ELITE SYSTEMS (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC202089 · ltd · incorporated 1999-11-26
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 May 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Computer facilities management activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
64 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£0May 2023May 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-05-312023-05-31
Average employees00

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
3
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-30
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  2. 2026-04-23
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  3. 2026-04-01
    ➕
    MACKAY, Linda appointed
    director
  4. 2025-01-17
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-08-16
    ➖
    SNEDDON, Walter resigned
    secretary
  6. 2024-03-21
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-02-28
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-02-28
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-05-19
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-07-08
    📄
    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  11. 2020-07-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-01-22
    ➖
    MCALLISTER, Ewan Stewart resigned
    director
  14. 2019-02-26
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-01-19
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  18. 1999-11-26
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ELITE SYSTEMS (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED
  19. 1999-11-26
    ➕
    MACKAY, Samuel Baird appointed
    director
  20. 1999-11-26
    ➕
    SNEDDON, Walter appointed
    secretary
  21. 1999-11-26
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1999-11-26
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1999-11-26
    ➕
    MCALLISTER, Ewan Stewart appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
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 68. 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 26 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Samuel Baird Mackay
Individual · British · DOB 06/1958 · age 68
25–50%
—25-50% shares · firm interest06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Ewan Mccallisterceased 22/01/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-11-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62030 — Computer facilities management activities

Registered office

Elite Control Systems Ltd
Elite House, Starlaw Business
Park, Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 8SF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last made up to: 2024-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-16
Last: 2026-02-02

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

MACKAY, Linda→
director · ~66y · appointed 2026-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACKAY, Samuel Baird→
director · ~68y · appointed 1999-11-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SNEDDON, Walter→
secretary · appointed 1999-11-26 · resigned 2024-08-16
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-11-26 · resigned 1999-11-26
Resigned
MCALLISTER, Ewan Stewart→
director · ~65y · appointed 1999-11-26 · resigned 2020-01-22
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-30
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2026-04-30
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-05-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-24
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-07-08