WILLIAM DUNCAN (I.T. SOLUTIONS) LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC192500 · ltd · incorporated 1999-01-13
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 24.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
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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: Other information technology service activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 24.9y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.9 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
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
97 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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees600600

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-20
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  2. 2026-04-20
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  3. 2025-10-07
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    capital · SH06
  4. 2025-10-07
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  5. 2025-09-09
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  6. 2025-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  7. 2024-03-15
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  8. 2023-08-11
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-03-24
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  10. 2023-03-24
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  11. 2023-03-23
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  12. 2023-03-20
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    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  13. 2023-02-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2022-08-04
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  15. 2022-08-03
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  16. 2022-08-03
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  17. 2022-04-08
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  18. 2021-09-21
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  19. 2021-03-15
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    officers · TM01
  20. 2021-03-12
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    NAIRN, Alex resigned
    director
  21. 2021-01-01
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    NAIRN, Alex appointed
    director
  22. 2020-12-31
    ➖
    WALLACE, John resigned
    director
  23. 2016-05-31
    ➕
    MILLAR, Crawford appointed
    director
  24. 2015-09-30
    ➖
    PICKLES, Andrew John resigned
    director
  25. 2010-02-01
    ➖
    LAWRIE, Samuel John Steele resigned
    director
  26. 2005-12-31
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    MOWAT, William James Martin resigned
    director
  27. 2001-07-02
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  28. 1999-01-13
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    Company incorporated
    As WILLIAM DUNCAN (I.T. SOLUTIONS) LTD
  29. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    FERGUSSON, Robert appointed
    secretary
  30. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    FERGUSSON, Robert appointed
    director
  31. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  32. 1999-01-13
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  33. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    LAWRIE, Samuel John Steele appointed
    director
  34. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  35. 1999-01-13
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director
  36. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    MOWAT, William James Martin appointed
    director
  37. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    PICKLES, Andrew John appointed
    director
  38. 1999-01-13
    ➕
    WALLACE, John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

R Fergusson Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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R Fergusson Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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WILLIAM DUNCAN (I.T. SOLUTIONS) LTD
This company · SC192500

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
R Fergusson Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares14/03/2023
Crawford Millar
Individual · British · DOB 11/1981 · age 45
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Robert Fergussonceased 14/03/2023· significant influence
  • William Duncan + Co Ltdceased 01/09/2022· 75-100% shares

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

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6 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
Incorporated1999-01-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

30 Miller Road
Ayr
Ayrshire
KA7 2AY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-10
Last: 2026-03-27

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

FERGUSSON, Robert→
secretary · appointed 1999-01-13
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Active
FERGUSSON, Robert→
director · ~63y · appointed 1999-01-13
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Active
MILLAR, Crawford→
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-05-31
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Active
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 1999-01-13
Resigned
LAWRIE, Samuel John Steele→
director · ~79y · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 2010-02-01
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 1999-01-13
Resigned
MOWAT, William James Martin→
director · ~84y · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 2005-12-31
Resigned
NAIRN, Alex→
director · ~42y · appointed 2021-01-01 · resigned 2021-03-12
Resigned
PICKLES, Andrew John→
director · ~77y · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 2015-09-30
Resigned
WALLACE, John→
director · ~68y · appointed 1999-01-13 · resigned 2020-12-31
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 property02/07/2001—
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Recent filings (97 total)

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-20
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-04-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-27
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2025-10-07
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2025-10-07
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-27
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-03-24
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-03-24
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-03-23