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Company description
WALKER'S SHORTBREAD LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 6 October 1977; registered for 49 years; registered office reported in ABERLOUR-ON-SPEY, BANFFSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 10720 · Manufacture of rusks and biscuits; manufacture of preserved pastry goods and cakes.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2025, it reported profit after tax £8,245,000, net assets £96,499,000, average employees 12. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 10 PSC 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
- WALKER'S SHORTBREAD LTD
- Company number
- SC063233
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 2 outstanding · 1 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 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
31 May 2026Next statement due
14 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- £8,245,000
- Fixed assets
- £26,592,000
- Net assets
- £96,499,000
- Current assets
- £81,059,000
- Current liabilities
- £15,920,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £94,885,000
- Cash at bank
- £16,950,000
- Equity
- £96,499,000
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.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Accounts£99,720,000 net assets
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 5.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 2.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 97.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 96.1%
- Women in top quartile
- 39.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 48.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 47.9%
- Women in lower quartile
- 45.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 4999-0.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-1.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-1.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49991.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.8% 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 July 2019 – 31 December 2019
- Filed
- 12 March 2020
- Shortest standard term
- 31 days
- Longest standard term
- 61 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-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
- 15.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 61 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are end of month following the invoice date. There are variations to these standard terms that are applied when negotiated and agreed by both parties.
- Dispute resolution process
If a dispute or query arises on an invoice, in general the issue is resolved either by phone or a dedicated email address. All disputes are dealt with as they arise and followed up regularly as required. If needs be the dispute can be escalated to more senior company representative, currently the Finance Manager and/or Head of Purchasing.
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 18.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay20.0% 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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WALKER'S SHORTBREAD LTD
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Approved
- 21 March 2025
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
Organisation structure
Not reported as covered
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Not reported as covered
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 20 June 2025
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
We review working hours to ensure we meet with the working time directive and run a third party annual employee opinion survey. Meet with our union reps and voluntary employee forum.
Demonstrated progress
We have set progress goals for our next statement
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Direct recruitment of a large volume of seasonal employees
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: Stronger Together Responsible recruitment training for the recruitment team. Awareness of trends and ongoing risks reported and discussed at regular meetings. Stronger Together Modern Slavery training for any new team members
- Risk: Use of an employment agency to support recruitment of a large volume of seasonal recruitment.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Mitigation: Careful selection of agency to ensure robust policies and procedures. Working with Scotland Against Modern Slavery to understand the current climate and learn from other businesses to understand best practice. Arrange for Smeta 2 pillar audit to be carried out once agency has commenced working
- Risk: Understanding and assessing risks within the supply chain
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Children
- Mitigation: We have mapped out our entire supply chain, we currently use SEDEX and encourage all our suppliers to engage with this platform. Where this is not possible we monitor ourselves. This is ever evolving and we are identifying ways to improve our processes and work better with our supply chain.
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Joseph Nicol Walker
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 7 August 2020
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-06-23T00:00:00Z
Mr Ewan Paton Wallace
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 4 April 2019
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z
Mr James David WalkerSee 11 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 13 September 2018
- Ceased
- 11 October 2018
Mr Peter Lewis SimpsonSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 13 September 2018
- Ceased
- 11 October 2018
Mr Kenneth Stuart Fraser
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 31 May 2017
- Ceased
- 13 July 2021
Mrs Maureen May Walker
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 31 May 2017
- Ceased
- 22 November 2025
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2025-12-14T00:00:00Z
Mrs Jennifer Ann WalkerSee 8 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 20 September 2016
- Ceased
- 13 July 2021
Mr James Nicol WalkerSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 15 December 2024
Mr Joseph WalkerSee 30 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 6 August 2020
Ms Marjorie Henderson Walker
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Scotland
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 13 September 2018
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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.
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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.
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.
10 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.
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.
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.
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
- Company name
Previous name: WALKERS SHORTBREAD LIMITED
- 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.
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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company 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.