LINN PRODUCTS LIMITED
Company number SC052366 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Linn Products Limited is a well-established, profitable manufacturer of premium home audio equipment with over 50 years of trading history. The company exhibits exceptional financial strength with minimal leverage (liabilities at only ~10% of assets), consistently growing net assets (£17.2m to £19.6m over 2022-2025), and strong cash generation evidenced by a £5.0m cash balance and the capacity to pay £1.5m in dividends whilst investing £3.2m in R&D. The credit profile is robust, though monitoring should focus on the recently noted 4% sales decline, key-person dependency on the founding Tiefenbrun family, and the inherent cyclicality of discretionary consumer electronics spending.
Shareholders' funds
£19,569
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the group in the year under review was the manufacture and worldwide distribution of home audio equipment from our Glasgow base.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1973-02-19
- Employees
- 170 (2025 accounts · was 168 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Glasgow Road, Waterfoot, Eaglesham, Glasgow, G76 0EQ
- Postcode
- G76 0EQ
- Capital
- 685,117 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-08-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 26400 Manufacture of consumer electronics
Officers 9 current · 14 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
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OPENHOME LABS LTD Dissolved
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OPENHOME LTD Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Contact details
- Website
- linn.co.uk
Linn design and make the best music systems in the world, precision engineered and hand-built with pride in Scotland since 1973.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GLASGOW ROAD, WATERFOOT, EAGLESHAM, GLASGOW, G76 0EP | 2004-03-18 |
| 257 DRAKEMIRE DRIVE, CASTLEMILK, GLASGOW, G45 | 1987-08-12 |
Among its peers
The largest employer
of 11 similar companies in G, with 170 staff. The oldest of its local peers.
Competitors Glasgow
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3. JCAM LTD
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4. MERGIC LTD
This company ranks 5 among manufacture of consumer electronics in Glasgow.
The class of 1973
52%
of the 7,317 companies incorporated in 1973 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.