JJD RETAIL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC248733 · ltd · incorporated 2003-05-01

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

61 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	500	400

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-12-02
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2024-10-26
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2023-11-27
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accounts · AA
2022-12-02
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accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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accounts · AA
2020-10-12
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accounts · AA
2019-09-20
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accounts · AA
2018-11-17
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accounts · AA
2017-12-15
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accounts · AA
2016-10-26
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officers · CH01
2016-10-26
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officers · CH01
2016-10-26
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2016-10-26
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address · AD01
2016-10-06
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accounts · AA
2016-05-03
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2015-09-16
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accounts · AA
2013-09-25
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JOHNSTON, John resigned
director
2003-05-01
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Company incorporated
As JJD RETAIL LIMITED
2003-05-01
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JOHNSTON, Jeanette appointed
secretary
2003-05-01
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JOHNSTON, Jeanette appointed
director
2003-05-01
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PAXTON, Deborah Greer appointed
director
2003-05-01
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-05-01
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-05-01
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JOHNSTON, John 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 82 — 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 82 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Deborah Greer Paxton Individual · British · DOB 01/1970 · age 56	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Jeanette Johnston Individual · British · DOB 10/1944 · age 82	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2003-05-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47190 — Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

Registered office

Unit 4b Gateway Business Park, Beancross Road

Grangemouth

FK3 8WX

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-15

Last: 2025-05-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

JOHNSTON, Jeanette→

secretary · appointed 2003-05-01

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Active

JOHNSTON, Jeanette→

director · ~82y · appointed 2003-05-01

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Active

PAXTON, Deborah Greer→

director · ~56y · appointed 2003-05-01

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-05-01 · resigned 2003-05-01

Resigned

JOHNSTON, John→

director · ~83y · appointed 2003-05-01 · resigned 2013-09-25

Resigned

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