CRIEFF HIGHLAND GATHERING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC018654 · ltd · incorporated 1935-08-14

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2025

Net worth

£113.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other sports activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -56% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

72 officers (24 active, 72 linked, 68 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

204 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £113,923

Cash draining

Cash down 56% YoY

Cash YoY

-56%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£11k

↓ 56% YoY

Net Worth

£114k

↑ 14% YoY

Current Assets

£14k

↓ 53% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31
Total assets	£113.9k	£99.6k
Current assets	£13.7k	£28.9k
Cash	£11.1k	£25.4k
Debtors	—	£1.5k
Net assets	£113.9k	£99.6k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (115 events)Click to expand

2026-04-02
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2026-03-30
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2026-03-17
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YOUNG, Leslie Morris appointed
secretary
2025-10-28
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officers · TM01
2025-08-17
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COMRIE, James Mcara resigned
director
2025-06-19
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2025-06-19
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2025-06-19
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2025-06-16
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BROCK, Kirsten Anne appointed
director
2025-06-16
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KELSO, Joy Margaret Mary appointed
director
2025-06-16
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RENWICK, Donald Ian appointed
director
2025-04-10
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2025-04-10
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2025-04-03
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2025-03-18
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GRASSICK, Colin Donald resigned
secretary
2025-03-18
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GRASSICK, Colin Donald resigned
director
2025-02-28
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officers · TM01
2025-02-14
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TAYLOR, Graham resigned
director
2024-05-29
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officers · AP01
2024-05-28
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2024-05-24
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PATERSON, Robert John appointed
director
2024-05-02
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2024-03-18
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STEWART, Clare Michelle resigned
director
2023-05-22
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2023-04-20
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2023-04-06
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MACLEAN, Ewan Kirkland resigned
director
2023-02-21
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2023-02-03
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2022-11-14
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GEDDES, David James Irving resigned
director
2022-07-12
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accounts · AA
2022-01-16
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GRAHAM, Hannah appointed
director
2021-07-09
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accounts · AA
2021-05-17
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2021-04-05
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GEDDES, David James Irving resigned
secretary
2021-04-05
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GRASSICK, Colin Donald appointed
secretary
2020-04-30
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CORBETT, Stuart Drummond appointed
director
2020-03-01
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BUTLER, Alan appointed
director
2020-03-01
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ELLIOTT, John Gregor appointed
director
2020-03-01
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TAYLOR, David appointed
director
2020-01-13
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MCDOUGALL, Steven Iain resigned
director
2020-01-13
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RYDER, Alisair resigned
director
2019-08-20
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BILSLAND, John Ian Alexander George resigned
director
2019-04-30
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CRAWFORD, Colin Anthony resigned
director
2019-04-30
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HUNTER, Ronald George resigned
director
2017-04-21
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DEWAR, Iain Maclaren appointed
director
2017-04-21
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SWEENEY, Anthony Colin appointed
director
2017-04-21
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THOMSON, Maureen appointed
director
2017-04-21
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MACDONALD, Fergus James resigned
director
2017-04-21
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SHEPHERD, Richard resigned
director
2017-04-21
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STEWART, Clare Michelle appointed
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-23 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1935-08-14

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

25 West High Street

Crieff

Perthshire

PH7 4AU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-14

Last: 2025-04-30