GARDINERS OF SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC207381 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-23
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 25.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£2.80M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10822
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 25.8y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 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 £2,800,343
Cash YoY
+24%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.4m
↑ 24% YoY
Net Worth
£2.8m
↑ 25% YoY
Current Assets
£3.1m
↑ 22% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£613k£1.2m£1.8m£2.5m£3.1mJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£2.84M£2.28M
Current assets£3.07M£2.51M
Cash£1.44M£1.16M
Debtors£666.5k£709.8k
Net assets£2.80M£2.24M

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-12
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    officers · TM02
  3. 2025-04-30
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    SCOTT, David Grahame resigned
    secretary
  4. 2025-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-03-17
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  7. 2022-03-25
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-03-06
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-02-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-02-21
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  12. 2019-02-21
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2018-05-24
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    officers · TM01
  14. 2018-04-30
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    GARDINER, Thomas Bell resigned
    director
  15. 2018-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-03-24
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-05-26
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    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2016-02-22
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    accounts · AA
  19. 2000-06-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2000-06-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  21. 2000-06-16
    ➖
    GARDINER, Maureen Anne resigned
    secretary
  22. 2000-06-16
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    SCOTT, David Grahame appointed
    secretary
  23. 2000-05-23
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    Company incorporated
    As GARDINERS OF SCOTLAND LIMITED
  24. 2000-05-23
    ➕
    GARDINER, Maureen Anne appointed
    director
  25. 2000-05-23
    ➕
    GARDINER, Thomas Hamilton appointed
    director
  26. 2000-05-23
    ➕
    GARDINER, Maureen Anne appointed
    secretary
  27. 2000-05-23
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2000-05-23
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 2000-05-23
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    GARDINER, Thomas Bell 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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "GARDINER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — 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 85 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Thomas Hamilton Gardiner
Individual · British · DOB 06/1966 · age 60
75–100%
—75-100% shares07/06/2018
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Thomas Bell Gardinerceased 30/04/2018· 50-75% shares

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
Incorporated2000-05-23
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10822 — SIC 10822

Registered office

Turfholm
Lesmahagow
Lanark
Lanarkshire
ML11 0ED

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-26
Last: 2025-05-12

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

GARDINER, Maureen Anne→
director · ~85y · appointed 2000-05-23
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Active
GARDINER, Thomas Hamilton→
director · ~60y · appointed 2000-05-23
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Active
GARDINER, Maureen Anne→
secretary · appointed 2000-05-23 · resigned 2000-06-16
Resigned
SCOTT, David Grahame→
secretary · appointed 2000-06-16 · resigned 2025-04-30
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-05-23 · resigned 2000-05-23
Resigned
GARDINER, Thomas Bell→
director · ~81y · appointed 2000-05-23 · resigned 2018-04-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property30/06/2000—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property30/06/2000—
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Recent filings (71 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-12
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-06-03