SCRABSTER SEAFOODS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC164816 · ltd · incorporated 1996-04-11
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 27.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 27.2y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 27.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
93 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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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees200800

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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
4
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 capital
  • • 1 incorporation
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 capital
  • • 1 incorporation
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-26
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  2. 2026-03-25
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  3. 2026-03-24
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  4. 2026-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-01-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-04-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-01-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-04-12
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  9. 2023-04-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2023-04-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2023-04-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2023-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2022-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-11-29
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  15. 2021-11-29
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  16. 2021-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-02-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-10-04
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  19. 2019-10-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  20. 2019-06-27
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  21. 2011-01-20
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    Charge satisfied #2
  22. 2010-04-01
    ➕
    CALDER, William Gilchrist appointed
    director
  23. 2000-04-30
    ➕
    CALDER, Fiona Sinclair Guthrie appointed
    secretary
  24. 2000-04-30
    ➖
    HBJ SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 1999-12-21
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  26. 1999-03-12
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  27. 1996-04-29
    ➕
    CALDER, Fiona Sinclair Guthrie appointed
    director
  28. 1996-04-29
    ➕
    CALDER, William appointed
    director
  29. 1996-04-29
    ➖
    HENDERSON BOYD JACKSON LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  30. 1996-04-11
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SCRABSTER SEAFOODS LIMITED
  31. 1996-04-11
    ➕
    HBJ SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  32. 1996-04-11
    ➕
    HENDERSON BOYD JACKSON LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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
Mr William Calder
Individual · British · DOB 08/1951 · age 75
25–50%
—25-50% shares12/04/2016
Mr William Gilchrist Calder
Individual · Scottish · DOB 01/1979 · age 47
25–50%
—25-50% shares12/04/2016

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

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7 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
Incorporated1996-04-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46380 — Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs

Registered office

Seafood Park
Scrabster
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 7UJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-25
Last: 2026-04-11

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

CALDER, Fiona Sinclair Guthrie→
secretary · appointed 2000-04-30
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Active
CALDER, Fiona Sinclair Guthrie→
director · ~74y · appointed 1996-04-29
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Active
CALDER, William Gilchrist→
director · ~47y · appointed 2010-04-01
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Active
CALDER, William→
director · ~75y · appointed 1996-04-29
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Active
HBJ SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1996-04-11 · resigned 2000-04-30
Resigned
HENDERSON BOYD JACKSON LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 1996-04-11 · resigned 1996-04-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—27/06/2019—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Ship mortgage1 property21/12/199920/01/2011
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Floating charge1 property12/03/199904/10/2019
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Recent filings (93 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-24
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2026-03-26
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-03-25
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-15
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-12
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-04-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-12