LYLE & SCOTT LIMITED
Company number 04111248 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Lyle & Scott is a financially robust heritage brand with exceptional profitability (~18% PBT margin) and demonstrated crisis resilience, but faces strategic vulnerabilities in cash liquidity, third-party logistics dependency, and an evolving market that increasingly demands sustainability credentials alongside heritage narratives. The 150th anniversary and proprietary B2B platform investments represent significant near-term growth catalysts, provided the company addresses its thin cash position and formalises succession planning to protect the long-term value of this iconic asset.
Shareholders' funds
£29,894,837
Balance sheet as at 2023-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of sale of clothing, footwear and accessories.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-11-21
- Employees
- 147 (2023 accounts · was 124 in 2022)
- Registered office
- 37 Kentish Town Road, London, England, NW1 8NX
- Postcode
- NW1 8NX
- Capital
- 1,880,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-27
- Next due by
- 2026-11-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46420 Wholesale of clothing and footwear
Officers 3 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ELLANESS HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2021-01-18
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1587188 (Tier 2), registered since 2008.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MEAUJO (522) LIMITED | 2001-03-30 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| TS2 PINEWOOD BUSINESS PARK COLESHILL ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7HG | 2019-09-11 |
| C/O WATERLINKS INVESTMENTS LTD, FARADAY WHARF BIRMINGHAM SCIENCE PARK, HOLT STREET, BIRMINGHAM, WESY MIDLANDS, B7 4BB | 2015-08-31 |
| UNIT 3 ASHTED LOCK, DARTMOUTH MIDDLEWAY, BIRMINGHAM SCIENCE PARK ASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B7 4AZ, UK | 2013-09-01 |
| UNIT 3 ASHTED LOCK, DARTMOUTH MIDDLEWAY, ASTON SCIENCE PARK, BIRMINGHAM, B7 4AZ | 2011-05-26 |
| 45A WATERLINKS HOUSE, RICHARD STREET, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B7 4AA | 2007-10-19 |
| SAINT, PHILIPS HOUSE, SAINT, PHILLIPS PLACE BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 2PP | 2001-04-17 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 184 similar companies in NW
The largest employer among its local peers (147 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2000.
No.1 of the largest wholesale of clothing and footwear companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of clothing and footwear in London.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,535 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.