KEELA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC116720 · ltd · incorporated 1989-03-09
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 36.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of clothing and footwear
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.3y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
97 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees28002500

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-27
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  2. 2024-11-01
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  3. 2024-07-11
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  4. 2024-07-11
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  5. 2023-11-10
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  6. 2022-12-22
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  7. 2022-06-01
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  8. 2022-05-06
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    BARR, Robert Douglas resigned
    secretary
  9. 2022-02-24
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  10. 2020-12-09
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  11. 2019-11-22
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  12. 2019-03-01
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  13. 2018-03-26
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  14. 2017-03-27
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  15. 2016-04-06
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  16. 2015-08-12
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  17. 2008-01-01
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    FERNANDO, Samantha Clare appointed
    director
  18. 2008-01-01
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    KIDD, Arlene Helen Hunter appointed
    director
  19. 2003-11-28
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    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane resigned
    secretary
  20. 2003-11-28
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    BARR, Robert Douglas appointed
    secretary
  21. 2003-11-28
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    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane resigned
    director
  22. 2001-07-19
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    Charge satisfied #1
  23. 2001-05-29
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  24. 1999-08-01
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    FERNANDO, Shantha Ruwan appointed
    director
  25. 1996-01-29
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    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas resigned
    director
  26. 1990-01-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  27. 1989-03-09
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    Company incorporated
    As KEELA INTERNATIONAL 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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — 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 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 37 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.)

Group structure

Ardmel Group Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Ardmel Group Ltd
Corporate parent
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KEELA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
This company · SC116720

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ardmel Group Ltd
Corporate entity
——sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest · firm interest01/07/2024
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Semage Rupasiri Fernandoceased 30/06/2024· 75-100% shares

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1989-03-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46420 — Wholesale of clothing and footwear

Registered office

S 52-53 Nasmyth Road
Southfield Industrial Estate
Glenrothes
Fife
KY6 2SD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-30
Last: 2025-07-16

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

FERNANDO, Samantha Clare→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FERNANDO, Semage Rupasiri→
director · ~83y
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Active
FERNANDO, Shantha Ruwan→
director · ~57y · appointed 1999-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KIDD, Arlene Helen Hunter→
director · ~58y · appointed 2008-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane→
secretary · resigned 2003-11-28
Resigned
BARR, Robert Douglas→
secretary · appointed 2003-11-28 · resigned 2022-05-06
Resigned
ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane→
director · ~90y · resigned 2003-11-28
Resigned
ANDERSON, Robert Thomas→
director · ~86y · resigned 1996-01-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property29/05/2001—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property09/01/199019/07/2001
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Recent filings (97 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-11-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-07-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-02
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-07