PETER CLEMSON & SONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC019061 · ltd · incorporated 1936-04-17
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 92-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 92). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
102 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-29
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  2. 2024-12-16
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  3. 2023-12-27
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  4. 2023-10-01
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  5. 2023-10-01
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  6. 2022-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-15
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  8. 2020-12-13
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  9. 2019-12-20
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  10. 2018-11-26
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  11. 2017-12-28
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  12. 2016-10-04
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  13. 2015-11-29
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  14. 2015-08-21
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  15. 2014-12-15
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  16. 2010-07-30
    TURNER, Alexander resigned
    director
  17. 1994-02-07
    TURNER, Stewart Alexander appointed
    secretary
  18. 1994-02-07
    TURNER, Jessie Dick resigned
    secretary
  19. 1992-03-31
    TURNER, Alan Peter appointed
    director
  20. 1979-03-10
    TURNER, Alexander appointed
    director
  21. 1936-04-17
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    Company incorporated
    As PETER CLEMSON & SONS LIMITED

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
  • -4 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 92 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 92 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 90 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Robert Clemson Turner
Individual · British · DOB 07/1961 · age 65
25–50%25-50% voting31/12/2016
Mr Stewart Alexander Turner
Individual · British · DOB 02/1967 · age 59
2550%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/06/2016
Mr Alan Peter Turner
Individual · Scottish · DOB 02/1967 · age 59
2550%
25–50%sig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence07/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1936-04-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Farm House
Skellyton Farm Lanark Road
Larkhall
Lanarkshire
ML9 2UD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-29
Last: 2025-08-15

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

TURNER, Stewart Alexander
secretary · appointed 1994-02-07
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Active
TURNER, Alan Peter
director · ~59y · appointed 1992-03-31
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Active
TURNER, Jessie Dick
director · ~92y
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Active
TURNER, Robert Clemson
director · ~65y
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Active
TURNER, Stewart Alexander
director · ~59y
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Active
TURNER, Jessie Dick
secretary · resigned 1994-02-07
Resigned
TURNER, Alexander
director · ~93y · appointed 1979-03-10 · resigned 2010-07-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (102 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-10-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-12-20