BEAR SCOTLAND LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC206139 · ltd · incorporated 2000-04-11
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 24.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Construction of roads and motorways
Sector: Construction
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, 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 (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.6y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 24.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 38/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (72/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
67 officers (13 active, 67 linked, 60 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
211 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation
Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →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
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-12-31 |
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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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
4
filings
- • 3 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 4 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (145 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-09📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2026-04-09📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2026-04-09📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2026-04-01➕FINLAYSON, Jamie appointeddirector
- 2026-04-01➕SCOTT, Euan Andrew appointeddirector
- 2026-04-01➖MURRAY, Iain William resigneddirector
- 2026-01-12📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2026-01-01➕THOMPSON, Andrew appointeddirector
- 2025-08-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-08-01➕THORPE, Anthony Edward appointeddirector
- 2024-08-01📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2024-02-16📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2024-02-03➕MACKAY, Andrew Michael appointeddirector
- 2023-10-13📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-10-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2023-10-01➖CAIRNDUFF, Robert Holmes resigneddirector
- 2023-08-28📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-07-31➖BARTON, James Graham resigneddirector
- 2023-04-24📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2023-01-09📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-01-09📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-01-01➕SOLANKI, Mitesh Jayantilal appointeddirector
- 2022-12-31➖WARDROP, Scott Alexander resigneddirector
- 2022-12-13📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-12-13📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-11-30➕DIXON, John appointeddirector
- 2022-11-30➖DAVIES, Mark John resigneddirector
- 2022-10-11📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-10-10➕SUNDERLAND, John Mark appointeddirector
- 2022-10-10➖PAJOT, Alexandre Jerome, Georges resigneddirector
- 2022-10-10📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-15📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-06-13➕CAIRNDUFF, Robert Holmes appointeddirector
- 2022-03-11➖BARBER, Timothy George resigneddirector
- 2022-02-17➕HALUCH, James Stefan appointeddirector
- 2022-02-17➖MCDONALD, Ross Edward resigneddirector
- 2021-05-20➕PAJOT, Alexandre Jerome, Georges appointeddirector
- 2021-02-01➖FERRER, Christophe Gaetan Louis resigneddirector
- 2021-01-06➕BARBER, Timothy George appointeddirector
- 2021-01-06➖COULTAS, David Joseph resigneddirector
- 2019-12-06➕DAVIES, Mark John appointeddirector
- 2019-12-06➖MORRISON, Hugh Donald resigneddirector
- 2018-09-03➖BATUT, Gregoire Claude Albert resigneddirector
- 2018-09-03➕FERRER, Christophe Gaetan Louis appointeddirector
- 2018-05-02➕MCDONALD, Ross Edward appointeddirector
- 2018-05-02➖WOOD, Robert resigneddirector
- 2017-11-14➖DUFF, Robert Shepherd resigneddirector
- 2017-11-14➕MORRISON, Hugh Donald appointeddirector
Showing most recent 50 of 145 events
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -12 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
63/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
3 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.
🏛️
Jacobs U.K. Limited
Corporate parent
🏛️significant stake
Vinci Construction Holding Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
🏛️significant stake
Breedon Facilities Management Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
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BEAR SCOTLAND LIMITED
This company · SC206139
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Vinci Construction Holding Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Breedon Facilities Management Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Jacobs U.K. Limited Corporate entity | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 03/03/2020 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Jacobs One Limitedceased 03/03/2020· significant influence
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-04-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC42110 — Construction of roads and motorways
Registered office
Bear House,Inveralmond Road
Inveralmond Industrial Estate
Perth
PH1 3TW
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-25
Last: 2026-04-11
Officers (13 active · 54 resigned)
BROWN, Martine Sandra→
Activesecretary · appointed 2016-10-12
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BROWN, Martine Sandra→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2016-10-11
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Active
FINLAYSON, Jamie→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2026-04-01
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GODSELL, Mark→
Activedirector · ~54y · appointed 2008-12-04
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HALUCH, James Stefan→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 2022-02-17
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MACKAY, Andrew Michael→
Activedirector · ~54y · appointed 2024-02-03
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MACKENZIE, Alan Kenneth→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2009-10-14
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SCOTT, Euan Andrew→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2026-04-01
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SOLANKI, Mitesh Jayantilal→
Activedirector · ~52y · appointed 2023-01-01
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SUNDERLAND, John Mark→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2022-10-10
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THOMPSON, Andrew→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2026-01-01
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THORPE, Anthony Edward→
Activedirector · ~37y · appointed 2024-08-01
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KENNEDY, Ciaran Anthony→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2000-09-18 · resigned 2002-07-08
RICHARDSON, Lyn→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2002-07-08 · resigned 2003-05-15
SMITH, Ian Patrick→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2003-05-15 · resigned 2016-07-01
TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-04-11 · resigned 2000-09-19
AMOSSE, Francois Jean→
Resigneddirector · ~69y · appointed 2008-01-01 · resigned 2011-07-31
BARBER, Timothy George→
Resigneddirector · ~55y · appointed 2021-01-06 · resigned 2022-03-11
BARLOW, John→
Resigneddirector · ~80y · appointed 2001-07-03 · resigned 2001-12-04
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 04/01/2007 | — | |
| satisfied | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Floating charge | 1 property | 25/09/2001 | 21/11/2007 |
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Recent filings (211 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-04-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-04-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-08-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-10-03
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-08-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-17
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-02-16
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-10-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-08-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-24