D. GEDDES (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED

📈Growthactive

SC060200 · ltd · incorporated 1976-06-16

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 44.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 08990

Sector: Mining & quarrying

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 90). 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 44.1y

75/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 44.1 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.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

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

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

104 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £4,983,993

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	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	£4.98M	£3.46M
Average employees	11900	13400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2026-01-15
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THORNTONS LAW LLP resigned
corporate-secretary
2026-01-15
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officers · TM02
2025-09-29
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accounts · AA
2024-09-27
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accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts · AA
2022-09-29
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2021-10-05
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2020-10-01
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2019-10-02
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2018-10-04
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2017-09-30
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2016-10-03
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accounts · AA
2016-01-27
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document-replacement · RP04
2016-01-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2016-01-13
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annual-return · AR01
2015-10-05
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accounts · AA
2004-12-01
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THORNTONS LAW LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2004-11-30
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THORNTONS WS resigned
corporate-secretary
1989-04-21
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1988-12-07
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THORNTONS WS appointed
corporate-secretary
1982-04-23
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1976-06-16
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Company incorporated
As D. GEDDES (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED

Owner dependency

78/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "GEDDES" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 90 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 50 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

D. Geddes (Farms) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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D. Geddes (Farms) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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D. GEDDES (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED

This company · SC060200

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
D. Geddes (Farms) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

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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

Incorporated1976-06-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC08990 — SIC 08990

Registered office

Swirlburn

Colliston

By Arbroath

Angus,

DD11 3SH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-01

Last: 2025-12-18

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

GEDDES, Frank→

director · ~90y

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Active

GEDDES, Graham William Raitt→

director · ~80y

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Active

GEDDES, Neil Birnie→

director · ~78y

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Active

SMYTH, Derek Leighton→

director · ~82y

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Active

SMYTH, Dorothy Janet→

director · ~82y

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Active

THORNTONS LAW LLP→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-12-01 · resigned 2026-01-15

Resigned

THORNTONS WS→

corporate-secretary · appointed 1988-12-07 · resigned 2004-11-30

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Standard security	1 property	21/04/1989	—
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	23/04/1982	—

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Recent filings (104 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-22

termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM02

2026-01-15