HAZELDEN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC137743 · ltd · incorporated 1992-04-10
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 3 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
99 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-12
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  2. 2024-12-19
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  3. 2023-12-21
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  4. 2023-06-29
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  5. 2022-12-22
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  6. 2021-12-21
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  7. 2021-03-04
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  8. 2019-12-18
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  9. 2018-12-18
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  10. 2017-12-20
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  11. 2017-01-04
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  12. 2016-05-02
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  13. 2016-03-24
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  14. 2016-01-08
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  15. 2015-05-05
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2005-03-07
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    MCGEOCH, Anne Louise appointed
    secretary
  17. 2005-03-07
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    MCGEOCH, Neil James appointed
    director
  18. 2005-03-07
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    MCKIMMIE, Matthew Richard resigned
    secretary
  19. 2005-03-07
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    LAWRIE, James Andrew resigned
    director
  20. 1992-04-30
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    MCGEOCH, Iain William appointed
    director
  21. 1992-04-30
    ➕
    MCKIMMIE, Matthew Richard appointed
    secretary
  22. 1992-04-30
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    MD SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1992-04-30
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    LAWRIE, James Andrew appointed
    director
  24. 1992-04-30
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    MD DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 1992-04-10
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    Company incorporated
    As HAZELDEN LIMITED
  26. 1992-04-10
    ➕
    MD SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1992-04-10
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    MD DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Anne Louise Mcgeoch
Individual · British · DOB 09/1947 · age 79
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1992-04-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Lochlea Farm
Craigie
Kilmarnock
KA1 5NN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-24
Last: 2026-04-10

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

MCGEOCH, Anne Louise→
secretary · appointed 2005-03-07
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Active
MCGEOCH, Iain William→
director · ~81y · appointed 1992-04-30
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Active
MCGEOCH, Neil James→
director · ~49y · appointed 2005-03-07
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Active
MCKIMMIE, Matthew Richard→
secretary · appointed 1992-04-30 · resigned 2005-03-07
Resigned
MD SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-04-10 · resigned 1992-04-30
Resigned
LAWRIE, James Andrew→
director · ~81y · appointed 1992-04-30 · resigned 2005-03-07
Resigned
MD DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1992-04-10 · resigned 1992-04-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (99 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-12-18