Loch Alba Trout Ltd
Registered name: LOCH ALBA TROUT LTD
Part of Loch Alba Group Ltd groupLoch Alba Trout Ltd made £38.3m revenue and a £83k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Loch Alba Trout Ltd’s revenue was £38.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £83k and 42 employees. The company is classified under “marine aquaculture” and is based in Stornoway; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stornoway, Scotland
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £28m | £28.7m | £38.3m |
| Cost of sales | £18.1m | £23.3m | £46.2m |
| Gross profit | £9.9m | £5.4m | −£7.9m |
| Operating profit | £7.6m | £750k | £69.4k |
| Profit before tax | £7.2m | £743k | −£83k |
| Profit after tax | £7.2m | £743k | −£83k |
| Profit (best available) | £7.2m | £743k | −£83k |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £2.1m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 58 | 42 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 25.9% | 2.6% | −0.2% |
| Gross margin | 35.4% | 18.9% | −20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £431k | £496k | £911k |
| Profit per employee | £111k | £12.8k | −£2k |
| Cash conversion | 44.8% | 358.5% | −1676% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £401k | £3m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £15.8m | £16.5m | £16.4m |
| Fixed assets | £6.5m | £5.9m | £7m |
| Current assets | £14.7m | £15.3m | £17.6m |
| Debtors | £881k | £1.6m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £1.3m | £1.2m | £271k |
| Cash from operations | £3.4m | £2.7m | −£1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £911k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −1676%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- 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
- —
- Now £16.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 42
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £271k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £7m
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
- Loch Alba Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Seaqurefarming 1 Limited75–100%
- Loch Alba Trout Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£83k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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