ZEOTEK INTERNATIONAL LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC229717 · ltd · incorporated 2002-03-28
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26110
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 73120Media representation services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
69 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees200200

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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-11-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-11-19
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  7. 2020-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-09-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2020-09-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2020-09-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2020-09-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2020-09-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2019-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-04-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-03-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-09-22
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    SMITH, Simon Nigel appointed
    director
  17. 2010-05-11
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    SMITH, Denise resigned
    secretary
  18. 2002-04-04
    ➕
    SMITH, Nigel appointed
    director
  19. 2002-04-04
    ➖
    PELLATT, Annie Teresa resigned
    secretary
  20. 2002-04-04
    ➕
    SMITH, Denise appointed
    secretary
  21. 2002-04-04
    ➖
    PELLATT, James Michael resigned
    director
  22. 2002-03-28
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    Company incorporated
    As ZEOTEK INTERNATIONAL LTD.
  23. 2002-03-28
    ➕
    PELLATT, Annie Teresa appointed
    secretary
  24. 2002-03-28
    ➕
    PELLATT, James Michael appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Simon Nigel Smith
Individual · British · DOB 04/1985 · age 41
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting29/07/2020
Mr Nigel Smith
Individual · British · DOB 10/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting28/03/2017

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
Incorporated2002-03-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC26110 — SIC 26110

Registered office

Summit House
4-5 Mitchell Street
Edinburgh
EH6 7BD
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-18
Last: 2025-09-04

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

SMITH, Nigel→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-04-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Simon Nigel→
director · ~41y · appointed 2015-09-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PELLATT, Annie Teresa→
secretary · appointed 2002-03-28 · resigned 2002-04-04
Resigned
SMITH, Denise→
secretary · appointed 2002-04-04 · resigned 2010-05-11
Resigned
PELLATT, James Michael→
director · ~81y · appointed 2002-03-28 · resigned 2002-04-04
Resigned

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Recent filings (69 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-14
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2020-11-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-09-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-16