M.A. BLYTH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC027762 · ltd · incorporated 1950-06-09

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£1.45M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

113 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £1,446,144

Net assets shrinking

Down £17,972 YoY

Cash YoY

-19%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£109k

↓ 19% YoY

Net Worth

£1.4m

↓ 1.2% YoY

Current Assets

£320k

↑ 1.8% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£1.52M	£1.53M
Current assets	£319.9k	£314.2k
Cash	£109.0k	£134.5k
Debtors	£35.0k	£18.4k
Net assets	£1.45M	£1.46M

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

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-08-22
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2024-10-17
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accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts · AA
2022-08-23
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accounts · AA
2021-08-03
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accounts · AA
2020-10-23
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accounts · AA
2019-08-12
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accounts · AA
2019-03-25
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officers · TM01
2019-03-18
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2019-03-18
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2019-03-18
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2019-03-15
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capital · SH10
2019-03-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2019-03-11
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BREWSTER, Isobel Anne resigned
director
2018-11-23
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accounts · AA
2017-10-23
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accounts · AA
2001-06-12
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DUFF, Isobel Russell resigned
director
1999-01-18
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DUFF, Janet Margaret appointed
director
1994-01-10
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DUFF, Bryan James appointed
director
1994-01-10
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BREWSTER, Isobel Anne appointed
director
1993-04-30
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DUFF, James Millar resigned
director
1992-01-30
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DUFF, James Millar resigned
secretary
1992-01-20
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DUFF, Bryan James appointed
secretary
1950-06-09
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Company incorporated
As M.A. BLYTH LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100

Critical — business is the founder

The 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 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — 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 candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 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 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 76 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.)

Group structure

Lochfield Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Lochfield Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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M.A. BLYTH LIMITED

This company · SC027762

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
Lochfield Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	11/03/2019

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mrs Isobel Anne Brewsterceased 11/03/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Bryan James Duffceased 11/03/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1950-06-09

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Unit 5 Gateway Business Park

Beancross Road

Grangemouth

Stirlingshire

FK3 8WX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-27

Last: 2026-02-13

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

DUFF, Bryan James→

secretary · appointed 1992-01-20

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Active

DUFF, Bryan James→

director · ~72y · appointed 1994-01-10

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Active

DUFF, Janet Margaret→

director · ~72y · appointed 1999-01-18

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Active

DUFF, James Millar→

secretary · resigned 1992-01-30

Resigned

BREWSTER, Isobel Anne→

director · ~74y · appointed 1994-01-10 · resigned 2019-03-11

Resigned

DUFF, Isobel Russell→

director · ~101y · resigned 2001-06-12

Resigned

DUFF, James Millar→

director · ~102y · resigned 1993-04-30

Resigned

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