MACSCOTT BOND LIMITED

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SC054745 · ltd · incorporated 1973-12-17
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 Apr 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28120
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 28220SIC 28220
  • 77390Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Company profile
address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
22 officers (6 active, 22 linked, 18 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
141 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees121100

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 address
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (52 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-01-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2025-02-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  4. 2025-02-23
    VENMAN, Marion Shepherd resigned
    director
  5. 2025-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-05-07
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  7. 2024-05-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2024-05-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2024-05-01
    DAVIDSON, Gary Alan appointed
    director
  10. 2024-05-01
    WADDELL, Andrew Alan Wallace appointed
    director
  11. 2024-05-01
    VENMAN, Marion Shepherd appointed
    director
  12. 2024-02-29
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2024-01-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2023-12-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  15. 2023-11-24
    WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace resigned
    director
  16. 2023-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2022-01-06
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2021-12-31
    SHANKS, Brian resigned
    director
  19. 2021-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2021-01-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  21. 2019-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  22. 2019-12-19
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  23. 2018-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  24. 2018-03-30
    GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. resigned
    director
  25. 2017-11-24
    SHANKS, Brian appointed
    director
  26. 2017-11-13
    PLOWMAN, Alistair John resigned
    director
  27. 2017-03-31
    MILROY, William Louis appointed
    director
  28. 2015-12-18
    MERRITT, George Moore resigned
    director
  29. 2010-11-01
    WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace appointed
    director
  30. 2009-12-18
    DEREHAM, Orme Giles resigned
    director
  31. 2009-12-18
    PRENTER, Patrick Robert resigned
    director
  32. 2009-12-18
    THOMSON, Balfour resigned
    director
  33. 2008-01-24
    MARSH, William Paul appointed
    director
  34. 2008-01-24
    MERRITT, George Moore appointed
    director
  35. 2008-01-24
    PLOWMAN, Alistair John appointed
    director
  36. 2001-01-01
    PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
    secretary
  37. 2001-01-01
    MORTON FRASER resigned
    corporate-secretary
  38. 2001-01-01
    BIRD, Robert resigned
    director
  39. 2001-01-01
    CAMPION, Gordon Pearson resigned
    director
  40. 2001-01-01
    CRAIG, Thomas Moodie resigned
    director
  41. 2001-01-01
    MARSH, William Paul resigned
    director
  42. 2001-01-01
    THOMSON, Balfour appointed
    director
  43. 1998-03-27
    DEREHAM, Orme Giles appointed
    director
  44. 1997-03-27
    MARSH, William Paul appointed
    director
  45. 1995-09-29
    CAMPION, Gordon Pearson appointed
    director
  46. 1992-11-20
    LUCAS, Kathleen Margaret Ann resigned
    secretary
  47. 1992-11-20
    MORTON FRASER appointed
    corporate-secretary
  48. 1991-03-22
    PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
    director
  49. 1990-07-27
    GILCHRIST, Andrew Kirkwood Rae resigned
    director
  50. 1990-07-27
    GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. appointed
    director
Showing most recent 50 of 52 events

Owner dependency

65/100
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 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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

Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
MACSCOTT BOND LIMITED
This company · SC054745

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75-100% shares06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1973-12-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC28120 — SIC 28120

Registered office

9 Haymarket Square Mactaggart Scott And Co Ltd
C/O Morton Fraser Mac Roberts Ws
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH3 8RY
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-06
Last: 2025-11-22

Officers (6 active · 16 resigned)

PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott
secretary · appointed 2001-01-01
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Active
DAVIDSON, Gary Alan
director · ~53y · appointed 2024-05-01
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Active
MARSH, William Paul
director · ~64y · appointed 2008-01-24
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Active
MILROY, William Louis
director · ~70y · appointed 2017-03-31
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Active
PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott
director · ~63y · appointed 1991-03-22
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Active
WADDELL, Andrew Alan Wallace
director · ~57y · appointed 2024-05-01
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Active
LUCAS, Kathleen Margaret Ann
secretary · resigned 1992-11-20
Resigned
MORTON FRASER
corporate-secretary · appointed 1992-11-20 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
BIRD, Robert
director · ~91y · appointed 1989-03-24 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
CAMPION, Gordon Pearson
director · ~75y · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
CRAIG, Thomas Moodie
director · ~87y · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
DEREHAM, Orme Giles
director · ~88y · appointed 1998-03-27 · resigned 2009-12-18
Resigned
GILCHRIST, Andrew Kirkwood Rae
director · resigned 1990-07-27
Resigned
GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr.
director · ~83y · appointed 1990-07-27 · resigned 2018-03-30
Resigned
MARSH, William Paul
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-03-27 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
MERRITT, George Moore
director · ~74y · appointed 2008-01-24 · resigned 2015-12-18
Resigned
PLOWMAN, Alistair John
director · ~66y · appointed 2008-01-24 · resigned 2017-11-13
Resigned
PRENTER, Patrick Robert
director · ~87y · resigned 2009-12-18
Resigned
SHANKS, Brian
director · ~67y · appointed 2017-11-24 · resigned 2021-12-31
Resigned
THOMSON, Balfour
director · ~84y · appointed 2001-01-01 · resigned 2009-12-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (141 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-01-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-26
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-07
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-02
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-05
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-01-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-02