SCOTCH LAMB MARKETING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC138643 · ltd · incorporated 1992-06-02
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 33.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£3.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01629
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). 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 33.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.6 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 (77/100)

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
89 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,242

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£3k
↑ 120% YoY
Current Assets
£398k
↓ 4.1% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£16k£70k£156k£242k£329k£415kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£83.5k£71.9k
Current assets£397.7k£414.9k
Debtors£226.3k£135.1k
Net assets£3.2k£-16.3k

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.

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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 (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-01-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-05-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-05-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2021-03-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-08-28
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  10. 2020-08-28
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2020-06-01
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    LAWSON, Fiona Jean appointed
    director
  12. 2020-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-05-22
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    capital · SH06
  14. 2019-05-09
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    capital · SH03
  15. 2019-05-01
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    officers · TM02
  16. 2019-05-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2019-03-18
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    PURVES, George Yeoman resigned
    secretary
  18. 2019-03-18
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    PURVES, George Yeoman resigned
    director
  19. 2018-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-06-05
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  21. 2018-06-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  22. 1992-09-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  23. 1992-06-20
    ➕
    LAWSON, Robert Scott appointed
    director
  24. 1992-06-20
    ➕
    PURVES, George Yeoman appointed
    secretary
  25. 1992-06-20
    ➕
    PURVES, George Yeoman appointed
    director
  26. 1992-06-02
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SCOTCH LAMB MARKETING LIMITED
  27. 1992-06-02
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  28. 1992-06-02
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  29. 1992-06-02
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  30. 1992-06-02
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    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 73 — 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 73 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Fiona Jean Lawson
Individual · British · DOB 04/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/06/2020
Mr Robert Scott Lawson
Individual · Scottish · DOB 10/1953 · age 73
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/06/2018
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr George Yeoman Purvesceased 01/06/2018· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated1992-06-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01629 — SIC 01629

Registered office

East Mains Farm
Newbigging Carnwath
Lanark
ML11 8NB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last: 2025-05-17

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

LAWSON, Fiona Jean→
director · ~67y · appointed 2020-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAWSON, Robert Scott→
director · ~73y · appointed 1992-06-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PURVES, George Yeoman→
secretary · appointed 1992-06-20 · resigned 2019-03-18
Resigned
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-06-02 · resigned 1992-06-02
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1992-06-02 · resigned 1992-06-02
Resigned
PURVES, George Yeoman→
director · ~71y · appointed 1992-06-20 · resigned 2019-03-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property18/09/1992—
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Recent filings (89 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-15
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-08-28
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-08-28