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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 27.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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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 27.7y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 27.7 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 (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
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees72006600

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-05-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-06-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2022-06-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2022-04-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2021-07-02
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2021-05-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-01-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  11. 2020-06-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-09-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-06-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-21
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2016-03-17
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2003-01-01
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    MOLENAAR, Michiel appointed
    director
  18. 1998-08-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  19. 1998-05-22
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    Company incorporated
    As KENNEDYSMITH (PRESS) LIMITED
  20. 1998-05-22
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    TAN, Janyn Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  21. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    TAN, Janyn Elizabeth appointed
    director
  22. 1998-05-22
    ➕
    TAN, Jen Wei appointed
    director
  23. 1998-05-22
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    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1998-05-22
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    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  25. 1998-05-22
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    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  26. 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Jen Wei Tan
Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016

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

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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: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-08
Last: 2025-05-25

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

TAN, Janyn Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 1998-05-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MOLENAAR, Michiel→
director · ~59y · appointed 2003-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TAN, Janyn Elizabeth→
director · ~63y · appointed 1998-05-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TAN, Jen Wei→
director · ~66y · appointed 1998-05-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property19/08/1998—
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Recent filings (76 total)

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
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-22
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-01-27