KINERMONY LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC024445 · ltd · incorporated 1946-08-12
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.32M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 1.5y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Newest facility, 1.5 years old — likely still in initial term.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
124 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £1,318,424
Cash YoY
+13%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£586k
↑ 13% YoY
Net Worth
£1.3m
↑ 8.9% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | £585.5k | £519.8k |
| Net assets | £1.32M | £1.21M |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-12📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2024-11-06🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Chivas Brothers Limited
- 2024-09-09📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-09-09📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-11-30📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-11-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-30📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2023-09-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-06📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-11-05📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2019-11-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2008-05-31➖BROWN, Charles Ross resigneddirector
- 2001-12-21➕BROWN, Rinnes Grant appointeddirector
- 2001-02-01➕BROWN, Diane Yvonne appointedsecretary
- 2001-02-01➖BURNETT & REID resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2001-02-01➖SUTHERLAND, John Grant resigneddirector
- 1946-08-12🏢Company incorporatedAs KINERMONY LIMITED
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
96/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 80 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rinnes Grant Brown Individual · British · DOB 07/1971 · age 55 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1946-08-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500
Registered office
C/O Johnston Carmichael Bishop's Court
29 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1YL
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-11
Last: 2025-11-27
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
BROWN, Diane Yvonne→
Activesecretary · appointed 2001-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROWN, Rinnes Grant→
Activedirector · ~55y · appointed 2001-12-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BURNETT & REID→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · resigned 2001-02-01
BROWN, Charles Ross→
Resigneddirector · ~89y · resigned 2008-05-31
SUTHERLAND, John Grant→
Resigneddirector · ~82y · resigned 2001-02-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Chivas Brothers Chivas Brothers Limited | A registered charge | 1 property | 06/11/2024 | — |
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Recent filings (124 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-04
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-11-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-09
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-09-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-21