GLENABBY ROOFING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC264922 · ltd · incorporated 2004-03-15
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 21.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Roofing activities
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 21.8y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 21.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
70 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£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2024Nov 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-11-302024-11-30
Average employees800—

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-03-16
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  3. 2025-04-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  4. 2025-04-18
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    officers · AP01
  5. 2025-03-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2025-02-17
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    WOOD, Abby appointed
    director
  7. 2025-02-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-01-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-02-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-10-13
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-08-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-03-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  15. 2019-03-19
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  16. 2019-02-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  17. 2019-01-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2018-09-28
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    GLEN, Angela Mary resigned
    director
  19. 2018-05-31
    ➕
    WOOD, Abby Mary-Anne appointed
    secretary
  20. 2018-05-31
    ➖
    GLEN, Angela Mary resigned
    secretary
  21. 2018-05-31
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  22. 2004-07-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  23. 2004-03-15
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    Company incorporated
    As GLENABBY ROOFING LIMITED
  24. 2004-03-15
    ➕
    GLEN, Graham appointed
    director
  25. 2004-03-15
    ➕
    GLEN, Angela Mary appointed
    secretary
  26. 2004-03-15
    ➕
    GLEN, Angela Mary appointed
    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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "GLEN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
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 63. 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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
Mrs Abby Wood
Individual · British · DOB 08/1988 · age 38
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting17/02/2025
Mr Graham Glen
Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Angela Mary Glenceased 28/09/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2004-03-15
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43910 — Roofing activities

Registered office

1a Bank Place
Kilmarnock
KA1 1HJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-08-31
Last made up to: 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-29
Last: 2026-03-15

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WOOD, Abby Mary-Anne→
secretary · appointed 2018-05-31
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Active
GLEN, Graham→
director · ~63y · appointed 2004-03-15
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Active
WOOD, Abby→
director · ~38y · appointed 2025-02-17
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Active
GLEN, Angela Mary→
secretary · appointed 2004-03-15 · resigned 2018-05-31
Resigned
GLEN, Angela Mary→
director · ~60y · appointed 2004-03-15 · resigned 2018-09-28
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property04/07/2004—
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Recent filings (70 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-18
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-03-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-18
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-04-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-18
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-15