BLYTH & BLYTH CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
SC241155 · ltd · incorporated 2002-12-16
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 23.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 85). 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 (85/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 23.3y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.3 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: high (82/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 7 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
135 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
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 · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £795,207

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Profit before tax£795.2k£650.6k
Average employees938900

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-22
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  2. 2025-01-16
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  3. 2024-08-21
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  4. 2024-01-25
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  5. 2023-09-07
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  6. 2022-08-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
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  7. 2021-09-02
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  8. 2021-08-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-08-13
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    capital · SH03
  10. 2021-06-07
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  11. 2021-06-07
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    capital · SH03
  12. 2021-06-03
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  13. 2021-04-16
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  14. 2021-03-02
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    capital-cancellation-shares
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  15. 2021-03-02
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  16. 2021-02-16
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  17. 2021-01-20
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  18. 2020-12-11
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  19. 2020-12-11
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    capital · SH03
  20. 2019-08-09
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    PILE, Michael Geoffrey resigned
    director
  21. 2017-12-29
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    MERCER, Brian William resigned
    secretary
  22. 2017-12-29
    ➖
    MERCER, Brian William resigned
    director
  23. 2005-06-03
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    PILE, Michael Geoffrey appointed
    director
  24. 2004-03-18
    ➖
    INGLIS, Anthony Raymond resigned
    director
  25. 2003-09-30
    ➖
    TOTTON, James resigned
    director
  26. 2003-09-01
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    INGLIS, Anthony Raymond appointed
    director
  27. 2003-06-09
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    NEVILLE, Thomas Douglas resigned
    director
  28. 2003-01-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  29. 2002-12-30
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    HORNER, Michael John appointed
    director
  30. 2002-12-30
    ➕
    NEVILLE, Thomas Douglas appointed
    director
  31. 2002-12-30
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    TOTTON, James appointed
    director
  32. 2002-12-16
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    Company incorporated
    As BLYTH & BLYTH CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIMITED
  33. 2002-12-16
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    HENDERSON, William Shields appointed
    director
  34. 2002-12-16
    ➕
    MERCER, Brian William appointed
    secretary
  35. 2002-12-16
    ➕
    MERCER, Brian William appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.

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 85 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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 Michael John Horner
Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
Mr William Shields Henderson
Individual · British · DOB 12/1941 · age 85
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Michael Geoffrey Pileceased 09/08/2019· significant influence
  • Mr Brian William Mercerceased 29/12/2017· significant influence

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

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7 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
Incorporated2002-12-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Cornerstone
60 South Gyle Crescent
Edinburgh
EH12 9EB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-24
Last: 2025-12-10

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

HENDERSON, William Shields→
director · ~85y · appointed 2002-12-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HORNER, Michael John→
director · ~63y · appointed 2002-12-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MERCER, Brian William→
secretary · appointed 2002-12-16 · resigned 2017-12-29
Resigned
INGLIS, Anthony Raymond→
director · ~75y · appointed 2003-09-01 · resigned 2004-03-18
Resigned
MERCER, Brian William→
director · ~73y · appointed 2002-12-16 · resigned 2017-12-29
Resigned
NEVILLE, Thomas Douglas→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-12-30 · resigned 2003-06-09
Resigned
PILE, Michael Geoffrey→
director · ~64y · appointed 2005-06-03 · resigned 2019-08-09
Resigned
TOTTON, James→
director · ~62y · appointed 2002-12-30 · resigned 2003-09-30
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
Floating charge1 property15/01/2003—
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Recent filings (135 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-22
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2025-01-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-21
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2024-01-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-17
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2021-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-19
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2021-08-13
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2021-06-07