RED ROOSTER LIFTING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC113779 · ltd · incorporated 1988-10-04

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 37.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

28220SIC 28220

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 37.1y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 37.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

17 officers (7 active, 17 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

214 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	4400	4400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (51 events)Click to expand

2026-04-01
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CHRISTIE, Lesley appointed
director
2026-04-01
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-09-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-12-04
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-12-04
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withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2024-10-09
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TAKAGI, Ken appointed
director
2024-10-09
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-10-09
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-10-07
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NAUTA, Gert Jan appointed
director
2024-09-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-20
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-06-18
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capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2024-06-13
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2024-05-21
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-05-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-05-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-05-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-09-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
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GIBB, Margaret Elizabeth resigned
director
2023-03-31
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officers · TM01
2022-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-05
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2022-08-05
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capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2022-04-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-04-01
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SHEWAN, Paul James appointed
director
2020-03-31
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WRIGHT, Stephen Arthur resigned
director
2018-03-01
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FRASER, Lena appointed
director
2017-08-09
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PRZYGODA, Sebastian Kamil resigned
director
2016-03-07
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ADDLESHAW GODDARD (SCOTLAND) SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2016-03-07
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STRONACHS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2015-01-20
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GIBB, Margaret Elizabeth resigned
secretary
2015-01-20
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STRONACHS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2014-08-02
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EVANS, John Stephen resigned
director
2012-09-01
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PRZYGODA, Sebastian Kamil appointed
director
2010-04-01
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GIBB, Margaret Elizabeth appointed
secretary
2010-03-31
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WRIGHT, Stephen resigned
secretary
2005-11-15
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Charge registered #4
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2005-11-11
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HODGSON, Malcolm Alexander resigned
secretary
2005-11-11
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WRIGHT, Stephen appointed
secretary
2005-11-11
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HODGSON, Malcolm Alexander resigned
director
2005-11-11
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ROWLAND, Bryan William resigned
director
2001-11-12
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EVANS, John Stephen appointed
director
2000-08-11
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GIBB, Margaret Elizabeth appointed
director
1997-04-01
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AITKEN, William appointed
director
1992-06-23
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Charge registered #3
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1991-01-04
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Charge satisfied #1
1990-07-13
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1989-12-11
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ROWLAND, Bryan William appointed
director
1989-03-22
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland

Showing most recent 50 of 51 events

Owner dependency

65/100

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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Nynke Reka Nauta Individual · Dutch · DOB 03/1978 · age 48	50–75%	25–50%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	14/06/2024

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Sjoerd Theo Nautaceased 13/08/2018· 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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1988-10-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC25110 — Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Registered office

Nauta House, The Meadows

Oldmeldrum

Aberdeenshire

AB51 0EZ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-16

Last: 2025-12-02