{"name":"BARR FARMS LIMITED","company_number":"SC256406","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2003-09-22","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Easter Row, Dunblane, Stirling, United Kingdom, FK15 9NZ","postcode":"FK15 9NZ","sic_codes":[{"code":1410,"description":"Raising of dairy cattle"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the company is farming","previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2025-03-31","next_due":"2026-12-31"},"employees":{"count":19,"accounts_date":"2025-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","net_assets":6044757,"average_employees":19},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","net_assets":5172584,"cash":1273145,"average_employees":20},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","net_assets":4930553,"cash":1007347},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":3750803,"cash":398237},{"financial_date":"2021-03-31","net_assets":3151407,"cash":112528}],"officers":{"current":2,"resigned":4,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_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.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/barr-farms","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC256406","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/barr-farms/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/barr-farms"}