IAN BURNS BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC297979 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-01
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other construction installation
Sector: Construction
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 43320Joinery installation
  • 43390Other building completion and finishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
62 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees300300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-14
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2025-11-14
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    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-11-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  4. 2025-11-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2025-07-09
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  6. 2024-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  7. 2023-08-14
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  8. 2022-08-30
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  9. 2021-07-05
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  10. 2020-05-25
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  11. 2019-08-26
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  12. 2018-12-20
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  13. 2017-12-01
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  14. 2016-12-16
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2013-12-01
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    BURNS, Janis Catherine appointed
    director
  16. 2012-12-20
    ➕
    DTA & CO LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2012-12-20
    ➖
    URQUHART TAYLOR & CO resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2012-12-01
    ➖
    BURNS, Janis Catherine resigned
    director
  19. 2007-04-09
    ➖
    BURNS, Janis Catherine resigned
    secretary
  20. 2007-04-09
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    URQUHART TAYLOR & CO appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2006-03-01
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    Company incorporated
    As IAN BURNS BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED
  22. 2006-03-01
    ➕
    BURNS, Ian Alexander appointed
    director
  23. 2006-03-01
    ➕
    BURNS, Janis Catherine appointed
    secretary
  24. 2006-03-01
    ➕
    BURNS, Janis Catherine appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BURNS" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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 Janis Catherine Burns
Individual · British · DOB 04/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting14/11/2025
Mr Ian Alexander Burns
Individual · British · DOB 05/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/07/2016

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
Incorporated2006-03-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43290 — Other construction installation

Registered office

54a Cow Wynd
Falkirk
FK1 1PU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-28
Last: 2025-11-14

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

DTA & CO LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2012-12-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURNS, Ian Alexander→
director · ~62y · appointed 2006-03-01
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Active
BURNS, Janis Catherine→
director · ~65y · appointed 2013-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURNS, Janis Catherine→
secretary · appointed 2006-03-01 · resigned 2007-04-09
Resigned
URQUHART TAYLOR & CO→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-04-09 · resigned 2012-12-20
Resigned
BURNS, Janis Catherine→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-03-01 · resigned 2012-12-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-14
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-26