EXCEL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC092842 · ltd · incorporated 1985-04-16
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.
Why now
Window closing · medium confidence
Getting harder to buy cheaply — 1 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.
  • · Hygiene score: 85 → 90
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

  • ↑Hygiene score: 85 → 90
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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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 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
107 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees300300300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-25
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  2. 2025-06-26
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    officers · TM01
  3. 2025-06-24
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-06-16
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    PALMER, Colin Mckenzie resigned
    director
  5. 2025-03-26
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    second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  6. 2024-10-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2024-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-06-23
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  9. 2022-06-23
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  10. 2022-03-22
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2021-06-26
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  12. 2020-06-17
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  13. 2019-06-25
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  14. 2019-06-13
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    accounts · AAMD
  15. 2019-04-02
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    officers · CH01
  16. 2019-04-02
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2018-07-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-11-09
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    GRIMSLEY, Scott Alfred resigned
    director
  19. 2017-11-09
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    MELVIN, Scott resigned
    director
  20. 2015-07-01
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    PALMER, Colin Mckenzie appointed
    director
  21. 2013-03-01
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    FORREST, Naideen appointed
    director
  22. 2013-03-01
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    GRIMSLEY, Scott Alfred appointed
    director
  23. 2013-03-01
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    MELVIN, Scott appointed
    director
  24. 1985-04-16
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    Company incorporated
    As EXCEL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS LTD

Owner dependency

81/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 13 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Kenneth Robert Forrest
Individual · British · DOB 03/1960 · age 66
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1985-04-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Torridon House, Torridon Lane
Rosyth
Dunfermline
Fife
KY11 2EU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-04
Last: 2026-03-21

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

FORREST, Naideen→
secretary
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Active
FORREST, Kenneth Robert→
director · ~66y
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Active
FORREST, Naideen→
director · ~65y · appointed 2013-03-01
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Active
GRIMSLEY, Scott Alfred→
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-03-01 · resigned 2017-11-09
Resigned
MELVIN, Scott→
director · ~57y · appointed 2013-03-01 · resigned 2017-11-09
Resigned
PALMER, Colin Mckenzie→
director · ~75y · appointed 2015-07-01 · resigned 2025-06-16
Resigned

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Recent filings (107 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-25
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-06-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-24
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2025-03-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-26