BLAIRGOWRIE FRUIT PACKERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC225871 · ltd · incorporated 2001-11-30
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 24.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10390
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.1y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Average employees800300

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-29
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-13
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    officers · AP01
  3. 2025-02-01
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    BARRIE, William Andrew appointed
    director
  4. 2024-08-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-08-28
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  6. 2023-03-21
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    officers · TM01
  7. 2023-03-10
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    WERNSEN, Reinier resigned
    director
  8. 2022-08-31
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-11-23
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  10. 2020-11-30
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2019-11-20
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    WERNSEN, Reinier appointed
    director
  13. 2019-08-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-08-29
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  15. 2017-05-16
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-10-21
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    accounts · AA01
  17. 2016-06-08
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  18. 2015-12-02
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  19. 2014-01-10
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  20. 2002-07-11
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  21. 2002-03-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  22. 2001-11-30
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    Company incorporated
    As BLAIRGOWRIE FRUIT PACKERS LIMITED
  23. 2001-11-30
    ➕
    THOMSON, Thomas Peter Mackie appointed
    secretary
  24. 2001-11-30
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    CORRIGAL, Harold appointed
    director
  25. 2001-11-30
    ➕
    MCINTYRE, David Euan appointed
    director
  26. 2001-11-30
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    THOMSON, Thomas Peter Mackie appointed
    director

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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — 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 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Thomas Peter Mackie Thomson
Individual · British · DOB 02/1955 · age 71
75–100%
—75-100% shares01/07/2016

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
Incorporated2001-11-30
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10390 — SIC 10390

Registered office

Bramblebank Works
Blairgowrie
Perthsire
PH10 7HY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

THOMSON, Thomas Peter Mackie→
secretary · appointed 2001-11-30
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Active
BARRIE, William Andrew→
director · ~61y · appointed 2025-02-01
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Active
CORRIGAL, Harold→
director · ~81y · appointed 2001-11-30
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Active
MCINTYRE, David Euan→
director · ~70y · appointed 2001-11-30
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Active
THOMSON, Thomas Peter Mackie→
director · ~71y · appointed 2001-11-30
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Active
WERNSEN, Reinier→
director · ~51y · appointed 2019-11-20 · resigned 2023-03-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property10/01/2014—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property11/07/2002—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property28/03/2002—
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Recent filings (59 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-13
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-28
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-09