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Company description
ABERDEEN JOURNALS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 22 September 1928; registered for 97 years; registered office reported in DUNDEE, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 18110 · Printing of newspapers, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 March 2025, it reported profit after tax £2,867,963, average employees 1. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 11 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- ABERDEEN JOURNALS LIMITED
- Company number
- SC015256
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
31 July 2025Next statement due
14 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit before tax
- £3,827,986
- Profit after tax
- £2,867,963
- Fixed assets
- £1,418,992
- Current assets
- £4,679,219
- Current liabilities
- £2,562,997
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £3,535,214
- Cash at bank
- £6,082
- Equity
- £3,535,214
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 80.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 44.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 39.7%
- Men receiving bonus
- 17.1%
- Women in top quartile
- 36.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 38.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 54.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 66.0%
Earlier reporting years (1)
- 250 to 49917.1% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2021 – 30 June 2021
- Filed
- 23 November 2021
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 61.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
as per terms and conditions on our website
- Dispute resolution process
as per terms and conditions on our website
Earlier payment reports (7 shown)
- 25.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay89.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay87.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 33.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
THE ABERDONIAN
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,35,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2027
SCOT-ADS.COM
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,35,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 December 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 December 2025
SCOTCARS
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,35,39,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 December 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 December 2025
SCOT-ADS
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,35,39,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 December 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 December 2025
SCOTADS
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,35,39,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 December 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 December 2025
PRESS AND JOURNAL
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,18,24,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2019
THE VOICE OF THE NORTH
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,18,24,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2019
P AND J
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 9,16,18,24,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2019
Citizen
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 18 August 1982
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 August 2023
THE PRESS AND JOURNAL
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 3 October 1980
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 October 2021
SCOT-CARS YOUR ON THE ROAD PAPER
Owner Aberdeen Journals Limited · classes 16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 22 June 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 June 2005
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Dc Thomson & Company Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Scotland
- Registration number
- Sc005830
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Publishing of newspapers
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.