FAIR CITY PRECAST LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC078774 · ltd · incorporated 1982-05-20
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 11.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
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 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 11.8y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
100 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£42k£85k£127k£170k£212kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets—£30.1k
Current assets—£212.5k
Net assets—£24.8k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-14
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  3. 2023-12-21
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  4. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-17
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-12-14
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  7. 2019-12-05
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  8. 2018-11-26
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  9. 2017-11-06
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2015-12-15
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  12. 2015-11-16
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2014-12-15
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2014-09-03
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-07-28
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2014-07-25
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2011-06-28
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    SAUNDERS, Gordon Scott appointed
    director
  18. 2010-02-16
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    OLIPHANT, David James appointed
    director
  19. 2010-02-16
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    OLIPHANT, Mary Gilmour resigned
    secretary
  20. 2010-02-16
    ➖
    OLIPHANT, David Angus resigned
    director
  21. 1996-04-19
    ➖
    ARMSTRONG, Fiona resigned
    secretary
  22. 1996-04-19
    ➕
    OLIPHANT, Mary Gilmour appointed
    secretary
  23. 1996-04-19
    ➖
    ARMSTRONG, Fiona resigned
    director
  24. 1996-04-19
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    COPLAND, Douglas resigned
    director
  25. 1996-04-19
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    OLIPHANT, David Angus appointed
    director
  26. 1982-05-20
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    Company incorporated
    As FAIR CITY PRECAST LIMITED

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 44 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David James Oliphant
Individual · British · DOB 08/1975 · age 51
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1982-05-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Ladeside
St Catherines Road
Perth
PH1 5RY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-28
Last: 2025-12-14

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

OLIPHANT, David James→
director · ~51y · appointed 2010-02-16
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Active
SAUNDERS, Gordon Scott→
director · ~60y · appointed 2011-06-28
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Active
ARMSTRONG, Fiona→
secretary · resigned 1996-04-19
Resigned
OLIPHANT, Mary Gilmour→
secretary · appointed 1996-04-19 · resigned 2010-02-16
Resigned
ARMSTRONG, Fiona→
director · ~61y · resigned 1996-04-19
Resigned
COPLAND, Douglas→
director · ~90y · resigned 1996-04-19
Resigned
OLIPHANT, David Angus→
director · ~82y · appointed 1996-04-19 · resigned 2010-02-16
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 Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—25/07/2014—
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Recent filings (100 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-12-18