KENNEDYSMITH (PRESS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC186009 · ltd · incorporated 1998-05-22

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 27.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 17290

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). 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

1 live charge · oldest 27.8y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 27.8 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 (87/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

81 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	72	7200	6600

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

filings

• 1 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 miscellaneous

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 miscellaneous

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 miscellaneous

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

2026-06-10
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-26
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legacy
miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
2026-05-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-05
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-05-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-21
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-06-21
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-20
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-07-02
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-05-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-27
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-06-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-09-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2003-01-01
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MOLENAAR, Michiel appointed
director
1998-08-19
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1998-05-22
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Company incorporated
As KENNEDYSMITH (PRESS) LIMITED
1998-05-22
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TAN, Janyn Elizabeth appointed
secretary
1998-05-22
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TAN, Janny Elizabeth appointed
director
1998-05-22
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TAN, Jen Wei appointed
director
1998-05-22
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REID, Brian appointed
nominee-secretary
1998-05-22
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REID, Brian resigned
nominee-secretary
1998-05-22
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MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
nominee-director
1998-05-22
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MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
nominee-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 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Jen Wei Tan Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	06/04/2016

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.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1998-05-22

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC17290 — SIC 17290

Registered office

2a Brewster Place

Riverside Business Park

Irvine

North Ayrshire

KA11 5DD

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-06-08

Last: 2026-05-25

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

TAN, Janyn Elizabeth→

secretary · appointed 1998-05-22

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Active

MOLENAAR, Michiel→

director · ~59y · appointed 2003-01-01

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Active

TAN, Janny Elizabeth→

director · ~63y · appointed 1998-05-22

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Active

TAN, Jen Wei→

director · ~66y · appointed 1998-05-22

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Active

REID, Brian→

nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 1998-05-22

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen→

nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 1998-05-22

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	19/08/1998	—

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Recent filings (81 total)

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

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2026-06-10

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-05-26

legacy

miscellaneous · RP01PSC01

2026-05-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-05-15

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-05-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-05-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-05-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-05-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-05-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-06-22

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-05-30

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-06-21

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2022-06-21

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2022-06-21

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-04-14