MAXI GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC081671 · ltd · incorporated 1983-02-04

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 42.6y 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: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 42.6y

70/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 42.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

15 officers (8 active, 15 linked, 11 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

13 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

130 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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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
Average employees	1000	900

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2025-11-14
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MILES, Alan John resigned
director
2025-11-14
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-05-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-06-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-11-07
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appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2022-11-07
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-10-27
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ROGERSON, Carrieanne appointed
secretary
2022-10-27
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LOGAN, Catherine resigned
secretary
2022-05-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-10-08
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2021-10-07
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-06-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-06-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-03-20
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-03-19
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ROGERSON, Carrieanne appointed
director
2019-06-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-06-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2017-05-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2015-03-05
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Charge satisfied #2
2015-01-26
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2014-05-01
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AITCHISON, John Clinton appointed
director
2012-11-01
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MILES, Alan John appointed
director
2006-11-01
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ATKINSON, Jacqueline Alexandra appointed
director
2006-10-31
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BATHGATE, James Love resigned
director
2003-02-28
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BELL, Graeme Davie resigned
secretary
2003-02-28
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LOGAN, Catherine appointed
secretary
2003-02-28
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BELL, Graeme Davie resigned
director
2001-04-19
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ATKINSON, Douglas Finlay appointed
director
2001-04-19
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ATKINSON, Richard Elliott appointed
director
1998-04-09
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Charge satisfied #1
1997-06-13
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BELL, Graeme Davie appointed
secretary
1997-06-13
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BELL, Graeme Davie appointed
director
1997-06-12
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DAWSON, David Taylor resigned
secretary
1997-06-12
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DAWSON, David Taylor resigned
director
1992-10-01
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BATHGATE, James Love appointed
director
1989-08-18
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DAWSON, David Taylor appointed
director
1983-09-29
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1983-02-04
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Company incorporated
As MAXI GROUP 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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 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.)

Group structure

Maxi Caledonian Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Maxi Caledonian Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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MAXI GROUP LIMITED

This company · SC081671

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
Maxi Caledonian Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/10/2021

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Gerald Elliott Atkinsonceased 06/10/2021· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1983-02-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Elliott House

Kilwinning Road

Irvine

KA12 8TG

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-06

Last: 2026-02-20