of its breeding pipeline to convert IP into scalable, royalty-based revenue. The family-owned structure provides patient capital for long-term investment, but must be balanced with professional governance to manage succession risk and ensure the business captures its considerable growth potential beyond current geographic and operational boundaries.
Shareholders' funds
£15,155,401
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-08-21
- Employees
- 86 (2025 accounts · was 88 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Thomanean, Milnathort, Kinross, KY13 0RF
- Postcode
- KY13 0RF
- Capital
- 409,823 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-14
- Next due by
- 2026-11-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1130 Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers
- 70100 Activities of head offices
Officers 5 current · 12 resigned
Group structure 7 subsidiaries
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KIRKFORTHAR POTATO CO. LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB035854 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
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Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 8 similar companies in KY
3rd largest employer among its local peers (86 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1978.
Competitors Dunfermline
This company ranks 1 among growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers in Dunfermline.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.