FASCADALE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC176103 · ltd · incorporated 1997-06-04

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 Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 79). 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

8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

8 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

80 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	2	200

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 incorporation
• 1 resolution

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 incorporation
• 1 resolution
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-03-27
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-12-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-16
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capital · SH01
2019-04-15
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2019-03-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-07-24
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JEFFERY, Harry Ernest appointed
secretary
2018-07-24
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officers · AP03
2018-07-24
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2018-06-30
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HARRY JEFFERY & CO LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2017-10-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2017-01-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-09-16
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HOUSTON, Donald Francis Irwin appointed
director
2016-09-16
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HARRY JEFFERY & CO LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2016-09-16
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MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2016-09-16
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MBM BOARD NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2010-02-01
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JEFFERY, Harry Ernest appointed
director
1999-07-14
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HARVEY-JAMIESON, Rodger Ridout resigned
secretary
1999-07-14
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MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
1999-07-08
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ALLAN, Victor Julian Douglas resigned
director
1999-07-08
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MBM BOARD NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
1997-06-04
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Company incorporated
As FASCADALE LIMITED
1997-06-04
➕
HARVEY-JAMIESON, Rodger Ridout appointed
secretary
1997-06-04
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ALLAN, Victor Julian Douglas appointed
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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100

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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
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
Mr Donald Francis Irwin Houston Individual · British · DOB 08/1960 · age 66	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

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

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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

Incorporated1997-06-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Mingary House Kilchoan

Acharacle

Ardnamurchan

Scotland

PH36 4LH

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-12

Last: 2025-05-29

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

JEFFERY, Harry Ernest→

secretary · appointed 2018-07-24

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Active

HOUSTON, Donald Francis Irwin→

director · ~66y · appointed 2016-09-16

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Active

JEFFERY, Harry Ernest→

director · ~79y · appointed 2010-02-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

HARVEY-JAMIESON, Rodger Ridout→

secretary · appointed 1997-06-04 · resigned 1999-07-14

Resigned

HARRY JEFFERY & CO LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2016-09-16 · resigned 2018-06-30

Resigned

MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 1999-07-14 · resigned 2016-09-16

Resigned

ALLAN, Victor Julian Douglas→

director · ~62y · appointed 1997-06-04 · resigned 1999-07-08

Resigned

MBM BOARD NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-director · appointed 1999-07-08 · resigned 2016-09-16

Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

memorandum-articles

incorporation · MA

2026-03-27

resolution

resolution · RESOLUTIONS

2026-03-27