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The Scottish American Investment Company P L C
Active 153 years old · 5th oldest PLC on the register · incorporated in the 1870s
Registered office
3 HAYMARKET SQUARE, EDINBURGH, EH3 8RY
Other PLCs registered in Edinburgh
Online
No website could be identified for this company.
Filing history
This company has 661 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 12/08/2026. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 20/04/2026.
The most recent filings
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Who runs it
The register lists 6 current officers and 18 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 5 registered charges, of which 1 are not yet recorded as satisfied.
Apex Corporate Trustees (UK) Limited (as Trustee for Itself and the Other Secured Creditors) Outstanding, created 25/06/2021
Irg Trustees Limited Fully satisfied, created 27/06/2000
Royal Exchange Trust Company Limited Fully satisfied, created 10/04/1997
Caledonian Insurance Company Fully satisfied, created 22/06/1983
Caledonian Insurance Company as Trustees Fully satisfied, created 15/12/1982
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
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Also at EH3 8RY
- Baillie Gifford Japan Trust Public Limited Company (The)
- Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon Public Limited Company
- Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust PLC
- Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
- The Edinburgh Investment Trust Public Limited Company
A shared registered office is not evidence of a relationship. Formation agents and genuine groups look identical on the register.
On the register
- 5th oldest of 4,506 PLCs
- One of the 1870s 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.