KIRKCUDBRIGHT SCALLOP GEAR LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC053263 · ltd · incorporated 1973-06-06
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.
Why now
Window closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • · Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • · Bankability: 65 → 75
Opportunity decay
hardening · 6-months
Hardening — profile is tightening. If you want to act, do it before the window closes further.
  • · 3 recent signals strengthening vs 0 weakening
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 0 negative.

  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • ↑Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • ↑Bankability: 65 → 75
  • ·Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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not disclosed
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (57/100)

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
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
97 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-01
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    legacy
    miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
  2. 2026-03-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-03-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-02-18
    ➖
    KING, Patricia Jeannie Thom resigned
    secretary
  6. 2025-02-18
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  7. 2024-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-03-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-03-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-11-21
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2019-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-07-19
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  16. 2017-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-08-01
    ➖
    KING, John resigned
    director
  18. 2007-07-09
    ➖
    TUCHEWICZ, Ronald Edmund resigned
    director
  19. 1994-04-30
    ➕
    KING, John Wilson appointed
    director
  20. 1973-06-06
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As KIRKCUDBRIGHT SCALLOP GEAR LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
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 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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 53 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Jane Ann Kuis-King
Individual · British · DOB 04/1961 · age 65
75–100%
—75-100% shares01/01/2017

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
Incorporated1973-06-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

West Coast Sea Products
Dee Walk
Kirkcudbright
DG6 4DQ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-16
Last: 2026-04-02

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

KING, John Wilson→
director · ~65y · appointed 1994-04-30
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Active
KUIS-KING, Jane Ann→
director · ~65y
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Active
KING, Patricia Jeannie Thom→
secretary · resigned 2025-02-18
Resigned
KING, John→
director · ~95y · resigned 2015-08-01
Resigned
TUCHEWICZ, Ronald Edmund→
director · ~74y · resigned 2007-07-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (97 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-06
legacy
miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
2026-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-20
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-02-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-12