PRO EQUINE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC274322 · ltd · incorporated 2004-10-07
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
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 (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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
61 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
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees4400

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-06-27
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2018-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-11-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-11-17
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2016-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-10-12
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-10-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2006-11-27
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    STOTT, Catherine Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  17. 2006-11-27
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    STOTT, Catherine Elizabeth appointed
    director
  18. 2006-11-27
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    SIM, Edna Isabella resigned
    secretary
  19. 2006-11-27
    ➖
    SIM, Edna Isabella resigned
    director
  20. 2006-11-27
    ➖
    SIM, Ronald Cook resigned
    director
  21. 2004-10-07
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    Company incorporated
    As PRO EQUINE LIMITED
  22. 2004-10-07
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    BAPTIE, Fiona Catherine appointed
    director
  23. 2004-10-07
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    SIM, Edna Isabella appointed
    secretary
  24. 2004-10-07
    ➕
    SIM, Edna Isabella appointed
    director
  25. 2004-10-07
    ➕
    SIM, Ronald Cook appointed
    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 22 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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
Mrs Catherine Elizabeth Stott
Individual · British · DOB 12/1962 · age 64
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Fiona Catherine Baptie
Individual · British · DOB 03/1973 · age 53
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.

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6 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
Incorporated2004-10-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Ashbrook House
Maryculter
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB12 5GR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-21
Last: 2025-10-07

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

STOTT, Catherine Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2006-11-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BAPTIE, Fiona Catherine→
director · ~53y · appointed 2004-10-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STOTT, Catherine Elizabeth→
director · ~64y · appointed 2006-11-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SIM, Edna Isabella→
secretary · appointed 2004-10-07 · resigned 2006-11-27
Resigned
SIM, Edna Isabella→
director · ~66y · appointed 2004-10-07 · resigned 2006-11-27
Resigned
SIM, Ronald Cook→
director · ~72y · appointed 2004-10-07 · resigned 2006-11-27
Resigned

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Recent filings (61 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2019-06-27