WILD FOODS OF SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC130288 · ltd · incorporated 1991-02-28
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10200
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
89 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Average employees121200

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-08-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-08-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-12
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  8. 2020-08-30
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    HASTIE, Ross William resigned
    director
  9. 2020-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-05-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-03-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2019-03-05
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    HASTIE, Joe Fergus resigned
    director
  13. 2018-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-06-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-03-24
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2015-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2011-06-10
    ➕
    MARR, Thomas appointed
    secretary
  19. 2011-06-10
    ➕
    HASTIE, Ronald Alan appointed
    director
  20. 2011-06-10
    ➖
    HASTIE, Ronald Mcdonald resigned
    secretary
  21. 2011-06-10
    ➕
    HASTIE, Joe Fergus appointed
    director
  22. 2011-06-10
    ➕
    HASTIE, Ross William appointed
    director
  23. 1991-02-28
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As WILD FOODS OF SCOTLAND LIMITED
  24. 1991-02-28
    ➕
    HASTIE, Angela appointed
    director
  25. 1991-02-28
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 1991-02-28
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1991-02-28
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 1991-02-28
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 1988-02-13
    ➕
    HASTIE, Ronald Mcdonald appointed
    director
  30. 1988-02-13
    ➕
    HASTIE, Ronald Mcdonald appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 38 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 38 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Ronald Mcdonald Hastie
Individual · British · DOB 10/1957 · age 69
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1991-02-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10200 — SIC 10200

Registered office

Creeside Industrial Estate
Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire
DG8 6JY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-14
Last: 2026-02-28

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

MARR, Thomas→
secretary · appointed 2011-06-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HASTIE, Angela→
director · ~65y · appointed 1991-02-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HASTIE, Ronald Alan→
director · ~45y · appointed 2011-06-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HASTIE, Ronald Mcdonald→
director · ~69y · appointed 1988-02-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HASTIE, Ronald Mcdonald→
secretary · appointed 1988-02-13 · resigned 2011-06-10
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1991-02-28 · resigned 1991-02-28
Resigned
HASTIE, Joe Fergus→
director · ~41y · appointed 2011-06-10 · resigned 2019-03-05
Resigned
HASTIE, Ross William→
director · ~43y · appointed 2011-06-10 · resigned 2020-08-30
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1991-02-28 · resigned 1991-02-28
Resigned

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Recent filings (89 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-10