MIGDALE GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC105107 · ltd · incorporated 1987-06-11

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03210

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

10 officers (7 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

120 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

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30

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

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2025-08-27
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accounts · AA
2024-10-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-08-05
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certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2024-01-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-12-15
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-12-11
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MURRAY, Alexander, Reverend resigned
director
2021-12-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2021-02-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2019-08-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2018-12-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2018-12-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2018-12-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2017-07-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2016-12-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2006-04-14
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MACKENZIE, Alexander Macdonald appointed
director
2001-12-13
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MURRAY, George Logan appointed
director
1996-10-10
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MURRAY, Hugh Graham appointed
director
1996-10-10
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MURRAY, John appointed
director
1992-04-20
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MURRAY, Jane Lillian appointed
secretary
1992-04-20
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LEDINGHAM CHALMERS resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1992-03-06
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MURRAY, Jane Lillian appointed
director
1992-03-06
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MURRAY, Hugh Graham resigned
director
1987-06-11
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Company incorporated
As MIGDALE 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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — 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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 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

1 med ·

Name changed recently

medium

Name changes can be benign (rebrand) but can also precede distress, phoenix activity, or buyer concealment.

Evidence: 2024-08-05: certificate-change-of-name-company

🔒Co-director network graph

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1987-06-11

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03210 — SIC 03210

Registered office

Dornoch Road

Bonar Bridge

IV24 3EB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-08

Last: 2025-12-25