CARNTYNE TRANSPORT COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC032077 · ltd · incorporated 1957-03-18

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 58.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Freight transport by road

Sector: Transportation & storage

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 89-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 89). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 58.9y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 58.9 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 (83/100)

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

13 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

109 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £5,426,014

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£5.43M	£5.66M
Average employees	342	33300

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

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-01-29
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officers · TM01
2025-12-31
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POULTON, Alan William resigned
director
2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-09-12
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officers · AP01
2025-09-01
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GELL, James William appointed
director
2024-12-04
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accounts · AA
2024-04-24
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-04-24
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-14
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accounts · AA
2022-12-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-09
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accounts · AA
2020-01-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-11-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2017-07-04
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officers · TM01
2017-06-30
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MACLEOD, Kenneth Iain Alexander resigned
director
2017-01-11
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second-filing-of-director-appointment-with-name
document-replacement · RP04AP01
2010-02-01
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PATERSON, David appointed
director
2010-01-11
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POULTON, Alan William appointed
director
2009-12-24
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HARKNESS, Brian Muir resigned
director
1994-01-01
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MACLEOD, Kenneth Iain Alexander appointed
director
1991-10-06
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HARKNESS, Brian Muir resigned
director
1989-05-17
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1967-05-19
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1957-03-18
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Company incorporated
As CARNTYNE TRANSPORT COMPANY 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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 89 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 89 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
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
Mrs Isobel Margaret Russell Individual · British · DOB 03/1939 · age 87	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016
Mr John Graham Russell Individual · British · DOB 01/1937 · age 89	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1957-03-18

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

440 Petershill Road

Springburn

Glasgow

G21 4AA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-20

Last: 2025-10-06