RESCU SOLUTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC255949 · ltd · incorporated 2003-09-16
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
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
64 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
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£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 employees400300

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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  2. 2025-09-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  3. 2025-09-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  4. 2025-09-02
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  5. 2025-09-02
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  6. 2025-09-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2025-09-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2025-09-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  9. 2025-06-11
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  10. 2025-06-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  11. 2025-06-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2024-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2024-01-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2022-12-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-10-02
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2019-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2008-08-14
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    DAVIDSON, Robert Sturgeon resigned
    director
  20. 2007-02-25
    ➕
    DAVIDSON, Robert Sturgeon appointed
    director
  21. 2003-09-16
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As RESCU SOLUTIONS LIMITED
  22. 2003-09-16
    ➕
    REID, Douglas William appointed
    secretary
  23. 2003-09-16
    ➕
    ELLIS, Robert Norman appointed
    director
  24. 2003-09-16
    ➕
    REID, Douglas William appointed
    director
  25. 2003-09-16
    ➕
    FIRSTSCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2003-09-16
    ➖
    FIRSTSCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  27. 2003-09-16
    ➕
    FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  28. 2003-09-16
    ➖
    FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

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 64. 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Douglas Reid Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Rn Ellis Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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RESCU SOLUTIONS LIMITED
This company · SC255949

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Douglas Reid Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Rn Ellis Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-09-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Dains Accountants
44-46 Bank Street
Kilmarnock
Ayrshire
KA1 1HA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last: 2025-09-16

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

REID, Douglas William→
secretary · appointed 2003-09-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ELLIS, Robert Norman→
director · ~64y · appointed 2003-09-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REID, Douglas William→
director · ~63y · appointed 2003-09-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FIRSTSCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2003-09-16 · resigned 2003-09-16
Resigned
DAVIDSON, Robert Sturgeon→
director · ~57y · appointed 2007-02-25 · resigned 2008-08-14
Resigned
FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2003-09-16 · resigned 2003-09-16
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-09-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-09-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-09-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-02
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-09-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-09-02
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-06-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-06-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-25