JACK'S OF LANARK LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC256676 · ltd · incorporated 2003-09-27
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
£496.0k
year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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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 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
62 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
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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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
Turnover£496.0k—
Average employees700700

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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-26
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  3. 2023-06-23
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  4. 2022-06-20
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  5. 2021-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-06-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-01-22
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    address · AD01
  9. 2018-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-11-28
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    officers · TM02
  11. 2017-11-15
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    AITKEN, Irene resigned
    secretary
  12. 2017-06-29
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-06-20
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-10-23
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-06-25
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-11-06
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2003-10-02
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    MACMILLAN, Douglas Calum appointed
    director
  18. 2003-10-02
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    MACMILLAN, Douglas appointed
    director
  19. 2003-10-02
    ➕
    AITKEN, Irene appointed
    secretary
  20. 2003-10-02
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2003-10-02
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 2003-09-27
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    Company incorporated
    As JACK'S OF LANARK LTD.
  23. 2003-09-27
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2003-09-27
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    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 80 — 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 80 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 Douglas Macmillan
Individual · British · DOB 03/1946 · age 80
50–75%
—50-75% shares27/09/2016
Mr Douglas Calum Macmillan
Individual · British · DOB 01/1975 · age 51
25–50%
—25-50% shares27/09/2016

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
Incorporated2003-09-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47190 — Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

Registered office

The Mechanics Workshop
New Lanark
Lanark
ML11 9DB
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-11
Last: 2025-09-27

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

MACMILLAN, Douglas Calum→
director · ~51y · appointed 2003-10-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACMILLAN, Douglas→
director · ~80y · appointed 2003-10-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
AITKEN, Irene→
secretary · appointed 2003-10-02 · resigned 2017-11-15
Resigned
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-09-27 · resigned 2003-10-02
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-09-27 · resigned 2003-10-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-08
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accounts · AA
2025-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-06-10
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2019-01-22