MITCHELL'S GLENGYLE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC211312 · ltd · incorporated 2000-09-25

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 15.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2023

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 11010

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 90). 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 15.9y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 15.9 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 (73/100)

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

12 officers (8 active, 12 linked, 8 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

82 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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	2023-07-31
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

4 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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand

2025-12-02
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2024-03-19
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2023-08-23
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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2023-08-22
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officers · TM01
2023-08-21
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FAWCETT, Hannah appointed
director
2023-08-21
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KELLY, Stephen appointed
director
2023-08-21
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MCAULAY, Linda appointed
director
2023-08-21
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REDPATH, George Christopher appointed
director
2023-08-21
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ROSS, Findlay Thomas appointed
director
2023-08-21
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WATSON, Ranald James appointed
director
2023-08-05
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WRIGHT, Hedley Gordon resigned
director
2023-03-03
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2022-03-08
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2021-03-23
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2020-03-26
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2019-02-21
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2018-02-02
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2010-06-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2004-10-01
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CAMPBELL, Stuart Alexander appointed
secretary
2004-10-01
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C & D MACTAGGART resigned
corporate-secretary
2000-11-17
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CLAPPERTON, Neil appointed
director
2000-11-17
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C & D MACTAGGART appointed
corporate-secretary
2000-11-17
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-11-17
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WRIGHT, Hedley Gordon appointed
director
2000-11-17
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2000-09-25
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Company incorporated
As MITCHELL'S GLENGYLE LIMITED
2000-09-25
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
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2000-09-25
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
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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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — 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 90 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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MITCHELL'S GLENGYLE LIMITED

This company · SC211312

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
J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-09-25

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC11010 — SIC 11010

Registered office

Springbank Distillery, Well

Close, Campbeltown

Argyll

PA28 6ET

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-04-30

Last made up to: 2024-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-16

Last: 2025-12-02