LOANHEAD TRANSPORT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC213984 · ltd · incorporated 2000-12-19

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2024

Net worth

£100

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

17 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

61 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 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £100

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£100

~ YoY

Current Assets

£100

~ YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Total assets	£100	£100
Current assets	£100	£100
Net assets	£100	£100

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-07-07
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2023-07-25
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2022-05-26
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2021-04-20
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2020-05-05
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2019-06-10
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2018-06-19
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2017-06-08
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2016-06-27
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2015-12-23
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2015-06-12
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accounts · AA
2014-12-22
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2014-06-03
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2014-01-09
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2001-02-05
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STEWART, Charles Roderick appointed
secretary
2001-02-05
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MALCOLM, Andrew Buchanan appointed
director
2001-02-05
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MALCOLM, Walter Hattrick appointed
director
2001-02-05
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STEWART, Charles Roderick appointed
director
2001-02-05
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BURNESS resigned
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2001-02-05
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BURNESS (DIRECTORS) LIMITED resigned
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2000-12-19
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Company incorporated
As LOANHEAD TRANSPORT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
2000-12-19
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BURNESS appointed
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2000-12-19
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BURNESS (DIRECTORS) LIMITED appointed
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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

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Andrew Buchanan Malcolm Individual · British · DOB 01/1962 · age 64	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/07/2016

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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7 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

Incorporated2000-12-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Brookfield House

2 Burnbrae Drive

Linwood Industrial Estate

Linwood, Renfrewshire,

PA3 3BU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-18

Last: 2025-12-04

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

STEWART, Charles Roderick→

secretary · appointed 2001-02-05

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Active

MALCOLM, Andrew Buchanan→

director · ~64y · appointed 2001-02-05

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Active

MALCOLM, Walter Hattrick→

director · ~66y · appointed 2001-02-05

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Active

STEWART, Charles Roderick→

director · ~73y · appointed 2001-02-05

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Active

BURNESS→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-12-19 · resigned 2001-02-05

Resigned

BURNESS (DIRECTORS) LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-12-19 · resigned 2001-02-05

Resigned

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