The Pitreavie Group Limited
Registered name: THE PITREAVIE GROUP LIMITED
Part of Macfarlane Group Plc groupThe Pitreavie Group Limited made £360k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
The Pitreavie Group Limited reported £360k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025, down 74% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 5 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | £408k | £355k | £1.4m | £360k |
| Profit (best available) | £408k | £355k | £1.4m | £360k |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £349k | £72k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Profit growth | — | ▼13% | ▲293.6% | ▼74.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▲25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £174 | £26 | £1.3k | £109k |
| Net assets | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.9m |
| Fixed assets | £2.8m | £2.8m | £2.8m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £6.5k | £7.6k | £10k | £117k |
| Debtors | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Deferred income | £5k | £5.3k | £5.6k | £0 |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £72k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲6%
- Now £1.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8512%
- Now £109k
- Headcount
- ▲25%
- Now 5
- Deferred income
- ▼100%
- Now £0
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £2.8m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Macfarlane Group Plc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Macfarlane Group UK Limited75–100%
- The Pitreavie Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Pitreavie Packaging LimitedRev. £25m · Profit £694k
Sister companies (21)
- Nottingham Recycling LimitedRev. £1m · Profit −£94.3k
- A and G Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- A.e. Sutton LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Abbott's Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Allpack Packaging Supplies LimitedRev. — · Profit £496k
- B & D 2010 Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carnweather LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carters Packaging (Cornwall) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Ecopac (U.K.) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Greenwoods Stock Boxes LtdFigures not disclosed
- GWP Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Harrisons Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Leyland Packaging Company (Lancs) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Macfarlane Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mitchell Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Network Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- One Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Online Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Polyformes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Temperature Controlled Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tyler Packaging (Leicester) LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £360k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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