HUNTER FURNISHINGS LIMITED

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SC295684 · ltd · incorporated 2006-01-17
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
£846.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail sale of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 20.3y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 20.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (6 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £845,999
Very low cash
Cash position: £46
Net assets shrinking
Down £96,377 YoY
Cash YoY
-18%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£46
↓ 18% YoY
Net Worth
£846k
↓ 10% YoY
Current Assets
£1.2m
↓ 18% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£293k£587k£880k£1.2m£1.5mJan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Total assets£1.69M£1.95M
Current assets£1.20M£1.47M
Cash£46£56
Debtors£342.2k£392.9k
Net assets£846.0k£942.4k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-23
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  2. 2024-09-06
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  3. 2023-05-15
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  4. 2022-04-25
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  5. 2022-01-20
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  6. 2021-06-10
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    WILLIAMS, Sally appointed
    director
  7. 2021-06-10
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  8. 2021-04-29
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  9. 2020-11-03
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  10. 2019-10-03
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  11. 2018-05-30
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  12. 2017-10-27
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  13. 2017-09-15
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  14. 2017-06-14
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  15. 2016-06-24
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  16. 2016-01-19
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  17. 2011-06-06
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  18. 2011-05-25
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  19. 2006-02-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  20. 2006-01-17
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    Company incorporated
    As HUNTER FURNISHINGS LIMITED
  21. 2006-01-17
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    RICHARDSON, Robert Allan appointed
    secretary
  22. 2006-01-17
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    RICHARDSON, Alistair William John appointed
    director
  23. 2006-01-17
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    RICHARDSON, Marjorie Evelyn appointed
    director
  24. 2006-01-17
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    RICHARDSON, Neil Cameron appointed
    director
  25. 2006-01-17
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    RICHARDSON, Robert Allan 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
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — 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 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Marjorie Evelyn Richardson
Individual · British · DOB 09/1942 · age 84
25–50%
—25-50% shares19/01/2022
Mr Robert Allan Richardson
Individual · British · DOB 04/1942 · age 84
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
Incorporated2006-01-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47599 — Retail sale of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised stores

Registered office

Fleming House
134 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6ST
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last: 2026-01-17

Officers (6 active · 0 resigned)

RICHARDSON, Robert Allan→
secretary · appointed 2006-01-17
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RICHARDSON, Alistair William John→
director · ~56y · appointed 2006-01-17
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RICHARDSON, Marjorie Evelyn→
director · ~84y · appointed 2006-01-17
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RICHARDSON, Neil Cameron→
director · ~58y · appointed 2006-01-17
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Active
RICHARDSON, Robert Allan→
director · ~84y · appointed 2006-01-17
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Active
WILLIAMS, Sally→
director · ~56y · appointed 2021-06-10
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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Standard security1 property06/06/2011—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property25/05/2011—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property10/02/2006—
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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-08
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-01-20
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-21