PERTHSHIRE TIMBER COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC142941 · ltd · incorporated 1993-02-26
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 33.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Sawmilling and planing of wood
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 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

3 live charges · oldest 33.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.1 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: high (80/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
84 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees19002000

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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-11
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  2. 2024-09-18
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  3. 2023-08-30
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  4. 2023-01-30
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  5. 2021-12-21
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  6. 2021-01-25
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  7. 2020-10-19
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  8. 2020-10-19
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  9. 2019-12-20
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  10. 2018-12-19
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  11. 2017-12-27
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  12. 2016-12-14
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  13. 2016-02-09
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  14. 2015-12-07
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  15. 2015-12-07
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  16. 2015-10-31
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    GORDON, Caroline Jane appointed
    director
  17. 2015-10-31
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    GORDON, Valerie Milne appointed
    director
  18. 2015-10-31
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    MITCHELL, Anthony James resigned
    director
  19. 2011-03-01
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    GORDON, Iain Graham Murray appointed
    director
  20. 2010-09-10
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    GORDON, William Murray resigned
    director
  21. 1993-07-29
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  22. 1993-05-28
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  23. 1993-03-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  24. 1993-02-26
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    Company incorporated
    As PERTHSHIRE TIMBER COMPANY LIMITED
  25. 1993-02-26
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    GORDON, Valerie Milne appointed
    secretary
  26. 1993-02-26
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1993-02-26
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 1993-02-26
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    GORDON, William Murray appointed
    director
  29. 1993-02-26
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    MITCHELL, Anthony James appointed
    director
  30. 1993-02-26
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  31. 1993-02-26
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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

Mearns Sawmills Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mearns Sawmills Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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PERTHSHIRE TIMBER COMPANY LIMITED
This company · SC142941

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mearns Sawmills Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Valerie Milne Gordon
Individual · British · DOB 04/1942 · age 84
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest06/04/2016

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

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8 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
Incorporated1993-02-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC16100 — Sawmilling and planing of wood

Registered office

Craig House
Stanley
Perthshire
PH1 4NG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-10
Last: 2026-01-27

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

GORDON, Valerie Milne→
secretary · appointed 1993-02-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GORDON, Caroline Jane→
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-10-31
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Active
GORDON, Iain Graham Murray→
director · ~57y · appointed 2011-03-01
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Active
GORDON, Valerie Milne→
director · ~84y · appointed 2015-10-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-02-26 · resigned 1993-02-26
Resigned
GORDON, William Murray→
director · ~89y · appointed 1993-02-26 · resigned 2010-09-10
Resigned
MITCHELL, Anthony James→
director · ~69y · appointed 1993-02-26 · resigned 2015-10-31
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1993-02-26 · resigned 1993-02-26
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property29/07/1993—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property28/05/1993—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security2 properties09/03/1993—
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Recent filings (84 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-10-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-10-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-06