HURRICANE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC218261 · ltd · incorporated 2001-04-20

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.

· Bankability: 80 → 85

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 6.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

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

↑Bankability: 80 → 85

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 Aug 2025

Net worth

£101.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other telecommunications activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 6.2y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 6.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

65 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £101,204

Net assets shrinking

Down £14,826 YoY

Cash YoY

+34%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£30k

↑ 34% YoY

Net Worth

£101k

↓ 13% YoY

Current Assets

£160k

↓ 8.1% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Total assets	£101.3k	£119.2k
Current assets	£159.9k	£174.1k
Cash	£30.2k	£22.5k
Debtors	£128.4k	£149.2k
Net assets	£101.2k	£116.0k

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 mortgage

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-06-01
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2026-06-01
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Charge satisfied #1
2026-04-13
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accounts · AA
2025-04-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-08-12
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-05-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-24
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mortgage · MR01
2020-04-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-20
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2019-02-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-05-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-05-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-04-28
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annual-return · AR01
2002-11-27
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SCOTT, Garry appointed
director
2001-04-20
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Company incorporated
As HURRICANE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
2001-04-20
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SCOTT, Garry appointed
secretary
2001-04-20
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STEWART, Alexandra appointed
director
2001-04-20
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-04-20
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-04-20
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2001-04-20
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Alexandra Stewart Individual · British · DOB 02/1968 · age 58	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Garry Scott Individual · British · DOB 02/1964 · age 62	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2001-04-20

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC61900 — Other telecommunications activities

Registered office

Arran House Business Centre

Arran Road

Perth

PH1 3DZ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-04

Last: 2026-04-20

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SCOTT, Garry→

secretary · appointed 2001-04-20

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Active

SCOTT, Garry→

director · ~62y · appointed 2002-11-27

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Active

STEWART, Alexandra→

director · ~58y · appointed 2001-04-20

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Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-04-20 · resigned 2001-04-20

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-04-20 · resigned 2001-04-20

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC	A registered charge	—	20/04/2020	01/06/2026

Recent filings (65 total)

mortgage-satisfy-charge-full

mortgage · MR04

2026-06-01

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-04-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-04-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-21

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-25

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-03-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-04-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-21

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2022-08-12

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-08-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-05-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-21

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-04-20

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-03-09