THE PRESENT SHOP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC195314 · ltd · incorporated 1999-04-16
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
83 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees600-500

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
4
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-29
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  2. 2026-04-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2026-04-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2025-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-11-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-01-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-02-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2021-02-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2021-02-23
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2021-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-05-21
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2019-05-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2019-05-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2019-05-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2019-05-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2001-05-24
    ➕
    SVENSON, Astrid Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  20. 2001-05-24
    ➖
    MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol resigned
    secretary
  21. 2001-05-24
    ➖
    MCINTYRE, Keith William resigned
    director
  22. 2001-05-24
    ➖
    MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol resigned
    director
  23. 2000-10-23
    ➕
    MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol appointed
    secretary
  24. 2000-10-23
    ➖
    ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL & HARLEY resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2000-10-23
    ➖
    BLACK, Douglas Maclean resigned
    nominee-director
  26. 1999-04-17
    ➕
    COLLINS, James appointed
    director
  27. 1999-04-17
    ➕
    SVENSON, Astrid Elizabeth appointed
    director
  28. 1999-04-17
    ➕
    MCINTYRE, Keith William appointed
    director
  29. 1999-04-17
    ➕
    MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol appointed
    director
  30. 1999-04-16
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As THE PRESENT SHOP LIMITED
  31. 1999-04-16
    ➕
    ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL & HARLEY appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 1999-04-16
    ➕
    BLACK, Douglas Maclean appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-04-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47789 — Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)

Registered office

7 Seafield Gardens
Kirkcaldy
Fife
KY1 1PJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last: 2026-04-16

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

SVENSON, Astrid Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2001-05-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COLLINS, James→
director · ~64y · appointed 1999-04-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SVENSON, Astrid Elizabeth→
director · ~81y · appointed 1999-04-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol→
secretary · appointed 2000-10-23 · resigned 2001-05-24
Resigned
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL & HARLEY→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-04-16 · resigned 2000-10-23
Resigned
BLACK, Douglas Maclean→
nominee-director · ~67y · appointed 1999-04-16 · resigned 2000-10-23
Resigned
MCINTYRE, Keith William→
director · ~60y · appointed 1999-04-17 · resigned 2001-05-24
Resigned
MCINTYRE, Lynne Carol→
director · ~55y · appointed 1999-04-17 · resigned 2001-05-24
Resigned

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Recent filings (83 total)

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2026-04-29
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-11-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-02-23