AVD COMPUTING LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC206963 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-09
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to May 2025
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Opportunity
80/100
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 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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 (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
75 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees3300

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-23
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  2. 2025-02-26
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  3. 2024-02-26
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  4. 2023-05-10
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  5. 2023-04-28
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  8. 2023-04-28
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  9. 2023-04-28
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  10. 2023-04-26
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  12. 2023-01-11
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  13. 2022-02-10
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  14. 2021-02-25
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  15. 2020-01-29
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  16. 2019-01-25
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  17. 2018-05-14
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  18. 2000-05-09
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    Company incorporated
    As AVD COMPUTING LTD.
  19. 2000-05-09
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    DURIE, Alan appointed
    secretary
  20. 2000-05-09
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    DURIE, Alan appointed
    director
  21. 2000-05-09
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    DURIE, Veronica Mary appointed
    director
  22. 2000-05-09
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    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2000-05-09
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2000-05-09
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2000-05-09
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 71 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 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
Mrs Veronica Mary Durie
Individual · British · DOB 03/1957 · age 69
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Alan Durieceased 21/02/2022· 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-05-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

Chapelshade House
78-84 Bell Street
Dundee
DD1 1HN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-23
Last: 2025-05-09

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

DURIE, Alan→
secretary · appointed 2000-05-09
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Active
DURIE, Alan→
director · ~71y · appointed 2000-05-09
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Active
DURIE, Veronica Mary→
director · ~69y · appointed 2000-05-09
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Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-05-09 · resigned 2000-05-09
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-05-09 · resigned 2000-05-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (75 total)

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2026-01-23
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2025-05-09
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accounts · AA
2025-02-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-05-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-28
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-04-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-11