CHARISMA HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC207704 · ltd · incorporated 2000-06-02

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 25.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03110

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). 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

1 live charge · oldest 25.9y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 25.9 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 (64/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

13 officers (7 active, 13 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

85 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30
Average employees	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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accounts · AA
2026-01-09
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HUTCHISON, Richard appointed
director
2026-01-09
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officers · AP01
2025-12-23
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officers · TM01
2025-12-11
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HUTCHISON, David Kay resigned
director
2025-06-12
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officers · AP03
2025-06-12
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-06-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-01
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SCOLLAY, John Magnus appointed
secretary
2025-05-30
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HENDERSON, Hazel Jane resigned
secretary
2025-04-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-04
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accounts · AA
2023-02-06
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accounts · AA
2022-03-22
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accounts · AA
2021-04-15
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accounts · AA
2020-12-04
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address · AD01
2019-12-12
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accounts · AA
2019-01-07
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accounts · AA
2018-02-06
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accounts · AA
2017-06-16
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officers · TM01
2016-10-21
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ANDERSON, John David resigned
director
2000-08-31
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SIMPSON, Richard Harald resigned
director
2000-08-31
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SMITH, Wills Martin resigned
director
2000-06-26
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ANDERSON, Colin Greig appointed
director
2000-06-26
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PEARSON, John Laurence appointed
director
2000-06-26
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POLSON, William appointed
director
2000-06-26
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TULLOCH, James John appointed
director
2000-06-26
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WILLIAMSON, Larry appointed
director
2000-06-26
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ANDERSON, John David appointed
director
2000-06-26
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HUTCHISON, David Kay appointed
director
2000-06-20
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2000-06-02
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Company incorporated
As CHARISMA HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED
2000-06-02
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HENDERSON, Hazel Jane appointed
secretary
2000-06-02
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-06-02
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-06-02
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SIMPSON, Richard Harald appointed
director
2000-06-02
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SMITH, Wills Martin appointed
director

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

2 director resignations in last 12 months

medium

Multiple recent departures can indicate governance disagreement, succession event, or preparation for sale/stress.

Evidence: HENDERSON, Hazel Jane resigned 2025-05-30; HUTCHISON, David Kay resigned 2025-12-11

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-06-02

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03110 — SIC 03110

Registered office

Mair's Quay

Holmsgarth

Lerwick

Shetland

ZE1 0PW

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-16

Last: 2025-06-02