GRAMPIAN PLANT AND MACHINERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC238020 · ltd · incorporated 2002-10-11
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 19.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£489.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Agents specialised in the sale of other particular products
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.0 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.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
60 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £489,046
Cash YoY
+10%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£906k
↑ 10% YoY
Net Worth
£489k
↑ 15% YoY
Current Assets
£1.1m
↑ 21% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£218k£436k£654k£873k£1.1mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£517.7k£446.6k
Current assets£1.09M£898.0k
Cash£906.2k£821.1k
Debtors£182.4k£69.4k
Net assets£489.0k£425.5k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-16
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  2. 2024-12-12
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  3. 2023-11-28
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  4. 2022-11-30
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  5. 2021-12-16
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  6. 2020-12-03
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  7. 2019-06-27
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  8. 2018-11-15
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  9. 2018-11-15
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  10. 2017-10-17
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  11. 2017-01-23
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  12. 2016-01-28
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  13. 2015-11-02
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  14. 2014-10-28
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  15. 2014-10-13
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  16. 2007-04-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2007-04-02
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    ARGO, Anne Ferguson appointed
    secretary
  18. 2007-04-02
    ➕
    ARGO, Anne Ferguson appointed
    director
  19. 2007-04-02
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    AG ACCOUNTING resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2002-10-15
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    ARGO, Maxwell Morris Keigwin appointed
    director
  21. 2002-10-15
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    AG ACCOUNTING appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2002-10-15
    ➖
    PF & S (SECRETARIES) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2002-10-15
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    PF & S (DIRECTORS) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  24. 2002-10-11
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    Company incorporated
    As GRAMPIAN PLANT AND MACHINERY LIMITED
  25. 2002-10-11
    ➕
    PF & S (SECRETARIES) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2002-10-11
    ➕
    PF & S (DIRECTORS) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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 72 — 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 72 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
Mrs Anne Ferguson Argo
Individual · British · DOB 08/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Maxwell Morris Keigwin Argo
Individual · British · DOB 03/1954 · age 72
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2002-10-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46180 — Agents specialised in the sale of other particular products

Registered office

Moss Side Of Arthrath
Auchleuchries
Ellon
Aberdeenshire
AB41 8EF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last: 2025-09-16

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

ARGO, Anne Ferguson→
secretary · appointed 2007-04-02
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Active
ARGO, Anne Ferguson→
director · ~67y · appointed 2007-04-02
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Active
ARGO, Maxwell Morris Keigwin→
director · ~72y · appointed 2002-10-15
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Active
AG ACCOUNTING→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2002-10-15 · resigned 2007-04-02
Resigned
PF & S (SECRETARIES) LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2002-10-11 · resigned 2002-10-15
Resigned
PF & S (DIRECTORS) LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2002-10-11 · resigned 2002-10-15
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 Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property27/04/2007—
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Recent filings (60 total)

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2025-12-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2024-12-12
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-20
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accounts · AA
2021-12-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-03
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-19
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-27
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2018-11-15