THE JFK PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC178555 · ltd · incorporated 1997-09-04

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 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46170

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

72 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

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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	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
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

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-05-06
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2024-05-15
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2023-07-26
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2022-06-16
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2021-09-10
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2020-11-18
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2019-07-03
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2018-08-02
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2018-07-09
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officers · TM01
2018-07-01
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KERR, Michael John Francis resigned
director
2017-04-04
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accounts · AA
2016-06-07
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2015-09-14
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2015-09-07
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2015-08-03
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KERR, Eileen Teresa appointed
director
2015-08-03
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1997-10-02
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KERR, John Francis appointed
secretary
1997-10-02
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KERR, John Francis appointed
director
1997-10-02
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MACROBERTS (SOLICITORS) resigned
corporate-secretary
1997-10-02
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KERR, Michael John Francis appointed
director
1997-10-02
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MACROBERTS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
1997-09-04
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Company incorporated
As THE JFK PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
1997-09-04
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MACROBERTS (SOLICITORS) appointed
corporate-secretary
1997-09-04
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MACROBERTS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-director

Owner dependency

91/100

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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John Francis Kerr Individual · British · DOB 11/1939 · age 87	50–75%	—	50-75% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Michael John Kerr Individual · British · DOB 03/1970 · age 56	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1997-09-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC46170 — SIC 46170

Registered office

2 Newton Place

Elgin

Morayshire

IV30 6AZ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-18

Last: 2025-09-04

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

KERR, John Francis→

secretary · appointed 1997-10-02

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Active

KERR, Eileen Teresa→

director · ~87y · appointed 2015-08-03

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Active

KERR, John Francis→

director · ~87y · appointed 1997-10-02

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Active

MACROBERTS (SOLICITORS)→

corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-09-04 · resigned 1997-10-02

Resigned

KERR, Michael John Francis→

director · ~56y · appointed 1997-10-02 · resigned 2018-07-01

Resigned

MACROBERTS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-director · appointed 1997-09-04 · resigned 1997-10-02

Resigned

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