SPE ENERGY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC079314 · ltd · incorporated 1982-06-29

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 42.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒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 27120

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

43210Electrical installation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 76). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 42.5y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 42.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

8 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

119 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

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
Average employees	2300	2000

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

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2025-09-25
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accounts · AA
2024-09-23
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accounts · AA
2023-09-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-12-14
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accounts · AA
2021-04-11
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-02-23
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-02-16
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-02-16
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-02-16
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-02-02
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address · AD03
2021-02-02
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address · AD03
2021-02-02
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change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2021-02-02
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change-sail-address-company-with-new-address
address · AD02
2021-02-02
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-02-02
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-12-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-09-20
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accounts · AA
2018-08-24
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SKIPPER, John Craig appointed
director
2015-10-20
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NICHOLAS, Graham resigned
director
2007-07-27
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Charge satisfied #1
2006-05-17
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Charge registered #3
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2006-02-03
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1990-05-07
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SKIPPER, Deborah Jane appointed
secretary
1990-05-07
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WILLIAMSON, John Sandison resigned
secretary
1990-05-07
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WILLIAMSON, John Sandison resigned
director
1983-10-14
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1982-06-29
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Company incorporated
As SPE ENERGY 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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 44 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Deborah Jane Skipper Individual · British · DOB 07/1954 · age 72	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/01/2019

1 historic (ceased) PSC

John Craig Skipperceased 01/01/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

Incorporated1982-06-29

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC27120 — SIC 27120

Registered office

Tayview Grange Of Elcho

Nr Rhynd

Perth

Perh & Kinross

PH2 8QJ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-06

Last: 2026-03-23

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

SKIPPER, Deborah Jane→

secretary · appointed 1990-05-07

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Active

JONES, Jeffrey William→

director · ~76y

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Active

SKIPPER, John Craig→

director · ~70y · appointed 2018-08-24

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Active

WILLIAMSON, John Sandison→

secretary · resigned 1990-05-07

Resigned

NICHOLAS, Graham→

director · ~79y · resigned 2015-10-20

Resigned

WILLIAMSON, John Sandison→

director · ~90y · resigned 1990-05-07

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Legal charge	1 property	17/05/2006	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	03/02/2006	—
satisfied	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	14/10/1983	27/07/2007

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