TRAQUAIR HOUSE BREWERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC172147 · ltd · incorporated 1997-02-07

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Oct 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of beer

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

78 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Average employees	300	300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

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2003-11-14
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MULLER, Mark Oliver Benjamin appointed
director
2003-11-14
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MAXWELL STUART, Flora Mary resigned
director
1997-05-14
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MAXWELL STUART, Catherine Margaret Mary appointed
secretary
1997-05-14
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MAXWELL STUART, Catherine Margaret Mary appointed
director
1997-05-14
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D.W. COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
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1997-05-14
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COUTTS, Maureen Sheila resigned
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1997-05-14
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MAXWELL STUART, Flora Mary appointed
director
1997-05-14
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POLSON, Michael Buchanan resigned
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1997-02-07
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Company incorporated
As TRAQUAIR HOUSE BREWERY LIMITED
1997-02-07
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D.W. COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
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1997-02-07
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COUTTS, Maureen Sheila appointed
nominee-director
1997-02-07
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POLSON, Michael Buchanan 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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Catherine Margaret Mary Maxwell Stuart Individual · British · DOB 11/1964 · age 62	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016

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

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SCOT CHIP LIMITED→ SC258060 · est 2003	—	—	£1.38M	—	22y	83	61y
THE PREMIUM BAKERY LIMITED→ SC316253 · est 2007	—	—	£420.7k	—	19y	83	69y
CAWOODS (FISHCURERS) LIMITED→ SC034153 · est 1959 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	66y	82	60y
S LUCA OF MUSSELBURGH LIMITED→ SC296882 · est 2006	—	—	£1.65M	—	20y	82	69y
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6 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

Incorporated1997-02-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

Traquair House

Innerleithen

Peeblesshire

EH44 6PW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-21

Last: 2026-02-07

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

MAXWELL STUART, Catherine Margaret Mary→

secretary · appointed 1997-05-14

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Active

MAXWELL STUART, Catherine Margaret Mary→

director · ~62y · appointed 1997-05-14

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Active

MULLER, Mark Oliver Benjamin→

director · ~62y · appointed 2003-11-14

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Active

D.W. COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-02-07 · resigned 1997-05-14

Resigned

COUTTS, Maureen Sheila→

nominee-director · appointed 1997-02-07 · resigned 1997-05-14

Resigned

MAXWELL STUART, Flora Mary→

director · ~92y · appointed 1997-05-14 · resigned 2003-11-14

Resigned

POLSON, Michael Buchanan→

nominee-director · ~62y · appointed 1997-02-07 · resigned 1997-05-14

Resigned

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