EASTERN WESTERN MOTOR GROUP LIMITED
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Cash
£66m
+10.2% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£70m
+0.2% vs 2024
Employees
1,566
+2.9% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£6.7m
-28.9% lowest in 3 filed years
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Our short-form breakdown of EASTERN WESTERN MOTOR GROUP LIMITED's latest filing
Scotland's Eastern Western Motor Group pulled in £894m last year. Turnover slipped, but the drop is mostly down to an agency-model quirk for Mini and Honda 🚗📊
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £859,386,000 | £921,666,000 | £893,547,000 | -3.1% | |
| Operating profit | £18,145,000 | £13,811,000 | £10,694,000 | -22.6% | |
| Profit before tax | £14,796,000 | £9,486,000 | £6,747,000 | -28.9% | |
| Net profit | £11,295,000 | £7,090,000 | £5,106,000 | -28% | |
| Cash | £41,117,000 | £60,153,000 | £66,309,000 | +10.2% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £69,955,000 | £71,287,000 | £71,602,000 | +0.4% | |
| Net assets | £68,774,000 | £69,614,000 | £69,720,000 | +0.2% | |
| Equity | £68,774,000 | £69,614,000 | £69,720,000 | +0.2% | |
| Average employees | 1,461 | 1,522 | 1,566 | +2.9% | |
| Wages | £53,978,000 | £57,937,000 | £60,680,000 | +4.7% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £4,068,488 | £3,167,642 | £2,843,726 | -10.2% | |
| Highest paid director | £1,148,940 | £957,282 | £809,617 | -15.4% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.1% | 1.5% | 1.2% | |
| Net margin | 1.3% | 0.8% | 0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.9% | 19.4% | 14.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 61.7% | 65.1% | 71.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53x | 1.45x | 1.30x | |
| Interest cover | 5.42x | 3.19x | 2.71x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EASTERN WESTERN MOTOR GROUP LIMITED 1994-03-21 → present
- WESTERN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY LIMITED 1962-11-30 → 1994-03-21
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- EASTERN WESTERN MOTOR GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Western Automobile Company Limited 100%
- Eastern Motor Company Limited 100%
- Foxburgh Limited 100%
- Independent Cars (U.K.) Limited 100%
- Grassick's Garage Limited 100%
- Barnett's Motor Group 100%
- Alex F Noble & Son Limited 100%
- Western Europa Limited 100%
- Car Deal Warehouse Limited 100%
- Westcars (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Westcars (Broomhill) Limited 100%
- Westcars Tayside Limited 100%
- Westcars Limited 100%
- Perth Honda Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1st November 2025, the group acquired the assets of Audi Edinburgh and Audi Stirling from Lookers Motor Group Limited for a consideration of £7,670,000.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOHAMMED, Nasser Abdul | Secretary | — | — | British |
| AFFLECK, Graham James | Director | 2023-01-01 | Dec 1972 | British |
| BROWN, Douglas John | Director | — | Jan 1963 | British |
| DUNCAN, Keith Alex Kinnear | Director | 2002-02-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
| LA TROBE, Christopher John Hugh | Director | 2023-01-01 | May 1971 | British |
| MOHAMMED, Nasser Abdul | Director | — | Jan 1957 | British |
| ROBB, Kenneth | Director | 2011-05-01 | Dec 1969 | British |
| WANG, Robert Magnus | Director | 2023-01-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLAN, William | Director | — | 1988-12-31 |
| COLLIN, Peter James | Director | 1996-03-01 | 2023-01-31 |
| JOHNSTON, Nicholas Paul | Director | — | 2006-06-30 |
| WATT, William Andrew Brian | Director | — | 2009-10-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-02-25 | Active |
| Mr Douglas John Brown | Individual | Appoints directors | 2016-04-07 | Ceased 2022-02-25 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 155 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-02-25 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-02-25 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.