WILLIAM MORTON LIMITED
Company number SC056257 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
William Morton Limited is in excellent financial health, with a transformed balance sheet that has seen net assets triple from £1.89M (2020) to £6.29M (2025) and total liabilities reduced by approximately £3.9M over the same period. Revenue has recovered strongly to £74.7M, and the business is generating healthy cash flows with £3.84M in cash at year-end. The principal area requiring attention is the inherently thin profit margins (approximately 2.4-2.6%) characteristic of the wholesale beverage sector, which leaves the business vulnerable to cost inflation and regulatory changes — risks the directors are actively managing through forward contracts, stock management, and cash preservation.
Shareholders' funds
£6,288,826
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of the wholesaling of wines, spirits, beers and soft drinks.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1974-08-26
- Employees
- 141 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 7 Evanton Drive, Thornliebank Industrial Estate, Glasgow, Scotland, G46 8HL
- Postcode
- G46 8HL
- Capital
- 6,248 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2026-08-03
- Next due by
- 2027-08-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46342 Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages
Officers 7 current · 9 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by ABA EQUITY LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA306709 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 137 SHAWBRIDGE STREET, POLLOCKSHAWS, GLASGOW, G43 1QQ | 2015-09-15 |
| 7 EVANTON DRIVE, THORNLIEBANK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, GLSAGOW, G46 8BL, SCOTLAND | 2015-09-15 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 126 similar companies in G
2nd largest employer among its local peers (141 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1974.
Competitors Glasgow
This company ranks 5 among wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages in Glasgow.
The class of 1974
54%
of the 5,336 companies incorporated in 1974 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.