CRUIVIE AND BRIGHOUSE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC055296 · ltd · incorporated 1974-03-22
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 36.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
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
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 01450SIC 01450
  • 02100SIC 02100
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. 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 36.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.1 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, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 7 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
126 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2024Nov 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-11-302024-11-30
Average employees400400

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
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  2. 2025-12-15
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  3. 2025-05-02
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  4. 2024-12-18
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  10. 2024-12-18
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  11. 2024-12-18
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  12. 2024-03-27
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  13. 2023-06-05
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  14. 2022-08-10
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  15. 2021-05-07
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  16. 2021-04-01
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  17. 2020-03-19
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  18. 2019-08-05
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  19. 2017-10-11
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    PAGAN OSBORNE resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2016-04-01
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    REID, Louise Jane appointed
    director
  21. 2005-12-19
    ➖
    REID, Mary Morison resigned
    director
  22. 2005-12-01
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    CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2005-12-01
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    PAGAN OSBORNE appointed
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2001-06-02
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    REID, Mary Morison appointed
    director
  25. 1994-10-13
    ➕
    REID, Michael John Graeme appointed
    director
  26. 1994-10-13
    ➕
    REID, Rosemary Amanda appointed
    director
  27. 1993-02-25
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    REID, Mary Morison resigned
    director
  28. 1993-01-29
    ➖
    PAGAN, Charles William resigned
    director
  29. 1990-12-31
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    CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  30. 1990-03-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  31. 1974-03-22
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    Company incorporated
    As CRUIVIE AND BRIGHOUSE 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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 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

90/100
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 89 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 52 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Michael John Graeme Reid
Individual · British · DOB 08/1968 · age 58
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Louise Jane Reid
Individual · British · DOB 02/1971 · age 55
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mrs Rosemary Amanda Reidceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares
  • Mr David Alexander Graeme Reidceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares

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

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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
Incorporated1974-03-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

14 City Quay
Dundee
DD1 3JA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-08-28
Last made up to: 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-21
Last: 2025-12-07

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

REID, David Alexander Graeme→
director · ~89y
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Active
REID, Louise Jane→
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-04-01
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Active
REID, Michael John Graeme→
director · ~58y · appointed 1994-10-13
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Active
REID, Rosemary Amanda→
director · ~88y · appointed 1994-10-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1990-12-31 · resigned 2005-12-01
Resigned
PAGAN OSBORNE→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2005-12-01 · resigned 2017-10-11
Resigned
PAGAN, Charles William→
director · ~83y · resigned 1993-01-29
Resigned
REID, Mary Morison→
director · ~118y · appointed 2001-06-02 · resigned 2005-12-19
Resigned
REID, Mary Morison→
director · ~118y · resigned 1993-02-25
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property15/03/1990—
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Recent filings (126 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-12-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-12-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-12-18
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-11