SCOTWELD GROUP SERVICES LIMITED

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SC183317 · ltd · incorporated 1998-02-25

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 23.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£1.85M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 23.5y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 23.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

90 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,854,130

Net assets shrinking

Down £30,332 YoY

Cash YoY

+348%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£166k

↑ 348% YoY

Net Worth

£1.9m

↓ 1.6% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£1.85M	£1.88M
Cash	£166.0k	£37.1k
Net assets	£1.85M	£1.88M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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accounts · AA
2025-04-30
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accounts · AA
2024-02-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-12-13
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-11-09
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accounts · AA
2022-07-29
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officers · AP01
2022-07-29
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officers · AP01
2022-07-15
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BAGGLEY, Fiona appointed
director
2022-07-15
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SINHA, Rajeev Kumar appointed
director
2022-02-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-25
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-12-21
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accounts · AA
2021-07-09
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-04-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2020-08-14
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2020-08-14
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2020-08-14
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capital · SH01
2020-08-14
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capital · SH02
2020-08-14
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capital · SH10
2020-08-14
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capital · SH08
2020-04-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2014-09-30
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2014-08-22
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2013-01-30
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MOFFAT, Stephen William resigned
director
2002-11-18
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1998-02-25
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Company incorporated
As SCOTWELD GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
1998-02-25
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BAGGLEY, Fiona appointed
secretary
1998-02-25
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NIXON, George appointed
director
1998-02-25
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REID, Brian appointed
nominee-secretary
1998-02-25
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REID, Brian resigned
nominee-secretary
1998-02-25
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MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
nominee-director
1998-02-25
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MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
nominee-director
1998-02-25
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MOFFAT, Stephen William appointed
director

Owner dependency

75/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr George Nixon Individual · British · DOB 01/1952 · age 74	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Rajeev Kumar Sinha Individual · British · DOB 01/1968 · age 58	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	22/06/2021

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.

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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →

🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 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

Incorporated1998-02-25

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

270 Petershill Road

Glasgow

G21 4AY

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-11

Last: 2026-02-25

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

BAGGLEY, Fiona→

secretary · appointed 1998-02-25

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BAGGLEY, Fiona→

director · ~61y · appointed 2022-07-15

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Active

NIXON, George→

director · ~74y · appointed 1998-02-25

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SINHA, Rajeev Kumar→

director · ~58y · appointed 2022-07-15

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

REID, Brian→

nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-02-25 · resigned 1998-02-25

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen→

nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1998-02-25 · resigned 1998-02-25

Resigned

MOFFAT, Stephen William→

director · ~72y · appointed 1998-02-25 · resigned 2013-01-30

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	30/09/2014	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	22/08/2014	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	18/11/2002	—

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Recent filings (90 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2026-04-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2025-04-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-03-10

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-02-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2024-02-16

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2023-12-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2023-11-09

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-03-01

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2022-07-29

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2022-07-29

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-02-25

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-02-25

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-02-25

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2021-12-21