SRS TELECOM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC155323 · ltd · incorporated 1995-01-13

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Steady and tidy — no seller pressure yet. Approach only if an angle opens.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 30.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Wired telecommunications activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 30.4y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 30.4 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 (85/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (2 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

88 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Average employees	0	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand

2026-05-20
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accounts · AA
2025-04-09
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accounts · AA
2024-04-26
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accounts · AA
2023-06-20
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accounts · AA
2022-06-28
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accounts · AA
2021-05-14
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accounts · AA
2020-09-08
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accounts · AA
2019-07-30
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officers · AP01
2019-05-03
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accounts · AA
2019-01-10
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address · AD01
2019-01-01
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MCGURK, Gavin James appointed
director
2018-12-21
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CRUICKSHANK, Martin John resigned
secretary
2018-12-21
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CRUICKSHANK, Martin John resigned
director
2018-12-21
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officers · TM02
2018-12-21
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officers · TM01
2018-05-01
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accounts · AA
2017-03-29
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accounts · AA
2016-04-07
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2008-04-29
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Charge satisfied #1
2008-04-15
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2008-03-31
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BRUCE, Stewart resigned
director
1996-07-22
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MACNEIL, Neil Benedict appointed
director
1996-07-22
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CRUICKSHANK, Martin John appointed
director
1996-07-19
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ROBB, Robert Gilmour resigned
director
1996-02-05
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1995-03-22
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CRUICKSHANK, Martin John appointed
secretary
1995-03-22
➖
DM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-03-22
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BRUCE, Roderick Lawrence resigned
nominee-director
1995-03-22
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BRUCE, Stewart appointed
director
1995-03-22
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MINTO, Bruce Watson resigned
nominee-director
1995-03-22
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ROBB, Robert Gilmour appointed
director
1995-01-13
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Company incorporated
As SRS TELECOM LIMITED
1995-01-13
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DM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-01-13
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BRUCE, Roderick Lawrence appointed
nominee-director
1995-01-13
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MINTO, Bruce Watson appointed
nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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

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

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Nuvideo Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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SRS TELECOM LIMITED

This company · SC155323

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Nuvideo Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest	07/01/2017

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1995-01-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC61100 — Wired telecommunications activities

Registered office

Suite 1, Forth House

North Road

Inverkeithing

KY11 1NZ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-13

Last: 2025-12-30

Officers (2 active · 7 resigned)

MACNEIL, Neil Benedict→

director · ~63y · appointed 1996-07-22

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MCGURK, Gavin James→

director · ~56y · appointed 2019-01-01

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Active

CRUICKSHANK, Martin John→

secretary · appointed 1995-03-22 · resigned 2018-12-21

Resigned

DM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-01-13 · resigned 1995-03-22

Resigned

BRUCE, Roderick Lawrence→

nominee-director · ~78y · appointed 1995-01-13 · resigned 1995-03-22

Resigned

BRUCE, Stewart→

director · ~74y · appointed 1995-03-22 · resigned 2008-03-31

Resigned

CRUICKSHANK, Martin John→

director · ~67y · appointed 1996-07-22 · resigned 2018-12-21

Resigned

MINTO, Bruce Watson→

nominee-director · appointed 1995-01-13 · resigned 1995-03-22

Resigned

ROBB, Robert Gilmour→

director · ~75y · appointed 1995-03-22 · resigned 1996-07-19

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	15/04/2008	—
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland	Bond & floating charge	1 property	05/02/1996	29/04/2008

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