KEPSTORN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC179182 · ltd · incorporated 1997-09-29
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 3.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. 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).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 3.8y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Charge age ~3.8 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
65 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31

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
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Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-05-31
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  3. 2022-11-22
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  4. 2022-11-17
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-19
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  6. 2022-07-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Kepstorn Solicitors Limited
  7. 2021-11-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-01-14
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-11-28
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-06-04
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-06-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-05-12
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    capital · SH01
  13. 2017-05-09
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    capital · SH08
  14. 2017-05-09
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  15. 2016-10-10
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-10-02
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    annual-return · AR01
  17. 1999-08-06
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    JONES, Calum Symon appointed
    secretary
  18. 1999-08-06
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    KIDSTONS & CO SOLICITORS resigned
    corporate-secretary
  19. 1997-09-29
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    Company incorporated
    As KEPSTORN LIMITED
  20. 1997-09-29
    ➕
    JONES, Calum Symon appointed
    director
  21. 1997-09-29
    ➕
    JONES, Janice appointed
    director
  22. 1997-09-29
    ➕
    KIDSTONS & CO SOLICITORS appointed
    corporate-secretary

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Calum Symon Jones
Individual · British · DOB 11/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Janice Jones
Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1997-09-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Kepstorn
Knockbuckle Road
Kilmacolm
Renfrewshire
PA13 4JU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-13
Last: 2025-09-29

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

JONES, Calum Symon→
secretary · appointed 1999-08-06
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Active
JONES, Calum Symon→
director · ~62y · appointed 1997-09-29
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Active
JONES, Janice→
director · ~59y · appointed 1997-09-29
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Active
KIDSTONS & CO SOLICITORS→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-09-29 · resigned 1999-08-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Kepstorn Solicitors
Kepstorn Solicitors Limited
A registered charge—18/07/2022—
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Recent filings (65 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-07
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2022-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-04
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-07-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-29