DOUGALL HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC182259 · ltd · incorporated 1998-01-20
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 Aug 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
101 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Aug 2023Aug 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-08-312023-08-31

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-09
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  2. 2026-04-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2026-01-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-01-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-10-30
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2025-10-01
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    DOUGALL, John Marshall resigned
    director
  7. 2025-05-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-05-31
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  9. 2024-05-27
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2024-05-02
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  11. 2024-04-25
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2024-04-25
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2024-04-25
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2024-04-09
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    officers · TM01
  15. 2024-03-28
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    CLARK, Jan Marshall resigned
    director
  16. 2023-06-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  17. 2023-05-19
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
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  18. 2023-05-19
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  19. 2023-05-19
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  20. 2023-05-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  21. 2023-05-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  22. 2022-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  23. 2014-07-31
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    DI FOLCO, Alberto Anthony resigned
    secretary
  24. 2006-09-01
    ➕
    DOUGAL, Alexandra Jay appointed
    director
  25. 2006-09-01
    ➕
    CLARK, Jan Marshall appointed
    director
  26. 2005-06-30
    ➖
    COCOZZA, Adriano resigned
    director
  27. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    DOUGALL, Thomas Barclay appointed
    director
  28. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    DI FOLCO, Alberto Anthony appointed
    secretary
  29. 1998-05-22
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    COCOZZA, Adriano appointed
    director
  31. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    DOUGALL, John Marshall appointed
    director
  32. 1998-05-22
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  33. 1998-01-20
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    Company incorporated
    As DOUGALL HOLDINGS LIMITED
  34. 1998-01-20
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  35. 1998-01-20
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

98/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "DOUGAL" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.

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 84 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 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Thomas Barclay Dougall
Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control22/05/2016
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Maritime Trustees Limitedceased 02/04/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest
  • Mrs Alexandra Jay Dougallceased 04/04/2024· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest
  • Mrs Jan Marshall Dougallceased 27/03/2024· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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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🔒Advanced scoring suite

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
Incorporated1998-01-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Balmore House
1497 Balmore Road
Glasgow
G23 5HD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last made up to: 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-23
Last: 2026-04-09

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

DOUGAL, Alexandra Jay→
director · ~84y · appointed 2006-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOUGALL, Thomas Barclay→
director · ~59y · appointed 1998-05-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DI FOLCO, Alberto Anthony→
secretary · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 2014-07-31
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-01-20 · resigned 1998-05-22
Resigned
CLARK, Jan Marshall→
director · ~56y · appointed 2006-09-01 · resigned 2024-03-28
Resigned
COCOZZA, Adriano→
director · ~81y · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 2005-06-30
Resigned
DOUGALL, John Marshall→
director · ~83y · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 2025-10-01
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-01-20 · resigned 1998-05-22
Resigned

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Recent filings (101 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-10
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-26
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-10-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-02
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2024-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-05-27
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2024-05-02
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-04-25
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-04-25