PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY SYSTEMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC080712 · ltd · incorporated 1982-11-03

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 36.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 20420

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.1y

70/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 36.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 23/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

14 officers (6 active, 14 linked, 13 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

17 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

117 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.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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 £3,837,155

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Profit before tax	£3.84M	£3.99M
Average employees	27700	27200

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

filing

• 1 mortgage

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2026-04-29
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mortgage · MR01
2026-04-23
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2025-08-07
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KIRKBRIDE, Laura appointed
director
2025-08-07
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officers · AP01
2025-06-30
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accounts · AA
2025-02-21
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officers · TM01
2025-02-20
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MCPARTLAND, Simon resigned
director
2024-09-27
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AITKEN, Brian resigned
secretary
2024-09-27
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officers · TM02
2024-06-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-07
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MACDONOUGH, Colette Frances appointed
director
2023-12-07
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officers · AP01
2023-12-07
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-09-07
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MACDONOUGH, Colette Frances resigned
director
2023-06-21
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accounts · AA
2022-06-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-10
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officers · TM01
2020-12-09
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AITKEN, Brian resigned
director
2020-06-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-06-28
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accounts · AA
2017-07-11
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accounts · AA
2017-01-04
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MCLAUGHLIN, Stephen appointed
director
2015-06-19
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CUNNIFFE, Sheena Johnston appointed
director
2015-06-19
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MACDONOUGH, Colette Frances appointed
director
2013-02-05
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Charge satisfied #1
2010-06-17
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MCPARTLAND, Simon appointed
director
2007-02-10
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Charge satisfied #2
2003-01-21
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2000-06-21
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BURNS, Margaret Bell resigned
director
2000-06-21
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CONNOLLY, Michael John resigned
director
2000-06-21
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MACDONOUGH, Gordon S resigned
director
1999-10-01
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CONNOLLY, Michael John appointed
director
1993-05-27
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MACDONOUGH, Stephen James appointed
director
1990-12-21
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FRASER, Gilbert William resigned
director
1990-04-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1989-04-04
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FRASER, Gilbert William appointed
director
1982-11-03
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Company incorporated
As PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY SYSTEMS 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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Gerard Patrick Hegarty Individual · British · DOB 10/1940 · age 86	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

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.

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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

Incorporated1982-11-03

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC20420 — SIC 20420

Registered office

3 Newmains Avenue

Inchinnan

Renfrew

PA4 9RR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-21

Last: 2026-02-07