CRAIGSHANNOCH LIMITED

📈Growthactive

SC191743 · ltd · incorporated 1998-12-07

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 22.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£2.95M

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 22.0y

80/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 22.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

12 officers (6 active, 12 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

14 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

103 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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,287,808

Turnover YoY

+1%

Year on year

Key financials

2 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	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Turnover	£2.95M	£2.92M
Gross profit	£2.95M	£2.92M
Operating profit	£1.24M	£1.28M
Profit before tax	£1.29M	£956.8k
Average employees	300	300

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

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand

2026-03-31
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accounts · AA
2025-08-25
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mortgage · MR01
2025-08-22
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Charge registered #2
Lender: J.P. Morgan SE
2025-07-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-23
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-17
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address · AD01
2025-07-02
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officers · AP01
2025-07-02
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officers · AP01
2025-07-01
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WELSH, Christy Nicole appointed
director
2025-07-01
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WELSH, Connor Ian appointed
director
2024-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-09-16
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-01-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-24
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accounts · AA
2020-02-14
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accounts · AA
2019-03-30
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gazette · DISS40
2019-03-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-04-06
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Charge satisfied #1
2015-08-31
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FREEMAN, David Sidney resigned
director
2013-01-16
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BURNESS PAULL LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2013-01-16
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PAULL & WILLIAMSONS LLP resigned
corporate-secretary
2009-04-06
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PAULL & WILLIAMSONS resigned
corporate-secretary
2009-04-06
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PAULL & WILLIAMSONS LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2004-04-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Citibank Na
2004-04-19
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WELSH, Wendy Anderson appointed
secretary
2002-06-28
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FREEMAN, David Sidney appointed
director
2001-01-15
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WELSH, Wendy Anderson appointed
director
1999-04-29
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FREEMAN, David Sidney resigned
secretary
1999-04-29
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PAULL & WILLIAMSONS appointed
corporate-secretary
1999-04-28
➕
WELSH, Colin Ian appointed
director
1999-04-28
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FREEMAN, David Sidney appointed
secretary
1999-04-28
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MORONEY, Jill Lea resigned
nominee-secretary
1999-04-28
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MCNIVEN, Alan Ross resigned
director
1998-12-07
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Company incorporated
As CRAIGSHANNOCH LIMITED
1998-12-07
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MORONEY, Jill Lea appointed
nominee-secretary
1998-12-07
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MCNIVEN, Alan Ross appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

30/100

Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — WELSH, Christy Nicole (same surname) appointed 2025-07-01. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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.)

Group structure

Glendevon Capital Partners Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Glendevon Capital Partners Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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CRAIGSHANNOCH LIMITED

This company · SC191743

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Glendevon Capital Partners Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	12/04/2024

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Colin Ian Welshceased 12/04/2024· 25-50% shares

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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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

Incorporated1998-12-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

15 Rubislaw Terrace

Aberdeen

AB10 1XE

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-21

Last: 2025-12-07