CASTLETON HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC246219 · ltd · incorporated 2003-03-21
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 23.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 23.1y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
62 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.

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£71k£143k£214k£285k£357kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets—£299.5k
Current assets—£356.6k
Cash—£315.0k
Debtors—£41.6k
Net assets—£299.5k
Average employees0—

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-26
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2026-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-11-24
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  7. 2022-11-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  8. 2022-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-01-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-03-27
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  14. 2017-03-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2017-03-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2016-11-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2008-05-19
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  18. 2003-05-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  19. 2003-04-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  20. 2003-03-21
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    Company incorporated
    As CASTLETON HOLDINGS LIMITED
  21. 2003-03-21
    ➕
    KLINEBERG, Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-03-21
    ➕
    KLINEBERG, David Francis appointed
    director
  23. 2003-03-21
    ➕
    KLINEBERG, Elizabeth appointed
    director
  24. 2003-03-21
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2003-03-21
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2003-03-21
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2003-03-21
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — 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 76 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 David Francis Klineberg
Individual · British · DOB 06/1950 · age 76
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Elizabeth Klineberg
Individual · British · DOB 09/1951 · age 75
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-03-21
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Kings Inch Place
Renfrew
PA4 8WF
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-04
Last: 2026-03-21

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

KLINEBERG, Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2003-03-21
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Active
KLINEBERG, David Francis→
director · ~76y · appointed 2003-03-21
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Active
KLINEBERG, Elizabeth→
director · ~75y · appointed 2003-03-21
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-03-21 · resigned 2003-03-21
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-03-21 · resigned 2003-03-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Standard security1 property19/05/2008—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property30/05/2003—
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property18/04/200324/11/2022
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Recent filings (62 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-03
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-24