GP PLUS LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC192027 · ltd · incorporated 1998-12-17
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: General medical practice activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 22.6y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
13 officers (1 active, 13 linked, 11 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
127 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
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£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees500500

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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (44 events)Click to expand
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  3. 2023-07-27
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  4. 2022-07-29
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  17. 2018-04-20
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  18. 2018-04-10
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    COPP, Graham Laing resigned
    director
  19. 2017-08-23
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    MORISON, Alexander Rutherford resigned
    director
  20. 2017-08-23
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    MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford resigned
    director
  21. 2017-05-03
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    MORISON, Alexander Rutherford appointed
    director
  22. 2017-05-03
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    MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford appointed
    director
  23. 2017-04-29
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    COPP, Graham Laing appointed
    director
  24. 2017-01-03
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    MORISON, Alexander Rutherford resigned
    director
  25. 2017-01-03
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    MORISON, Charlotte Rutherford resigned
    director
  26. 2017-01-03
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    MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford resigned
    director
  27. 2017-01-03
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    MORISON, Juliette Rutherford resigned
    director
  28. 2016-03-01
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    MORISON, Alexander Rutherford appointed
    director
  29. 2016-03-01
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    MORISON, Charlotte Rutherford appointed
    director
  30. 2016-03-01
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    MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford appointed
    director
  31. 2016-03-01
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    MORISON, Juliette Rutherford appointed
    director
  32. 2013-04-01
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford resigned
    director
  33. 2011-02-28
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford resigned
    secretary
  34. 2008-08-25
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford appointed
    director
  35. 2005-09-01
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    GORDON, Kirsteen Elizabeth Morison resigned
    director
  36. 2005-06-01
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford resigned
    director
  37. 2003-10-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  38. 2000-03-20
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    GORDON, Kirsteen Elizabeth Morison appointed
    director
  39. 1998-12-17
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    Company incorporated
    As GP PLUS LIMITED
  40. 1998-12-17
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    COPP, Peter Alexander James, Dr appointed
    director
  41. 1998-12-17
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford appointed
    secretary
  42. 1998-12-17
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  43. 1998-12-17
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  44. 1998-12-17
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    COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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.)

Group structure

Edimed Developments Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Edimed Developments Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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GP PLUS LIMITED
This company · SC192027

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Edimed Developments Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting25/10/2021
Dr Peter Alexander James Copp
Individual · British · DOB 12/1961 · age 65
——sig. influencesignificant influence13/02/2022
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Dr Peter Alexander James Coppceased 25/10/2021· 75-100% shares
  • Dr Peter Alexander James Coppceased 25/10/2021· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · trust interest · firm interest
  • Ms Gillian Louise Rutherford Morisonceased 23/08/2017· 25-50% shares

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

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8 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
Incorporated1998-12-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC86210 — General medical practice activities

Registered office

24 Dundas Street Dundas Street
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH3 6JN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-26
Last: 2026-02-12

Officers (1 active · 12 resigned)

COPP, Peter Alexander James, Dr→
director · ~65y · appointed 1998-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-17 · resigned 2011-02-28
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-12-17 · resigned 1998-12-17
Resigned
COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford→
director · ~60y · appointed 2008-08-25 · resigned 2013-04-01
Resigned
COPP, Gillian Louise Rutherford→
director · ~60y · appointed 1998-12-17 · resigned 2005-06-01
Resigned
COPP, Graham Laing→
director · ~63y · appointed 2017-04-29 · resigned 2018-04-10
Resigned
GORDON, Kirsteen Elizabeth Morison→
director · ~62y · appointed 2000-03-20 · resigned 2005-09-01
Resigned
MORISON, Alexander Rutherford→
director · ~33y · appointed 2017-05-03 · resigned 2017-08-23
Resigned
MORISON, Alexander Rutherford→
director · ~33y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned
MORISON, Charlotte Rutherford→
director · ~32y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned
MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford→
director · ~60y · appointed 2017-05-03 · resigned 2017-08-23
Resigned
MORISON, Gillian Louise Rutherford→
director · ~60y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned
MORISON, Juliette Rutherford→
director · ~27y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property24/10/2003—
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Recent filings (127 total)

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2026-02-20
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accounts · AA
2025-07-23
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2025-02-20
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2024-07-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-12
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accounts · AA
2023-07-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-29
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-07-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-18
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accounts · AA01
2022-01-05
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accounts · AA
2021-12-23
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