SUNART SEA FARM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC207184 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-16

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

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£-9.1k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03210

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

46380Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

55 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £9,118

Very low cash

Cash position: £93

Cash YoY

+830%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£93

↑ 830% YoY

Net Worth

-£9k

↓ 215% YoY

Current Assets

£11k

↑ 39% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£-9.1k	£-2.9k
Current assets	£11.4k	£8.2k
Cash	£93	£10
Debtors	£11.3k	£8.2k
Net assets	£-9.1k	£-2.9k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-04-02
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2025-04-29
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2024-04-19
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2023-01-23
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2022-04-19
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2021-04-29
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2020-02-25
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2019-04-29
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2018-04-26
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2017-04-21
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accounts · AA
2016-05-19
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2016-04-05
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accounts · AA
2016-01-14
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GEORGE, Arlette Kim resigned
director
2016-01-14
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officers · TM01
2015-06-11
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annual-return · AR01
2015-02-24
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2014-06-11
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2013-10-15
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GEORGE, Arlette Kim appointed
director
2000-05-16
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Company incorporated
As SUNART SEA FARM LIMITED
2000-05-16
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GEORGE, Maria appointed
secretary
2000-05-16
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GEORGE, Maria appointed
director
2000-05-16
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GEORGE, Rodney appointed
director
2000-05-16
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-05-16
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
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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 87 — 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 87 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.)

Group structure

R & M George (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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R & M George (Holdings) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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SUNART SEA FARM LIMITED

This company · SC207184

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
R & M George (Holdings) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2000-05-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03210 — SIC 03210

Registered office

Salen

Acharacle

Argyll

PH36 4JN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-30

Last: 2025-05-16

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

GEORGE, Maria→

secretary · appointed 2000-05-16

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Active

GEORGE, Maria→

director · ~82y · appointed 2000-05-16

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Active

GEORGE, Rodney→

director · ~87y · appointed 2000-05-16

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2000-05-16

Resigned

GEORGE, Arlette Kim→

director · ~60y · appointed 2013-10-15 · resigned 2016-01-14

Resigned

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