Company registration number SC778575 (Scotland)
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
COMPANY INFORMATION
Director
Mr P E West
(Appointed 28 January 2025)
Company number
SC778575
Registered office
69 Pumpherston Road
Uphall Station
Livingston
EH54 5PH
Auditor
Thomson Cooper Accountants
3 Castle Court
Carnegie Campus
Dunfermline
Fife
KY11 8PB
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
CONTENTS
Page
Director's report
1
Independent auditor's report
2 - 4
Profit and loss account
5
Statement of comprehensive income
6
Balance sheet
7
Statement of changes in equity
8
Notes to the financial statements
9 - 13
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
DIRECTOR'S REPORT
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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The directors present their report and financial statements for the period from incorporation on 9 August 2023 to 30 September 2024.

Principal activities

The principal activity of the company is courier services.

Director

The director who held office during the period and up to the date of signature of the financial statements was as follows:

Mr M J Smith
(Appointed 9 August 2023 and resigned 29 January 2025)
Mr P E West
(Appointed 28 January 2025)
Statement of director's responsibilities

The director is responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the director to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the director has elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law, the director must not approve the financial statements unless he is satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the director is required to:

The director is responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Statement of disclosure to auditor

So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.

Small companies exemption

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.

On behalf of the board
Mr P E West
Director
31 October 2025
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Pegasus Couriers Holdings Ltd (the 'company') for the period ended 30 September 2024 which comprise the profit and loss account, the statement of comprehensive income, the balance sheet, the statement of changes in equity and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

 

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

 

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the director with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The director is responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

 

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD (CONTINUED)
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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the director's report. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

 

Responsibilities of director

As explained more fully in the director's responsibilities statement, the director is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the director determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the director is responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the director either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.

Extent to which the audit was capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

We considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and identified the greatest potential for fraud in the following areas: posting of manual journals to manipulate financial performance, significant one-off or unusual transactions, and non-compliance with laws and regulations. We discussed these risks with management, gained an understanding of internal controls established to mitigate risks related to fraud, and performed journal entry testing to address the risk of fraud through management override of controls.

We reviewed areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our sector experience through discussion with the officers and other management (as required by the auditing standards).

We reviewed the laws and regulations in areas that directly affect the financial statements including applicable company law and considered the extent of compliance with those laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items.

With the exception of any known or possible non-compliance with relevant and significant laws and regulations, and as required by the auditing standards, our work in respect of these was limited to enquiry of the officers and management of the company.

We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit.

PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD (CONTINUED)
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Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.

These inherent limitations are particularly significant in the case of misstatement resulting from fraud as this may involve sophisticated schemes designed to avoid detection, including deliberate failure to record transactions, collusion or the provision of intentional misrepresentations..

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Jacqueline Whyte (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Thomson Cooper Accountants
Chartered Accountants
3 Castle Court
Carnegie Campus
Dunfermline
Fife
KY11 8PB
31 October 2025
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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Period
ended
30 September
2024
Notes
£
Turnover
-
Interest receivable and similar income
4
808,288
Profit before taxation
808,288
Tax on profit
5
-
0
Profit for the financial period
808,288

The profit and loss account has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.

PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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Period
ended
30 September
2024
£
Profit for the period
808,288
Other comprehensive income
-
Total comprehensive income for the period
808,288
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
30 September 2024
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2024
Notes
£
£
Fixed assets
Investments
7
1,600,000
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
9
1,600,000

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved and signed by the director and authorised for issue on 31 October 2025
Mr P E West
Director
Company registration number SC778575 (Scotland)
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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Share capital
Profit and loss reserves
Total
Notes
£
£
£
Period ended 30 September 2024:
Profit and total comprehensive income
-
808,288
808,288
Issue of share capital
9
1,600,000
-
1,600,000
Dividends
6
-
(808,288)
(808,288)
Balance at 30 September 2024
1,600,000
-
0
1,600,000
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

Pegasus Couriers Holdings Ltd is a private company limited by shares incorporated in Scotland. The registered office is 69 Pumpherston Road, Uphall Station, Livingston, EH54 5PH.

1.1
Reporting period

These financial statements cover the period from incorporation on 8th August 2023, to 30 September 2024.

1.2
Accounting convention

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

1.3
Going concern

Atruet the time of approving the financial statements, the director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and at least for the next 12 months. Thus the director continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

1.4
Fixed asset investments

Interests in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.

A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

An associate is an entity, being neither a subsidiary nor a joint venture, in which the company holds a long-term interest and where the company has significant influence. The company considers that it has significant influence where it has the power to participate in the financial and operating decisions of the associate.

Entities in which the company has a long term interest and shares control under a contractual arrangement are classified as jointly controlled entities.

1.5
Financial instruments

The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

 

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

 

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Other financial assets

Other financial assets, including investments in equity instruments which are not subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures, are initially measured at fair value, which is normally the transaction price. Such assets are subsequently carried at fair value and the changes in fair value are recognised in profit or loss, except that investments in equity instruments that are not publicly traded and whose fair values cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.

Impairment of financial assets

Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

 

Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

 

If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.

Derecognition of financial assets

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.

Classification of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

 

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

 

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Derecognition of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

1.6
Equity instruments

Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.

2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the director is required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

 

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

There are no key estimates or judgements.

3
Employees

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the period was:

2024
Number
Total
0
4
Interest receivable and similar income
2024
£
Income from fixed asset investments
Income from shares in group undertakings
808,288
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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5
Taxation

The actual charge for the period can be reconciled to the expected charge/(credit) for the period based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:

2024
£
Profit before taxation
808,288
Expected tax charge based on the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK of 24.50%
198,031
Tax effect of income not taxable in determining taxable profit
(198,031)
Taxation charge for the period
-
6
Dividends
2024
£
Interim paid
808,288
7
Fixed asset investments
2024
Notes
£
Investments in subsidiaries
8
1,600,000

Pegasus Couriers Holdings Ltd owns 100% of the issued share capital in Pegasus Couriers Scotland Limited.

Movements in fixed asset investments
Shares in subsidiaries
£
Cost or valuation
At 9 August 2023
-
Additions
1,600,000
At 30 September 2024
1,600,000
Carrying amount
At 30 September 2024
1,600,000
PEGASUS COURIERS HOLDINGS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
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8
Subsidiaries

Details of the company's subsidiaries at 30 September 2024 are as follows:

Name of undertaking
Registered office
Nature of business
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
Pegasus Couriers Scotland Limited
Scotland
Freight services
Ordinary
100.00
9
Share capital
2024
2024
Ordinary share capital
Number
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary shares of £1 each
1,600,000
1,600,000
10
Related party transactions

The company has taken advantage of the exemption available under FRS 102 paragraph 33.1A from disclosing transactions with group entitiestrue. Pegasus Couriers Holdings Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canireca Ltd. Canireca Ltd prepares consolidated financial statements that are publicly available.

11
Ultimate controlling party

The parent company of Pegasus Couriers Holdings Ltd is Canerica Ltd (company number: SC787913). The registered office of the parent company is: 69 Pumpherston Road, Uphall Station, Livingston, Scotland, EH54 5PH.

 

Phillip West (Director) has ultimate control, controlling all group companies.

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