{"name":"HUTTON AND READ LIMITED","company_number":"SC190532","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1998-10-22","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Burnwynd Works, Kirknewton, Mid Lothian, EH27 8EA","postcode":"EH27 8EA","sic_codes":[{"code":43390,"description":"Other building completion and finishing"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 May","last_made_up_to":"2025-05-31","next_due":"2027-02-28"},"employees":{"count":17,"accounts_date":"2025-05-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-05-31","net_assets":108513,"cash":125766,"average_employees":17},{"financial_date":"2024-05-31","net_assets":-36685,"cash":650,"average_employees":19},{"financial_date":"2023-05-31","net_assets":32671,"cash":16808},{"financial_date":"2022-05-31","net_assets":20827,"cash":47770},{"financial_date":"2021-05-31","net_assets":-27511,"cash":166146}],"officers":{"current":3,"resigned":8,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":2,"outstanding":2},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Hutton and Read is a long-established niche joinery manufacturer and small-works contractor in the Edinburgh market, exhibiting the thin capitalisation and working-capital volatility typical of SME finishing contractors, but with a worse-than-average record of negative equity episodes over the past decade. FY2025 marks a decisive recovery — an implied ~£145k profit, restored positive equity of £108.5k, and cash rebuilt to £125.8k from a precarious £650 — placing margins above sector norms for small contractors. Its longevity, dual manufacturing/contracting model, and low gearing are genuine strengths, but the FY2024 liquidity squeeze underlines the structural fragility common to businesses of this scale in the UK's most insolvency-prone sector.","website":"https://www.huttonandread.co.uk/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/hutton-and-read","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC190532","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/hutton-and-read/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/hutton-and-read"}