ALEXANDER MARITIME LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC276276 · ltd · incorporated 2004-11-19
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 15.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£3.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 50400
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
58 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,758
High leverage
Liabilities are 100% of total assets
Leverage
100%
Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£4k
↑ 31% YoY
Current Assets
£8k
↓ 38% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£3k£5k£8k£11k£13kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£8.3k£13.4k
Current assets£8.3k£13.4k
Net assets£3.8k£2.9k

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

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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
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  3. 2023-12-30
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  4. 2022-12-22
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  5. 2021-12-20
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  6. 2021-07-15
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  7. 2021-07-15
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  8. 2021-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-23
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-11-29
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2017-11-15
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-12-21
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-08-29
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2016-08-29
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2011-05-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
  17. 2004-11-19
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    Company incorporated
    As ALEXANDER MARITIME LTD.
  18. 2004-11-19
    ➕
    FRASER, Kenneth appointed
    secretary
  19. 2004-11-19
    ➕
    FRASER, Joyce appointed
    director
  20. 2004-11-19
    ➕
    FRASER, Kenneth appointed
    director
  21. 2004-11-19
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    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2004-11-19
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2004-11-19
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2004-11-19
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — 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 71 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 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Joyce Fraser
Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67
75–100%
—75-100% shares19/11/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Kenneth Fraserceased 06/04/2021· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2004-11-19
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC50400 — SIC 50400

Registered office

23 Deaconsgrange Road
Deaconsbank
Glasgow
G46 7UL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-07
Last: 2025-10-24

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

FRASER, Kenneth→
secretary · appointed 2004-11-19
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Active
FRASER, Joyce→
director · ~67y · appointed 2004-11-19
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Active
FRASER, Kenneth→
director · ~71y · appointed 2004-11-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-11-19 · resigned 2004-11-19
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-11-19 · resigned 2004-11-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lombard North Central
Lombard North Central PLC
Marine mortgage1 property23/05/2011—
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Recent filings (58 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-25
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-07-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-23