MARIXIN (INVERNESS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC098274 · ltd · incorporated 1986-04-07
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 39.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
—
Upgrade to see
Turnover
—
year to Nov 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
🔔
Follow this company (free)
Email alerts on filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices. No account needed.

Unsubscribe any time from any email. GDPR-respectful.

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch
What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 56101Licenced restaurants
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

🏦

Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 39.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 39.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
99 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

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
—
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£54k£108k£162k£216k£270kNov 2023Nov 2024

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Cash—£134.5k
Net assets—£270.1k
Average employees1900—

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-13
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-04
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2024-05-30
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-08-08
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-06-17
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2022-05-04
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-04-14
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2022-03-31
    ➕
    THOMSON, Kirsty appointed
    director
  9. 2021-08-09
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-05-26
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2020-05-26
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2020-05-26
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2020-04-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-11-08
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2019-11-08
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2019-11-08
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2019-05-21
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-04-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2014-12-06
    ➖
    SMITH, Charles Ellis resigned
    director
  20. 1996-10-23
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 1987-03-12
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  22. 1986-04-07
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As MARIXIN (INVERNESS) 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
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 40 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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
Christina Clark Galloway Smith
Individual · British · DOB 09/1941 · age 85
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Similar companies

Active · Food & drink · IV postcode area
CompanyEst. valueTurnoverNet worthStaffAgeOppDirector
CULLODEN FOODS LIMITED→
SC063411 · est 1977
£720.8k
£531.1k–£910.5k
——21548y8581y
C J MIDDLETON LIMITED→
SC212646 · est 2000
——£558.0k—25y8266y
CLAYMORE DAIRIES LIMITED→
SC371390 · est 2010 · no financials extracted
————16y8260y
EKOBAY LIMITED→
SC128521 · est 1990
———20035y8273y
FIONNAR SPRINGS LTD.→
SC230770 · est 2002
——£235.7k—24y8292y
SINCLAIR BREWERIES LIMITED→
SC302746 · est 2006
———2119y8265y
ATLAS BREWERY LIMITED→
SC303326 · est 2006
————19y8065y
KELTIC SEAFARE (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
SC141396 · est 1992
——£1.15M—33y8084y
SPEYMALT WHISKY DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED→
SC037522 · est 1962 · no financials extracted
————64y8065y
ANGELIC FREE FROM LTD→
SC400402 · est 2011
——£14.7k—14y7961y
HIGHLANDER ROASTERY LTD→
SC663005 · est 2020 · no financials extracted
————5y——
SGURR UARAN LTD→
SC682633 · est 2020 · no financials extracted
————5y——
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →
🔒Advanced scoring suite

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1986-04-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10710 — Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Registered office

The Tower
103 High Street
Elgin
IV30 1EB
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-30
Last: 2025-05-16

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

THOMSON, Evelyn Galloway→
secretary
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Christina Clark Galloway→
director · ~85y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
THOMSON, Evelyn Galloway→
director · ~64y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
THOMSON, Kirsty→
director · ~31y · appointed 2022-03-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Charles Ellis→
director · ~86y · resigned 2014-12-06
Resigned

Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.

Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property12/03/198723/10/1996

Recent filings (99 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-05-26