STEWART SHAW HOLDINGS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC080687 · ltd · incorporated 1982-11-02
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
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueConservative operator with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).
Data confidence
Overall: high (82/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
5 active PSC(s) of 7 total, 7 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
112 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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.
See pricing →Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Profitable
Profit before tax £404,123
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Profit before tax | £404.1k | — |
| Average employees | 89 | — |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-11📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2024-07-11📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-03-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-11📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2022-04-11📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2022-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-11📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2021-03-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-29📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2020-12-11📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2020-12-11📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2020-12-10📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2020-12-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-control-without-name-datepersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2020-12-09📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2020-12-09📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2016-04-01➕SHAW, Steven Archibald appointeddirector
- 2006-06-19➕SHAW, Stewart Gillies appointeddirector
- 2006-06-19➖SHAW, Archibald Stewart resigneddirector
- 1982-11-02🏢Company incorporatedAs STEWART SHAW HOLDINGS LIMITED
Owner dependency
98/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "SHAW" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
83/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
Tc Trustees Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.
🏛️significant stake
Tc Trustees Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
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STEWART SHAW HOLDINGS LIMITED
This company · SC080687
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
5 active beneficial owners · fragmented| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mrs Catherine Heather Shaw Individual · British · DOB 09/1951 · age 75 | 50–75% | — | 50-75% shares | 01/04/2021 |
Tc Trustees Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | 25–50% | board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence · trust interest · firm interest | 22/08/2022 |
Mr Stewart Gillies Shaw Individual · British · DOB 09/1969 · age 57 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest | 01/07/2016 |
Mrs Samantha Heather Sharp Individual · British · DOB 07/1976 · age 50 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest | 01/07/2016 |
Mr Steven Archibald Shaw Individual · British · DOB 07/1973 · age 53 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest | 01/07/2016 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Imperium Trust Company Limitedceased 27/10/2022· 50-75% voting · trust interest
- Nrs Catherine Heather Shawceased 30/11/2020· 50-75% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1982-11-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices
Registered office
10 Jane Street
Dunoon
Argyll
PA23 7HX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-06
Last: 2026-02-20
Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)
Active
Active
SHAW, Steven Archibald→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2016-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SHAW, Stewart Gillies→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 2006-06-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SHAW, Archibald Stewart→
Resigneddirector · ~77y · resigned 2006-06-19
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Recent filings (112 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-07-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-28
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-04-11
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-11