HIGHLAND MOTOR PARTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC228871 · ltd · incorporated 2002-03-07
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 22.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 22.9y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.9 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.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
12 officers (3 active, 12 linked, 7 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £3,347,906

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Profit before tax£3.35M£3.16M
Average employees757100

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-28
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  3. 2024-03-27
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  4. 2023-03-29
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  5. 2022-07-20
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  6. 2022-07-01
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    MACLELLAN, Robert appointed
    director
  7. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-07
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  9. 2022-01-17
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    MACSPORRAN, David resigned
    secretary
  10. 2021-03-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  11. 2020-03-24
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  12. 2019-02-18
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  13. 2018-02-07
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  14. 2017-03-27
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  15. 2016-03-19
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  16. 2016-02-04
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  17. 2016-01-06
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  18. 2015-04-10
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    COOPER, David appointed
    director
  19. 2015-04-10
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    MACSPORRAN, David appointed
    secretary
  20. 2015-04-10
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    MILTON, Christine Mary resigned
    secretary
  21. 2015-04-09
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    MCGAVIN, Philip resigned
    director
  22. 2009-12-31
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    MACKENZIE, David Alexander resigned
    director
  23. 2003-06-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  24. 2003-03-26
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    MACKENZIE, David Alexander resigned
    secretary
  25. 2003-03-26
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    MILTON, Christine Mary appointed
    secretary
  26. 2003-03-26
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, David Alexander appointed
    director
  27. 2003-03-26
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    MACSPORRAN, David John resigned
    director
  28. 2003-03-26
    ➕
    MCGAVIN, Philip appointed
    director
  29. 2003-03-26
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    MILTON, Christine Mary resigned
    director
  30. 2002-03-07
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    Company incorporated
    As HIGHLAND MOTOR PARTS LIMITED
  31. 2002-03-07
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    MACLELLAN, Donald Mackay appointed
    director
  32. 2002-03-07
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, David Alexander appointed
    secretary
  33. 2002-03-07
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 2002-03-07
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  35. 2002-03-07
    ➕
    MACSPORRAN, David John appointed
    director
  36. 2002-03-07
    ➕
    MILTON, Christine Mary appointed
    director
  37. 2002-03-07
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  38. 2002-03-07
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED 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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

40/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — MACLELLAN, Robert (same surname) appointed 2022-07-01. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Donald Mackay Maclellan
Individual · British · DOB 11/1962 · age 64
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting06/04/2016

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

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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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-03-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC45320 — Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Registered office

Mackenzie Kerr, C.A., Redwood
19 Culduthel Road
Inverness
IV2 4AA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-21
Last: 2026-03-07

Officers (3 active · 9 resigned)

COOPER, David→
director · ~58y · appointed 2015-04-10
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Active
MACLELLAN, Donald Mackay→
director · ~64y · appointed 2002-03-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACLELLAN, Robert→
director · ~36y · appointed 2022-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACKENZIE, David Alexander→
secretary · appointed 2002-03-07 · resigned 2003-03-26
Resigned
MACSPORRAN, David→
secretary · appointed 2015-04-10 · resigned 2022-01-17
Resigned
MILTON, Christine Mary→
secretary · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2015-04-10
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-03-07 · resigned 2002-03-07
Resigned
MACKENZIE, David Alexander→
director · ~74y · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2009-12-31
Resigned
MACSPORRAN, David John→
director · ~60y · appointed 2002-03-07 · resigned 2003-03-26
Resigned
MCGAVIN, Philip→
director · ~74y · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2015-04-09
Resigned
MILTON, Christine Mary→
director · ~79y · appointed 2002-03-07 · resigned 2003-03-26
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-03-07 · resigned 2002-03-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property06/06/2003—
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Recent filings (74 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-07
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-07
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-03-24