COILCRAFT EUROPE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC209057 · ltd · incorporated 2000-07-12
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
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£21.38M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26110
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
9 officers (2 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
80 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £21,384,465
Cash YoY
-26%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£4.5m
↓ 26% YoY
Net Worth
£21m
↑ 9.6% YoY
Current Assets
£27m
↓ 12% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£6.0m£12m£18m£24m£30mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£21.38M£19.51M
Current assets£26.72M£30.22M
Cash£4.53M£6.16M
Debtors£9.31M£10.69M
Net assets£21.38M£19.51M

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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-04
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2023-02-06
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    GENTLEMAN, Thomas Anthony resigned
    director
  6. 2022-05-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-01-18
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    ROBERTS, Richard James resigned
    secretary
  12. 2018-01-18
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  13. 2017-07-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  14. 2017-07-12
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    withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  15. 2017-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-10-13
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    ROBERTS, Richard James appointed
    secretary
  17. 2016-10-13
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  18. 2016-10-13
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  19. 2016-09-29
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    MCLAUGHLIN, Daniel resigned
    secretary
  20. 2016-07-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2007-11-05
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    MCLAUGHLIN, Daniel appointed
    secretary
  22. 2007-11-05
    ➖
    ROBERTS, Richard James resigned
    secretary
  23. 2007-01-31
    ➖
    BLYTH, John Kemp resigned
    director
  24. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    LIEBMAN, Thomas Charles appointed
    director
  25. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    ROBERTS, Richard James appointed
    director
  26. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    ROBERTS, Richard James appointed
    secretary
  27. 2000-08-09
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    BLYTH, John Kemp appointed
    director
  29. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    GENTLEMAN, Thomas Anthony appointed
    director
  30. 2000-08-09
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  31. 2000-07-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As COILCRAFT EUROPE LIMITED
  32. 2000-07-12
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 2000-07-12
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 70 — succession pressure is live.

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 70 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-07-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC26110 — SIC 26110

Registered office

21 Napier Place
Wardpark North, Cumbernauld
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
G68 0LL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-26
Last: 2025-07-12

Officers (2 active · 7 resigned)

LIEBMAN, Thomas Charles→
director · ~70y · appointed 2000-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROBERTS, Richard James→
director · ~66y · appointed 2000-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCLAUGHLIN, Daniel→
secretary · appointed 2007-11-05 · resigned 2016-09-29
Resigned
ROBERTS, Richard James→
secretary · appointed 2016-10-13 · resigned 2018-01-18
Resigned
ROBERTS, Richard James→
secretary · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2007-11-05
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-07-12 · resigned 2000-08-09
Resigned
BLYTH, John Kemp→
director · ~85y · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2007-01-31
Resigned
GENTLEMAN, Thomas Anthony→
director · ~88y · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2023-02-06
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-07-12 · resigned 2000-08-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-24