JACOBS & TURNER LIMITED
Company number SC047678 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Jacobs & Turner (Trespass) demonstrates the resilience of value-oriented outdoor brands in challenging retail conditions, delivering 10% revenue growth and significant operating margin recovery to 3.5%, though this remains below well-managed peers achieving 5–8%. The vertically integrated model and strong balance sheet (£64m shareholders' funds) provide strategic flexibility, but the pronounced cash decline—from £31.6m in 2022 to £5.7m in 2025—warrants scrutiny regarding working capital management and the returns being generated on recent capital investment. The company is a solid mid-tier player rather than a sector leader, with its value positioning offering cyclical protection but limiting pricing power against both premium specialists and aggressive generalist competitors.
Shareholders' funds
£64,091,182
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-29
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1970-06-25
- Employees
- 1864 (2025 accounts · was 1913 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Vermont House, 149 Vermont Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow, G41 1LU
- Postcode
- G41 1LU
- Capital
- 505,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-29
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-15
- Next due by
- 2026-12-29
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46420 Wholesale of clothing and footwear
- 47710 Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
Officers 6 current · 4 resigned
Group structure 16 subsidiaries
Showing 12 of 16.
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2020 (period to 2020-03-31).
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Gender pay gap
0.81%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 341 ARGYLE STREET, GLASGOW, G2 8LP | 1999-09-24 |
| REGISTERED OFFICE CHANGED | 1970-06-25 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED | 1970-06-25 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 78 similar companies in G
The largest employer among its local peers (1864 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1970.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of clothing and footwear companies in Glasgow →
Competitors Glasgow
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of clothing and footwear in Glasgow.
The class of 1970
54%
of the 3,725 companies incorporated in 1970 are still active today; 40% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 9 titles
- Freehold
- 5
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2023-09-07
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,255,000
- Where
- Cumberland (5), Westmorland And Furness (2), West Yorkshire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU250538 | Westmorland And Furness | Freehold | 2023-09-07 | £1,170,000 |
| YY184958 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2023-08-15 | — |
| CU37139 | Westmorland And Furness | Freehold | 2017-06-02 | £930,000 |
| GR343811 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2010-04-30 | — |
| CU125343 | Cumberland | Freehold | 2006-11-14 | — |
| CU125346 | Cumberland | Leasehold | 2006-11-01 | — |
| CU125626 | Cumberland | Freehold | 2006-11-01 | £155,000 |
| CU126030 | Cumberland | Leasehold | 2006-11-01 | — |
| CU30080 | Cumberland | Freehold | 2006-11-01 | — |
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