LSK SUPPLIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC276903 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-02

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 20.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Retail sale of hardware, paints and glass in specialised stores

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 20.2y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 20.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

84 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-28
Average employees	5100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 accounts
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2026-05-29
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2026-01-22
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officers · CH01
2026-01-22
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-22
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-10
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-10-13
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-12-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-11-30
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-05
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accounts · AA
2019-03-21
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address · AD01
2010-12-23
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited
2010-11-03
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BELL, Garry appointed
director
2009-10-07
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MCCALL, William resigned
director
2006-03-21
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2006-01-01
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BELL, Sharon appointed
director
2005-03-16
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MCCALL, William appointed
director
2005-01-14
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BELL, John appointed
secretary
2005-01-14
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BELL, John appointed
director
2005-01-14
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STEWART, Alan James resigned
secretary
2004-12-13
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BELL, John appointed
director
2004-12-13
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STEWART, Alan James appointed
secretary
2004-12-13
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THE HAZLIEBRAE PARTNERSHIP LLP resigned
corporate-secretary
2004-12-13
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STEWART, Alan James resigned
director
2004-12-02
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Company incorporated
As LSK SUPPLIES LIMITED
2004-12-02
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THE HAZLIEBRAE PARTNERSHIP LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2004-12-02
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STEWART, Alan James appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John Bell Individual · British · DOB 08/1948 · age 78	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Garry Bell Individual · British · DOB 01/1967 · age 59	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2004-12-02

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47520 — Retail sale of hardware, paints and glass in specialised stores

Registered office

Lsk Supplies Ltd Block 6, Unit 1

Oakbank Industrial Estate

Glasgow

G20 7LU

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-28

Last made up to: 2025-03-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-21

Last: 2025-12-07