T. & C. YOUNG LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC030223 · ltd · incorporated 1954-07-31

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 39.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 39.7y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 39.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

94 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Average employees	2	200

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

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-02-23
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2025-04-01
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2024-04-12
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2023-01-12
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2021-10-18
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2021-03-26
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2019-10-30
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2019-03-25
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2018-03-14
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2017-03-20
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2016-03-14
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2016-02-23
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2015-05-01
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2015-03-16
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2014-04-16
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officers · AP01
2014-04-06
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COMB, Bryan Angus appointed
director
2007-03-01
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COMB, Carol Mary appointed
secretary
2007-03-01
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COMB, David Anderson resigned
secretary
2006-08-06
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YOUNG, Charles resigned
director
2002-03-21
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COMB, David Anderson appointed
secretary
2002-03-21
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YOUNG, Margaret Brown Dickie resigned
secretary
1992-08-07
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YOUNG, Angus Thomas resigned
director
1992-06-22
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COMB, David Anderson appointed
director
1986-08-04
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1954-07-31
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Company incorporated
As T. & C. YOUNG 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 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — 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 77 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 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 72 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Bryan Angus Comb Individual · Scottish · DOB 11/1983 · age 43	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
David Comb Individual · British · DOB 04/1949 · age 77	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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1954-07-31

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Shielhill

Tealing

Dundee

Angus

DD4 0QN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-24

Last: 2026-03-10

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

COMB, Carol Mary→

secretary · appointed 2007-03-01

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Active

COMB, Bryan Angus→

director · ~43y · appointed 2014-04-06

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Active

COMB, David Anderson→

director · ~77y · appointed 1992-06-22

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Active

COMB, David Anderson→

secretary · appointed 2002-03-21 · resigned 2007-03-01

Resigned

YOUNG, Margaret Brown Dickie→

secretary · resigned 2002-03-21

Resigned

YOUNG, Angus Thomas→

director · ~73y · resigned 1992-08-07

Resigned

YOUNG, Charles→

director · ~108y · resigned 2006-08-06

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	04/08/1986	—

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Recent filings (94 total)

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2026-03-12

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2026-02-23

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2025-04-01

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-03-10

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2024-04-12

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2024-03-11

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2023-03-21

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2023-01-12

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2022-03-14

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2021-10-18

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2021-05-11

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2021-03-26

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2020-03-17

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2019-10-30

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2019-03-25