MCADAM DESIGN LIMITED

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NI013516 · ltd · incorporated 1979-04-09

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 36.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£22.01M

year to Dec 2023

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other engineering activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (77/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.8y

60/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 36.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 40/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

21 officers (8 active, 21 linked, 18 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

158 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £3,307,635

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2023-12-31
Turnover	£22.01M
Gross profit	£12.58M
Operating profit	£3.29M
Profit before tax	£3.31M
Average employees	14800

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (58 events)Click to expand

2026-03-31
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-15
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accounts · AA
2025-03-19
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officers · AP01
2025-03-10
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HUGHES, Christopher Martin appointed
director
2024-06-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-29
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-29
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-15
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mortgage · MR04
2023-11-15
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-11-15
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Charge satisfied #3
2023-11-15
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Charge satisfied #2
2023-06-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-28
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-04-24
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CHEATER, Christopher Stuart appointed
director
2022-06-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2020-11-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-11-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-11-06
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mortgage · MR01
2020-11-06
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mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-10-23
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Martin Hare
2020-10-23
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Martin Hare
2020-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-01
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HARDING, Stephen Mark appointed
director
2020-01-01
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KERR, Neal Victor appointed
director
2019-05-22
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FINDLAY, John appointed
director
2019-05-22
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KERR, Fergus appointed
director
2018-06-05
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ANTHONY, Reynold resigned
director
2013-12-31
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CHEATER, Christopher Stuart resigned
director
2013-12-31
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FINDLAY, John resigned
director
2013-12-31
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KERR, Fergus resigned
director
2013-12-31
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MCGUIGAN, Mark Aiden resigned
director
2013-12-31
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MUNRO, Allan George resigned
director
2012-01-01
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KERR, Fergus appointed
secretary
2012-01-01
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CHEATER, Christopher Stuart appointed
director
2012-01-01
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FINDLAY, John appointed
director
2012-01-01
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KERR, Fergus appointed
director
2012-01-01
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MCGUIGAN, Mark Aiden appointed
director
2012-01-01
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MUNRO, Allan George appointed
director
2011-12-31
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OLIVER, Mark Watson resigned
secretary
2011-12-31
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OLIVER, Mark Watson resigned
director
2007-12-31
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BOYD, John Alan resigned
secretary
2007-12-31
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OLIVER, Mark Watson appointed
secretary
2007-12-31
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BOYD, John Alan resigned
director
2002-03-11
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SWINTON, Cecil Thomas resigned
director
2000-01-01
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HARE, Robert Martin appointed
director
2000-01-01
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ANTHONY, Reynold appointed
director
2000-01-01
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RUSSELL, Edward Neill resigned
director
1999-12-31
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MCBRIDE, John resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 58 events

Owner dependency

66/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Mcadam Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mcadam Group Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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MCADAM DESIGN LIMITED

This company · NI013516

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mcadam Group Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	23/10/2020

3 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Mark Watson Oliverceased 23/10/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Robert Martin Hareceased 23/10/2020· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting
Mr Reynold Anthonyceased 22/01/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1979-04-09

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

1c Montgomery House

Castlereagh Business Park

478 Castlereagh Road

Belfast

BT5 6BQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-10

Last: 2026-03-27