BARR FARMS LIMITED
Company number SC256406 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Barr Farms Limited is a financially fortress-like Scottish dairy business — £6.04M of unlevered equity, £3.06M of net current assets, and a nine-year equity CAGR of roughly 17.9% — that has earned the right to grow but has not yet converted balance-sheet strength into scale or margin differentiation. Its decisive advantages are an almost debt-free capital structure, an appreciating land and asset base, and stable family control that permits long-horizon investment; its decisive vulnerabilities are single-sector commodity-price exposure, an unproven return on a £1.39M capital deployment, and a sharp shift from cash to receivables that concentrates liquidity risk. The strategic imperative is to move deliberately from passive balance-sheet accumulation to active value capture — through consolidation, price and contract strategy, and diversified income — before milk-price cyclicality and agricultural subsidy reform set the agenda on the company's behalf.
Shareholders' funds
£6,044,757
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is farming
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-09-22
- Employees
- 19 (2025 accounts · was 20 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Easter Row, Dunblane, Stirling, United Kingdom, FK15 9NZ
- Postcode
- FK15 9NZ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-22
- Next due by
- 2027-10-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1410 Raising of dairy cattle
Officers 2 current · 4 resigned
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| MELDRUM FARM BLAIR DRUMMOND, NEAR STIRLING, STIRLINGSHIRE, FK9 4UX | 2016-12-21 |
| HOTTS FARM, WATERBECK, LOCKERBIE, DUMFRIESSHIRE, DG11 3HA | 2012-09-27 |
| HOTTS FARM, WATERBECK, LOCKERBIE, DUMFRIESSHIRE DG11 3HA | 2006-12-28 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 85 similar companies in FK — measured against the wider sector
2nd largest employer among its local peers (19 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.
The class of 2003
38%
of the 163,090 companies incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.