ORION FISHING COMPANY LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC294800 · ltd · incorporated 2005-12-22
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 18.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£523.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03110
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). 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

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.9y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.9 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 (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
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
83 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 £523,172
Net assets shrinking
Down £106,508 YoY
Cash YoY
+7%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£146k
↑ 7.0% YoY
Net Worth
£523k
↓ 17% YoY
Current Assets
£167k
↑ 1.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£126k£252k£378k£504k£630kDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£2.40M£2.58M
Current assets£166.8k£164.4k
Cash£146.3k£136.7k
Debtors£20.6k£27.6k
Net assets£523.2k£629.7k

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
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Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-26
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  2. 2024-09-17
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  3. 2023-09-28
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  4. 2022-09-23
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  5. 2022-09-20
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  6. 2022-09-20
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  7. 2022-07-13
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  8. 2022-07-13
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  9. 2022-06-29
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  10. 2022-06-29
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  11. 2021-10-07
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  12. 2021-10-07
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    officers · TM01
  13. 2021-09-22
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    MAWHINNEY, Samuel James appointed
    director
  14. 2021-09-22
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    HUNTER, William Alasdair resigned
    director
  15. 2021-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-08-14
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  17. 2021-08-14
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    Charge satisfied #3
  18. 2020-09-21
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  19. 2020-05-26
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  20. 2020-05-26
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  21. 2019-09-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2019-01-16
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    MACKAY, George Hector resigned
    secretary
  23. 2019-01-16
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    address · AD01
  24. 2019-01-16
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    officers · TM02
  25. 2013-04-18
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    DOUGAL, Robert Ross resigned
    secretary
  26. 2013-04-18
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    MACKAY, George Hector appointed
    secretary
  27. 2010-04-14
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  28. 2009-10-07
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    Charge satisfied #2
  29. 2007-11-13
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  30. 2007-08-31
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    DOUGAL, Robert Ross appointed
    secretary
  31. 2007-08-31
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    HARVEY, Moira resigned
    secretary
  32. 2007-08-31
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    HUNTER, William Alasdair appointed
    director
  33. 2007-05-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  34. 2006-07-01
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    HARVEY, Brian appointed
    director
  35. 2006-07-01
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    HARVEY, Moira appointed
    director
  36. 2006-07-01
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    HARVEY, Moira appointed
    secretary
  37. 2005-12-22
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    Company incorporated
    As ORION FISHING COMPANY LTD.
  38. 2005-12-22
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    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  39. 2005-12-22
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  40. 2005-12-22
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  41. 2005-12-22
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 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

83/100
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.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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.)

Group structure

Denholm Fishselling Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Denholm Fishselling Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ORION FISHING COMPANY LTD.
This company · SC294800

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Denholm Fishselling Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting31/07/2021
Mrs Moira Harvey
Individual · British · DOB 02/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Brian Harvey
Individual · Scottish · DOB 11/1962 · age 64
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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8 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
Incorporated2005-12-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC03110 — SIC 03110

Registered office

Denholm Fishselling Ltd Unit 1-2
Old School
Cawdor
Nairn
IV12 5BL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-04
Last: 2025-09-20

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

HARVEY, Brian→
director · ~64y · appointed 2006-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARVEY, Moira→
director · ~62y · appointed 2006-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MAWHINNEY, Samuel James→
director · ~71y · appointed 2021-09-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOUGAL, Robert Ross→
secretary · appointed 2007-08-31 · resigned 2013-04-18
Resigned
HARVEY, Moira→
secretary · appointed 2006-07-01 · resigned 2007-08-31
Resigned
MACKAY, George Hector→
secretary · appointed 2013-04-18 · resigned 2019-01-16
Resigned
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-12-22 · resigned 2005-12-22
Resigned
HUNTER, William Alasdair→
director · ~64y · appointed 2007-08-31 · resigned 2021-09-22
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-12-22 · resigned 2005-12-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

5
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property29/06/2022—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property29/06/2022—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Mortgage1 property14/04/201014/08/2021
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Mortgage1 property13/11/200707/10/2009
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property28/05/2007—
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Recent filings (83 total)

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2025-10-09
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2025-09-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-07
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accounts · AA
2024-09-17
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accounts · AA
2023-09-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-20
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-09-20
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capital · SH01
2022-09-20
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mortgage · MR01
2022-07-13
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-07-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-22
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-10-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-10-07