TRAVELINE SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC210532 · ltd · incorporated 2000-08-31

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.

Why now

Window closing · medium confidence

Getting harder to buy cheaply — 1 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.

· Lifecycle stage: declining → mature

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

↑Lifecycle stage: declining → mature

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Web portals

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: conservative operator with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (88/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (88/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

48 officers (7 active, 48 linked, 43 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

12 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

172 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £27,432

Turned profitable

Returned to profit this year

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	£27.4k	£-28.1k	£11.0k
Average employees	3	300	300

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

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (110 events)Click to expand

2026-05-01
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accounts · AA
2026-04-23
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CULLEN, Andrew Charles appointed
director
2026-04-23
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officers · AP01
2026-04-08
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officers · TM01
2026-03-27
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CAMERON, Duncan Young resigned
director
2025-05-27
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officers · AP01
2025-05-27
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-05-23
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SMITH, Fraser Gordon appointed
director
2025-05-23
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ROBERTSON, Douglas resigned
director
2025-05-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-24
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-09-23
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LOCKHART, Stuart John appointed
secretary
2024-09-23
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MILNE, Michael Mckenzie resigned
secretary
2024-09-23
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officers · AP03
2024-08-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-27
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GREER, Samuel Derek resigned
director
2023-07-27
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ROBERTSON, Douglas appointed
director
2023-07-27
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-07-27
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-07-14
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address · AD01
2022-10-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-26
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-26
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-26
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-26
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-23
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CHAMBERS, Steven Gary appointed
director
2022-09-23
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CAMERON, Duncan Young appointed
director
2022-09-23
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JARVIS, Andrew Simon resigned
director
2022-09-23
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SERAFINI, Nigel Murray resigned
director
2021-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23
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officers · AP01
2020-12-14
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HALL, Richard John resigned
director
2020-12-14
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SERAFINI, Nigel Murray appointed
director
2020-07-08
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ANDREW, Robert Gervase resigned
director
2020-07-08
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GREER, Samuel Derek appointed
director
2020-02-24
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MCGREGOR, Karen resigned
director
2018-04-26
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STEWART, Eric Campbell resigned
director
2017-12-20
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DORCHESTER, Martin resigned
director
2017-12-20
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MCGREGOR, Karen appointed
director
2017-12-06
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BRADLEY, Desmond appointed
director
2017-12-06
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MCCONNELL, Ian Matthew resigned
director
2017-06-07
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JARVIS, Andrew Simon appointed
director
2016-09-12
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KERR, Fiona Mclaren resigned
director
2016-06-08
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ANDREW, Robert Gervase appointed
director
2016-06-08
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GREER, Samuel Derek resigned
director
2016-06-08
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HALL, Richard John appointed
director
2016-06-08
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MCCONNELL, Ian Matthew appointed
director
2015-12-31
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CRAIG, William Ian Gold resigned
director
2014-10-09
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MACFARLAN, Graeme Kenneth resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 110 events

Owner dependency

58/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️

First Glasgow (No.1) Limited

Corporate parent

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Stagecoach Group Plc

Corporate parent

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TRAVELINE SCOTLAND LIMITED

This company · SC210532

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
First Glasgow (No.1) Limited Corporate entity	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Stagecoach Group Plc Corporate entity	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-08-31

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC63120 — Web portals

Registered office

2 Marischal Square

Broad Street

Aberdeen

AB10 1DQ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-14

Last: 2025-08-31