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Company description
HIGHLAND FUELS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 3 June 1957; registered for 69 years; registered office reported in ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46719 · Wholesale of other fuels and related products.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported profit after tax £6,031,724, net assets £34,719,357, average employees 254. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 trade mark, 3 procurement records. 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
- HIGHLAND FUELS LIMITED
- Company number
- SC032343
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 10 total · 3 outstanding · 7 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 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
2 March 2026Next statement due
16 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- £6,031,724
- Fixed assets
- £8,927,751
- Net assets
- £34,719,357
- Current assets
- £53,248,262
- Current liabilities
- £25,575,716
- Cash at bank
- £9,076,015
- Equity
- £34,719,357
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 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Filed
- 19 June 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-2
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £28,449,282
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,873,665
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £606,663
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £2,871
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 9.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 9.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
The company operates a strict policy of paying suppliers within contractual terms. Instances where invoices are paid out with contractual terms relate to specific queries/disputes which are resolved expediently with Suppliers.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are as agreed with Suppliers or as per their standard terms and conditions.
- Dispute resolution process
Any disputes or complaints in the first instance are generally promptly resolved by the Purchase Ledger Supervisor or the Manager within the company responsible for authorising the invoices in question. On any rare occasions where these are not resolved, they are escalated to the Finance Director or Director with authorising responsibility depending on the nature of the invoice in question. Disputes or complaints are normally resolved within 5 working days.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 21.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 24.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay11.0% 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.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Highland Fuels Limited
Registration Z5713005
- Registered from
- 18 October 2001
- Current end date
- 17 October 2026
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Fuel Quote- NLV Pharos
Northern Lighthouse Board · ocds-b5fd17-35173bbf-ec62-4144-a5b2-508376e5c467
- Supplier named in award
- Highland Fuels
- Award value
- £90,000
- Contract period
- 29 January 2024 – 29 January 2024
- Published
- 29 January 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 09100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-35173bbf-ec62-4144-a5b2-508376e5c467-2024-01-29T08:55:04Z
National Fuels (2)
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-3e2331b7-5a2d-42fe-a8be-342e52ecc803
- Supplier named in award
- Highland Fuels Ltd
- Award value
- £2,000,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 February 2021 – 31 January 2025
- Published
- 19 January 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 09100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-3e2331b7-5a2d-42fe-a8be-342e52ecc803-2021-01-19T11:35:17Z
Supply of UK Bulk Ground Fuels 2020-2022 (Lot 104)
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE · ocds-b5fd17-1265e16f-b5dc-43e1-afe4-9a7d0a50f2ac
- Supplier named in award
- HIGHLAND FUELS LIMITED
- Award value
- £128,200
- Contract period
- 1 December 2020 – 30 November 2022
- Published
- 30 October 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 09100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1265e16f-b5dc-43e1-afe4-9a7d0a50f2ac-2020-10-30T12:00:23Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Highland Fuels Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (Scotland)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sc215790
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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08 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.
09 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.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 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.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
15 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
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.