SHETLAND CLEANING SERVICES (LERWICK) LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC091490 · ltd · incorporated 1985-02-04
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 36.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other cleaning services
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 36.8y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (70/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
101 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
—
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 25 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal 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 (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-06-12📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-06-12📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-04-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-03➖ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair resigneddirector
- 2024-04-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-18📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-11-18📄appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP03
- 2021-11-18📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2021-11-18📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2021-11-18📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2021-11-05➕RABHI, Barbara Ina appointedsecretary
- 2021-11-05➕RABHI, Barbara Ina appointeddirector
- 2021-11-05➕TAIT, Helen Torance Cooper appointeddirector
- 2021-11-05➖ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair resignedsecretary
- 2021-04-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-04-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 1996-01-09🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 1989-07-13🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Tsb Bank Scotland PLC
- 1985-02-04🏢Company incorporatedAs SHETLAND CLEANING SERVICES (LERWICK) LIMITED
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
70/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo 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 Robert Cumming Robertson Individual · British · DOB 01/1954 · age 72 | 50–75% | 50–75% | board controlsig. influence50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest | 30/12/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mrs Anna May Sinclair Robertsonceased 03/03/2025· 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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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1985-02-04
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC81299 — Other cleaning services
Registered office
10 Burgadale
Brae
Shetland
ZE2 9SR
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-15
Last: 2026-04-01
Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)
RABHI, Barbara Ina→
Activesecretary · appointed 2021-11-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RABHI, Barbara Ina→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2021-11-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TAIT, Helen Torance Cooper→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2021-11-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2021-11-05
ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair→
Resigneddirector · ~75y · resigned 2025-03-03
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Tsb Bank Scotland PLC | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 13/07/1989 | 09/01/1996 |
Recent filings (101 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-04-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-24
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-06-12
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-11-18
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2021-11-18
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-11-18