JAMES CROCKART & SON LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC114775 · ltd · incorporated 1988-11-28
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 19.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£153.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 47640
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 19.8y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 19.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
106 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)Positive net assets
Net assets £153,548
Net assets shrinking
Down £15,391 YoY
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
£154k
↓ 9.1% YoY
Current Assets
£537k
↓ 5.6% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)| Metric | 2025-03-01 | 2024-03-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £153.5k | £168.9k |
| Current assets | £536.8k | £568.5k |
| Net assets | £153.5k | £168.9k |
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
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-01📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2025-06-24➕KIDDY, Andrew Daniel appointeddirector
- 2025-06-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-29📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-05-29📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-04-08📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-04-08📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2024-11-04➖JAMIESON, Sandra Mary Gibson resignedsecretary
- 2024-11-04➖JAMIESON, Sandra Mary Gibson resigneddirector
- 2024-05-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2017-05-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2016-06-17📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2016-05-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2012-10-01➕JAMIESON, Sandra Mary Gibson appointeddirector
- 2006-07-27🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
- 1988-11-28🏢Company incorporatedAs JAMES CROCKART & SON LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
Red flags
cleanNo 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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Robert Paul Jamieson Individual · British · DOB 11/1947 · age 79 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 29/05/2025 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mrs Sandra Mary Gibson Jamiesonceased 29/05/2025· 75-100% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1988-11-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47640 — SIC 47640
Registered office
Dalwirr Farm, Kilry
Glenisla
Blairgowrie
Perthshire
PH11 8HX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-01
Last made up to: 2025-03-01
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-18
Last: 2025-06-04
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
Active
KIDDY, Andrew Daniel→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 2025-06-24
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JAMIESON, Sandra Mary Gibson→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2024-11-04
JAMIESON, Sandra Mary Gibson→
Resigneddirector · ~86y · appointed 2012-10-01 · resigned 2024-11-04
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 27/07/2006 | — |
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Recent filings (106 total)
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-06
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-05-29
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-05-29
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-04-08
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-07-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-08