BRAEMARA LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC202577 · ltd · incorporated 1999-12-22
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.
Why now
Window steady · high confidence
Thesis has shifted recently — watch for confirmation.
  • · Lifecycle stage: mature → zombie
  • · Investment thesis: well_run_hard_buy → zombie_hold
  • · Deal-killer verdict: clean → workable
  • · Hygiene score: 90 → 85
Opportunity decay
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "zombie"
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture worsened over the last 30 days — 3 negative signals vs 1 positive.

  • ↓Lifecycle stage: mature → zombie
  • ·Investment thesis: well_run_hard_buy → zombie_hold
  • ↑Deal-killer verdict: clean → workable
  • ↓Hygiene score: 90 → 85
  • ↓Refinance opportunity: ready → under_pressure
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£786.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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
Asset-holding vehicle with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 25.0y

45/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (1 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
70 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £786,666
Cash YoY
+737%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£130k
↑ 737% YoY
Net Worth
£787k
↑ 3.1% YoY
Current Assets
£214k
↑ 356% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£157k£315k£472k£629k£787kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£816.7k£821.3k
Current assets£213.6k£46.8k
Cash£130.0k£15.5k
Debtors£83.6k£31.3k
Net assets£786.7k£762.8k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-29
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-05-29
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2026-05-26
    ➖
    BODY, Teda Ann resigned
    director
  4. 2025-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-11-26
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  6. 2024-11-26
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  7. 2024-11-26
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    Charge satisfied #2
  8. 2024-11-26
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    Charge satisfied #1
  9. 2024-11-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2024-09-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2024-09-17
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2023-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2022-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2022-06-01
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    mortgage-charge-whole-release-with-charge-number
    mortgage · MR05
  15. 2021-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-08-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-03-12
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    mortgage-charge-part-release-with-charge-number
    mortgage · MR05
  18. 2019-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2018-11-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2009-12-22
    ➖
    NAVER LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2004-01-05
    ➖
    BODY, Teda Ann resigned
    secretary
  22. 2004-01-05
    ➕
    NAVER LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2002-03-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  24. 2001-06-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  25. 1999-12-22
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BRAEMARA LIMITED
  26. 1999-12-22
    ➕
    BODY, Peter John appointed
    director
  27. 1999-12-22
    ➕
    BODY, Teda Ann appointed
    secretary
  28. 1999-12-22
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1999-12-22
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1999-12-22
    ➕
    BODY, Teda Ann 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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter John Body
Individual · British · DOB 04/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting22/12/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Teda Ann Bodyceased 26/05/2026· 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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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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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
Incorporated1999-12-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

Braemara
Scarfskerry
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 8XW

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last: 2026-02-14

Officers (1 active · 4 resigned)

BODY, Peter John→
director · ~80y · appointed 1999-12-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BODY, Teda Ann→
secretary · appointed 1999-12-22 · resigned 2004-01-05
Resigned
NAVER LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-01-05 · resigned 2009-12-22
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-12-22 · resigned 1999-12-22
Resigned
BODY, Teda Ann→
director · ~81y · appointed 1999-12-22 · resigned 2026-05-26
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property05/03/200226/11/2024
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property14/06/200126/11/2024

Recent filings (70 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-05-29
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-25
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-11-26
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-11-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-09-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-14
mortgage-charge-whole-release-with-charge-number
mortgage · MR05
2022-06-01