THE SCOTCH BONNET (SCOTLAND) LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC298478 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-09
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 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: SIC 11010
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
26 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
65 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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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees30

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-31
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  3. 2025-03-27
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  4. 2025-03-25
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  5. 2025-03-25
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  6. 2025-03-17
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  7. 2025-03-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2024-03-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2023-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-03-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-08-02
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  16. 2019-08-02
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  17. 2018-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-06-01
    ➕
    GIBSON, John appointed
    director
  19. 2017-06-01
    ➕
    MORRISON, James Ross appointed
    director
  20. 2006-06-01
    ➕
    MORRISON, Shonagh Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  21. 2006-06-01
    ➕
    MORRISON, David Donald Corbett appointed
    director
  22. 2006-03-09
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As THE SCOTCH BONNET (SCOTLAND) LTD
  23. 2006-03-09
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2006-03-09
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2006-03-09
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 2006-03-09
    ➖
    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 82 — 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 82 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.)
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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
Incorporated2006-03-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC11010 — SIC 11010

Registered office

Torridon House, 56 Torridon Road
Broughty Ferry
Dundee
Dundee
DD5 3HB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-23
Last: 2026-03-09

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

MORRISON, Shonagh Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2006-06-01
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Active
GIBSON, John→
director · ~72y · appointed 2017-06-01
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Active
MORRISON, David Donald Corbett→
director · ~82y · appointed 2006-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MORRISON, James Ross→
director · ~60y · appointed 2017-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-03-09 · resigned 2006-03-09
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-03-09 · resigned 2006-03-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (65 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-01
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-03-31
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2025-03-27
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-03-25
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-03-25
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-03-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21