ROUCAN LOCH CREMATORIUM COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC252072 · ltd · incorporated 2003-07-01
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 21.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Funeral and related activities
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 21.2y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 21.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
69 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees900900

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
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Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-08-13
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    mortgage · MR04
  3. 2024-08-13
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    Charge satisfied #1
  4. 2024-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-06-28
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  6. 2022-09-13
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  7. 2022-09-13
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  8. 2022-06-28
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  9. 2021-07-13
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  10. 2021-07-13
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  11. 2021-07-13
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  12. 2021-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-09-24
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2020-09-24
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  15. 2020-09-24
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  16. 2020-09-24
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2020-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-06-25
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  19. 2005-02-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2003-07-01
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    Company incorporated
    As ROUCAN LOCH CREMATORIUM COMPANY LIMITED
  21. 2003-07-01
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    JARDINE, Mark Arthur James appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-07-01
    ➕
    CUNNINGHAM-JARDINE, John Charles appointed
    director
  23. 2003-07-01
    ➕
    JARDINE, Mark Arthur James appointed
    director
  24. 2003-07-01
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2003-07-01
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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 Mark Arthur James Jardine
Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/06/2016
Mr John Charles Cunningham-Jardine
Individual · British · DOB 11/1961 · age 65
——sig. influencesignificant influence30/06/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Arthur Henry Gloucester Jardineceased 08/08/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence

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
Incorporated2003-07-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC96030 — Funeral and related activities

Registered office

123 Irish Street
Dumfries
DG1 2PE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-27
Last: 2025-09-13

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

JARDINE, Mark Arthur James→
secretary · appointed 2003-07-01
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Active
CUNNINGHAM-JARDINE, John Charles→
director · ~65y · appointed 2003-07-01
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Active
JARDINE, Mark Arthur James→
director · ~65y · appointed 2003-07-01
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-07-01 · resigned 2003-07-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
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Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property14/02/200513/08/2024

Recent filings (69 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-25
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-08-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-13
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-07-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-07-13