{"name":"THEW ARNOTT & CO.LIMITED","company_number":"00718598","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1962-03-21","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"270 London Road, Wallington, England, SM6 7DJ","postcode":"SM6 7DJ","sic_codes":[{"code":46900,"description":"Non-specialised wholesale trade"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the supply of ingredients and raw materials to the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and certain technical industries through agency/distribution agreements and direct sourcing as well as the production of lecithin blends and confectionery polishes and glazes.","previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Full","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2026-03-31","next_due":"2027-12-31"},"employees":{"count":41,"accounts_date":"2026-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-03-31","average_employees":41},{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","average_employees":42},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","turnover":19096053,"profit_loss":377514,"net_assets":4033323,"cash":1861331,"average_employees":41},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","turnover":19829616,"profit_loss":930262,"net_assets":3655809,"cash":661625,"average_employees":38},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":2725547,"cash":241511}],"officers":{"current":8,"resigned":7,"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":3,"outstanding":3},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Thew Arnott & Co. Limited is a niche specialist in UK specialty food-ingredient distribution and lecithin/confectionery-glaze manufacture, punching above its weight on gross margin (30.9%, upper-quartile for the sub-sector) but only mid-range on net margin (~2.0%) and return on equity (~10%), with turnover declining 3.7% as UK sales fell £1.98m against growing EU and non-EU exports. Its balance sheet is materially stronger than sector norms — 62.7% equity-funded with £1.86m cash (9.7% of turnover) and no dividend — reflecting a deliberately conservative, family-controlled capital policy that provides resilience but also signals limited reinvestment ambition. Against consolidating pan-European distributors such as Azelis, IMCD and Barentz, the company is a protected niche player rather than a scale competitor, and its principal strategic risks are key-person concentration (11 employees), continued UK share erosion, and the structural input-cost exposure of its lecithin franchise to geopolitical supply shocks.","website":"https://www.thewarnott.com","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/thew-arnott-colimited","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00718598","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/thew-arnott-colimited/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/thew-arnott-colimited"}