LINIAN SUPPLY CO. LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC246119 · ltd · incorporated 2003-03-20
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 7.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 7.5y

80/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
70 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 £225,619

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Profit before tax£225.6k—
Average employees14001400

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-20
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  2. 2025-11-12
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  3. 2025-07-02
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  4. 2025-01-21
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-11-05
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    mortgage · MR04
  6. 2024-11-05
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    Charge satisfied #1
  7. 2024-06-12
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    gazette · DISS40
  8. 2024-06-11
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    gazette · GAZ1
  9. 2023-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  10. 2023-04-26
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  11. 2021-12-16
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  12. 2021-12-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Ultimate Finance Limited
  13. 2021-09-10
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-06-15
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  15. 2020-07-09
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  16. 2020-05-07
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  17. 2019-06-26
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-04-11
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    capital · SH08
  19. 2019-04-11
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  20. 2019-04-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  21. 2019-04-04
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    ARBUCKLE, Ian Wesley appointed
    director
  22. 2019-04-04
    ➕
    JHANGEER, Lynne appointed
    director
  23. 2018-11-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Business Loans Scotland
  24. 2003-03-20
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    Company incorporated
    As LINIAN SUPPLY CO. LIMITED
  25. 2003-03-20
    ➕
    ARBUCKLE, Jean appointed
    secretary
  26. 2003-03-20
    ➕
    ARBUCKLE, Jean appointed
    director
  27. 2003-03-20
    ➕
    ARBUCKLE, Wesley appointed
    director
  28. 2003-03-20
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 2003-03-20
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

73/100
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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.)
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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-03-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

34-38 Payne Street
Port Dundas Trading Estate
Glasgow
G4 0LF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-03
Last: 2026-03-20

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

ARBUCKLE, Jean→
secretary · appointed 2003-03-20
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Active
ARBUCKLE, Ian Wesley→
director · ~40y · appointed 2019-04-04
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Active
ARBUCKLE, Jean→
director · ~65y · appointed 2003-03-20
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Active
ARBUCKLE, Wesley→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-03-20
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Active
JHANGEER, Lynne→
director · ~42y · appointed 2019-04-04
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-03-20 · resigned 2003-03-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Ultimate Finance
Ultimate Finance Limited
A registered charge1 property16/12/2021—
satisfied
Business Loans Scotland
A registered charge1 property28/11/201805/11/2024
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Recent filings (70 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-24
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2025-11-20
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-21
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-11-05
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2024-06-12
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2024-06-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-07
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-12-16