MCPHERSON LIMITED
Company number SC218508 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
McPherson Limited presents a fundamentally sound financial profile with substantial net assets, healthy cash reserves, and improving margins, supported by reputable governance and a long operational track record in spirits industry logistics. However, the explicitly identified sector downturn—with customers reducing output and the company already cutting headcount and fleet—introduces meaningful near-term uncertainty that warrants close monitoring of trading performance and liability management throughout the current financial year.
Shareholders' funds
£29,934,781
Balance sheet as at 2025-07-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-04-25
- Employees
- 457 (2025 accounts · was 468 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Third Floor, The Capitol, 431 Union Street, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, AB11 6DA
- Postcode
- AB11 6DA
- Capital
- 47,300 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-30
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-10
- Next due by
- 2027-06-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49410 Freight transport by road
Officers 6 current · 7 resigned
Gender pay gap
0%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · in the top 10% for parity
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LEDGE 589 LIMITED | 2001-06-22 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 13 QUEEN'S ROAD, ABERDEEN, AB15 4YL | 2017-10-17 |
| JOHNSTONE HOUSE, 52-54 ROSE STREET, ABERDEEN, AB10 1UD | 2012-09-23 |
| JOHNSTONE HOUSE, 52-54 ROSE STREET, ABERDEEN AB10 1HA | 2006-06-02 |
| 1 GOLDEN SQUARE, ABERDEEN, AB10 1HA | 2001-06-22 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 121 similar companies in AB
The largest employer among its local peers (457 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
No.1 of the largest freight transport by road companies in Aberdeen →
Competitors Aberdeen
This company ranks 1 among freight transport by road in Aberdeen.
The class of 2001
44%
of the 517 companies in this sector incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 53% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.