PPP SERVICES (NORTH AYRSHIRE) HOLDINGS LIMITED

📉Decliningactive

SC294861 · ltd · incorporated 2005-12-23

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

drifting distress · 6-months

Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.

· Lifecycle stage drifting downward
· Currently "declining"

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: conservative operator with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 20.2y

65/100

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.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

32 officers (7 active, 32 linked, 28 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

36 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

139 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,153,000

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Profit before tax	£1.15M	£2.09M
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (77 events)Click to expand

2026-04-29
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accounts · AA
2025-04-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-25
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-02-21
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-02-20
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2024-09-05
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accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AAMD
2024-05-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-02
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2023-12-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-12-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-06-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-11
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-03-03
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officers · AP01
2023-01-31
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DIX, Carl Harvey appointed
director
2023-01-31
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WRINN, John resigned
director
2022-09-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-03
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officers · AP01
2021-11-01
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GILMOUR, David Fulton resigned
director
2021-11-01
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WRINN, John appointed
director
2021-11-01
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-06-01
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HANLEY, John Edgar Paul appointed
director
2018-06-01
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ROBINSON, Andrew resigned
director
2016-11-22
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DAVIES, David Wyn appointed
director
2016-11-22
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GEORGE, John Philip appointed
director
2016-11-22
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HESKETH, Timothy John resigned
director
2016-11-22
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RAWLINSON, Martin James resigned
director
2016-05-27
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CAVILL, John Ivor appointed
director
2016-05-27
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BIIF CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2013-09-09
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CARMICHAEL, Grant Robert resigned
director
2013-09-09
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HESKETH, Timothy John appointed
director
2012-02-29
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BREMNER, Alexander George resigned
director
2011-11-28
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GILMOUR, David Fulton appointed
director
2011-09-30
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REICHERTER, Matthias Alexander resigned
director
2010-08-01
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ROBINSON, Andrew appointed
director
2010-08-01
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TRESTLER, Christopher resigned
director
2009-11-25
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CARMICHAEL, Grant Robert appointed
director
2009-11-25
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MCBREARTY, Michael Joseph resigned
director
2009-10-14
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BREMNER, Alexander George appointed
director
2009-10-14
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BREMNER, Alexander George resigned
director
2009-10-14
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REICHERTER, Matthias Alexander appointed
director
2009-10-14
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RITCHIE, Alan Campbell resigned
director
2009-08-27
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INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2009-08-27
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MACLAY MURRAY & SPENS LLP resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2009-08-01
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ROBINSON, Andrew appointed
director
2009-08-01
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ROBINSON, Andrew resigned
director
2009-08-01
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TRESTLER, Christopher appointed
director
2009-08-01
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TRESTLER, Christopher resigned
director
2009-06-25
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JENNINGS, Oliver James Wake resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 77 events

Owner dependency

58/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Schools Capital Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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Pfi Infrastructure Finance Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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PPP SERVICES (NORTH AYRSHIRE) HOLDINGS LIMITED

This company · SC294861

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Schools Capital Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Pfi Infrastructure Finance Limited Corporate entity	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.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 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

Incorporated2005-12-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Infrastructure Managers Limited 2nd Floor Drum Suite, Saltire Court

20 Castle Terrace

Edinburgh

EH1 2EN

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-18

Last: 2026-01-04