LYNHER DAIRY LIMITED
Company number 03320018 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Lynher Dairy Limited is a well-positioned artisan cheese producer with strong brand equity, award-winning products, and a steadily strengthening balance sheet, with net assets up 13.8% to £968,943 in 2024. Its strategic priorities should be to convert its brand recognition into higher-margin direct and export sales, while addressing its £277,962 working capital deficit to fund growth. With the right investment in brand, distribution, and capacity, the company can scale its premium Cornish positioning beyond its current niche.
Shareholders' funds
£828,927
Balance sheet as at 2019-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is specialised cheese production
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-02-18
- Employees
- 19 (2025 accounts · was 21 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Lynher Dairies, Ponsanooth, Truro, England, TR3 7JQ
- Postcode
- TR3 7JQ
- Capital
- 200,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 6 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-27
- Next due by
- 2026-12-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 10512 Butter and cheese production
Officers 1 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
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LYNHER FARMS AND DAIRIES LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- lynherdairies.co.uk
- Phone
- 03031231113
Lynher Dairies in Cornwall is the sole maker of Cornish Kern, Supreme Champion World Cheese Awards 2017 and the iconic Cornish Yarg.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LYNHER DAIRIES LIMITED | 2026-01-08 |
| PENGREEP FARM LIMITED | 2016-07-04 |
| OVAL (1174) LIMITED | 1997-04-07 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| PENGREEP, PONSANOOTH, TRURO, CORNWALL, TR3 7JH | 2017-02-21 |
| PENGREEN HOUSE PENGREEN, PONSANOOTH, TRURO, CORNWALL | 1997-04-22 |
| PENGREEN HOUSE PENGREEN, PONSANOOTH, TRURO, CORNWALL | 1997-04-22 |
| 30 QUEEN CHARLOTTE STREET, BRISTOL, BS99 7QQ | 1997-04-03 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 82 similar companies in TR — measured against the wider sector
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
The class of 1997
43%
of the 50,528 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2016-08-02
- Where
- Cornwall (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL324676 | Cornwall | Freehold | 2016-08-02 | — |
| CL173879 | Cornwall | Freehold | 2001-08-17 | — |
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