DOWNLAND MARKETING LIMITED
Company number 00937379 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Downland Marketing Limited is a long-established agricultural marketing business with a 57-year track record and steadily growing equity base, now standing at £219,907. The balance sheet is liquid with £379k cash and a current ratio of 1.43x, but significant balance sheet volatility between 2020-2025 and substantial creditor levels of £509k require further investigation. Credit approval is recommended on a conditional basis, subject to receipt of full management accounts to establish trading profitability and clarify the drivers behind recent balance sheet fluctuations.
Shareholders' funds
£219,907
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is agricultural marketing and buying
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1968-08-16
- Employees
- 13 (2025 accounts · was 11 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Warwick Mill Business Centre Warwick Mill Business Park, Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, United Kingdom, CA4 8RR
- Postcode
- CA4 8RR
- Capital
- 3 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-28
- Next due by
- 2027-03-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1629 Support activities for animal production (other than farm animal boarding and care) not elsewhere classified
Officers 8 current · 33 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA278340 (Tier 1), registered since 2017.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- downland.co.uk
- Phone
- 07341850958, 07903020341, 01228564498
Downland delivers farming excellence across the UK, recognised for our exceptional franchise partners who provide invaluable advice and solutions for their own local farming community.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| DOWNLAND TRADING COMPANY LIMITED(THE) | 1984-11-16 |
| CHEMVET (BRANDING) LIMITED | 1981-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 15 VICTORIA PLACE, CARLISLE, CUMBRIA, CA1 1EW | 2020-05-22 |
| FAIRVIEW HOUSE, VICTORIA PLACE, CARLISLE, CUMBRIA CA1 1HP | 2002-01-29 |
| 25 LOWTHER STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CUMBRIA CA28 7DG | 2001-08-02 |
| 8 KING STREET, WIGTON, CUMBRIA CA7 9DT | 2000-09-06 |
| 15 VICTORIA PLACE, CARLISLE, CA1 1EW | 2000-08-18 |
| EQUIPOISE HOUSE, GROVE PLACE, BEDFORD, MK40 3LE | 1998-12-14 |
| 28 ELY PLACE, LONDON, EC1N 6TD | 1991-08-14 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 54 similar companies in CA
The largest employer among its local peers (13 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1968.
Competitors Carlisle
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1. J P HOLLIDAY
This company ranks 11 among support activities for animal production (other than farm animal boarding and care) not elsewhere classified in Carlisle.