MEADOWSIDE BLENDING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC093121 · ltd · incorporated 1985-05-01
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 24.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 11010
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.1y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
118 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees3300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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  2. 2025-06-10
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  3. 2025-06-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2025-06-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  5. 2024-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-02-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2024-01-08
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    mortgage · MR04
  8. 2024-01-08
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    Charge satisfied #3
  9. 2023-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-12-10
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-10-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2022-01-18
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    move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-address
    address · AD03
  13. 2022-01-18
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    change-sail-address-company-with-new-address
    address · AD02
  14. 2021-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-08-24
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-12-19
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  17. 2018-12-05
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  18. 2018-11-28
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  19. 2018-08-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2015-12-22
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    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 2015-11-17
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  22. 2014-07-01
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    HART, Andrew John Greig appointed
    director
  23. 2007-12-10
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    HART, Alistair Robert Greig resigned
    director
  24. 2002-04-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  25. 1999-01-01
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    HART, Laurette Margaret Keenan appointed
    secretary
  26. 1999-01-01
    ➕
    HART, Donald Stuart Greig appointed
    director
  27. 1999-01-01
    ➕
    HART, Alistair Robert Greig appointed
    director
  28. 1998-12-31
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    HART, Anne Paton resigned
    secretary
  29. 1998-12-31
    ➖
    HART, Anne Paton resigned
    director
  30. 1998-12-21
    ➖
    HART, Iain Greg resigned
    director
  31. 1985-05-01
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    Company incorporated
    As MEADOWSIDE BLENDING COMPANY LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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 Andrew John Greig Hart
Individual · British · DOB 11/1977 · age 49
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Donald Stuart Greig Hartceased 06/06/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mrs Laurette Margaret Keenan Hartceased 06/06/2025· 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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1985-05-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC11010 — SIC 11010

Registered office

7th Floor, Capella
60 York Street
Glasgow
G2 8JX
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-27
Last: 2025-12-13

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

HART, Laurette Margaret Keenan→
secretary · appointed 1999-01-01
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Active
HART, Andrew John Greig→
director · ~49y · appointed 2014-07-01
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Active
HART, Donald Stuart Greig→
director · ~80y · appointed 1999-01-01
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Active
HART, Anne Paton→
secretary · resigned 1998-12-31
Resigned
HART, Alistair Robert Greig→
director · ~82y · appointed 1999-01-01 · resigned 2007-12-10
Resigned
HART, Anne Paton→
director · ~83y · resigned 1998-12-31
Resigned
HART, Iain Greg→
director · ~88y · resigned 1998-12-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property28/11/201808/01/2024
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge—17/11/2015—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property22/04/200222/12/2015
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Recent filings (118 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-06-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-06-10
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-06-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-16
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-01-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-10
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-10-27
move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-address
address · AD03
2022-01-18