C.K. CONTRACTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC176322 · ltd · incorporated 1997-06-11
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 20.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c.
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. 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

1 live charge · oldest 20.9y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 20.9 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees78009700

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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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-10
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  2. 2025-10-22
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    KINNEAR, Kris appointed
    director
  3. 2025-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-04
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  6. 2023-07-04
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  7. 2023-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-07-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-10-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-07-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-07-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-07-11
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2016-07-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2015-07-17
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2015-06-02
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    KING, Frances resigned
    secretary
  19. 2015-06-02
    ➖
    KING, Frances resigned
    director
  20. 2005-06-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  21. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    KING, Frances appointed
    director
  22. 2000-02-29
    ➖
    CARRUTHERS, George resigned
    director
  23. 1997-09-09
    ➕
    KING, Andy Moffat appointed
    director
  24. 1997-09-09
    ➕
    KING, Frances appointed
    secretary
  25. 1997-09-09
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 1997-09-09
    ➕
    CARRUTHERS, George appointed
    director
  27. 1997-09-09
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 1997-06-11
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    Company incorporated
    As C.K. CONTRACTS LIMITED
  29. 1997-06-11
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1997-06-11
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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 63 — 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
  • 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 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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

C.K. Contracts (Holdings) 2019 Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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C.K. Contracts (Holdings) 2019 Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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C.K. CONTRACTS LIMITED
This company · SC176322

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
C.K. Contracts (Holdings) 2019 Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control31/10/2022
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • C.K. Contracts (Holdings) Limitedceased 31/10/2022· 75-100% voting

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-06-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC42990 — Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c.

Registered office

Langstilly Farm
Lochwinnoch
Renfrewshire
PA12 4DR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-25
Last: 2025-06-11

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

KING, Andy Moffat→
director · ~63y · appointed 1997-09-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KINNEAR, Kris→
director · ~47y · appointed 2025-10-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KING, Frances→
secretary · appointed 1997-09-09 · resigned 2015-06-02
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-06-11 · resigned 1997-09-09
Resigned
CARRUTHERS, George→
director · ~77y · appointed 1997-09-09 · resigned 2000-02-29
Resigned
KING, Frances→
director · ~60y · appointed 2003-07-31 · resigned 2015-06-02
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-06-11 · resigned 1997-09-09
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property16/06/2005—
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Recent filings (76 total)

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-07-04
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-07-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-15