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Merchants Trust Plc(The)
The Merchants Trust PLC aims to provide shareholders with an above average income with long term capital growth through investing in higher yielding UK companies. The company’s own description of itself, taken from its website.
Active 137 years old · 30th oldest PLC on the register · incorporated in the 1880s
Registered office
199 BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, EC2M 3TY
GLEIF records a different headquarters address: Bockenheimer Landstraße 42-44, Frankfurt am Main, 60323. A registered office is where filings are served, which for a large group is often its lawyers or company secretary rather than where the business is run.
Other PLCs registered in London
Online
Website www.merchantstrust.co.uk
News and announcements on their own site
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Filing history
This company has 561 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 27/07/2026. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 01/06/2026.
The most recent filings
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Who runs it
The register lists 6 current officers and 32 who have resigned.
Who controls it
The register shows no current person or entity with significant control for this company.
Charges
A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 8 registered charges, of which 6 are not yet recorded as satisfied.
M&G Trustee Company Limited Outstanding, created 21/01/2025
Scotiabank Europe PLC Outstanding, created 03/07/2019
Prudential Trustee Company Limited (As Security Trustee) Outstanding, created 18/12/2017
Prudential Trustee Company Limited Outstanding, created 20/12/1999
Fintrust Debenture PLC Fully satisfied, created 10/06/1993
Commercial Union Executor and Trustee Company Limited. Fully satisfied, created 17/12/1987
C. E. Bright; R. Bendon; Rt Hon. A.F. Baron Kennairdas Trustees Outstanding, created 05/08/1913
R. Benson; C E Bright; Rt Hon A.F. Baron Kennaird Outstanding, created 19/10/1910
Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.
What it does
This page is compiled from the public register. Companies House does not verify the information filed with it, so treat everything here as what the company reported rather than as established fact. For filings, officers and charges, see the official Companies House record.
Also at EC2M 3TY
A shared registered office is not evidence of a relationship. Formation agents and genuine groups look identical on the register.
On the register
- 30th oldest of 4,506 PLCs
- One of the 1880s cohort
- Not in liquidation or facing strike off
There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.