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Company No. SC064650 · Incorporated 18 Apr 1978

Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Limited

Registered name: MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY (EDINBURGH) LIMITED

Part of Bertelsmann UK Limited group

Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £76.9k.

Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £76.9k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “book publishing” and is based in Edinburgh; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.

Balance sheet onlySection J · Information and communicationSIC 58110Book publishing
Status
Active
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland
Age
48 yrs · since 1978
Type
Private Limited Company

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.

Latest accounts · year to 31 Dec 2025

Key figures

Small team

Revenue not disclosed

Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.

We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.

Employees
0
Net assets
£76.9k

Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.

4 filed years

Financial history

Multi-year financials, oldest to newest
Year to31 Dec 202231 Dec 202331 Dec 202431 Dec 2025
DisclosureNo P&LNo P&LNo P&LNo P&L
Profit & loss
Revenue (turnover)————
Profit (best available)————
Employees (average)0000
Ratios
Profit margin————
Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue
Net assets£142k£86.2k£90.4k£76.9k
Current assets£237k£177k£174k£168k
Debtors£220k£160k£160k£154k
SourceAbridgedAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026
Indirect — not revenue

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
▼15%
Now £76.9k
Cash at bank
—
Now —
Headcount
—
Now 0
Deferred income
—
Now —
Fixed assets
—
Now —
Corporate ownership

Group structure

Ownership chain

  1. Bertelsmann UK Limitedultimate parent75–100%
  2. Penguin Random House Limited75–100%
  3. The Random House Group Limited75–100%
  4. Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Limitedthis company

Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.

Sister companies (39)

From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).

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Sources

Companies House profile Filing history & original accounts

Latest figures from AbridgedAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

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