GREENPORT LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

SC300747 · ltd · incorporated 2006-04-13

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Steady and stalled — no momentum either way. Needs an approach trigger.

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

£532.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate

Sector: Real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -47% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 19.9y

45/100

under pressure

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

· Oldest live charge is 19.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 1 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

60 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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £532,442

Net assets shrinking

Down £49,156 YoY

Cash draining

Cash down 47% YoY

Cash YoY

-47%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£25k

↓ 47% YoY

Net Worth

£532k

↓ 8.5% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Cash	£25.1k	£47.2k
Net assets	£532.4k	£581.6k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

2026-01-19
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2024-12-04
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2024-01-29
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2023-04-25
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2023-04-25
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2023-01-17
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2022-04-26
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2022-01-12
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2021-04-26
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2020-01-15
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2019-01-21
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2018-09-28
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mortgage · MR04
2018-09-28
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mortgage · MR04
2018-09-28
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Charge satisfied #2
2018-09-28
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Charge satisfied #1
2006-08-31
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2006-07-07
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2006-05-26
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TAIT, Janet Elizabeth appointed
secretary
2006-05-26
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PARKER, Richard appointed
director
2006-05-26
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-05-26
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
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2006-04-13
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Company incorporated
As GREENPORT LIMITED
2006-04-13
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-04-13
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100

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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Richard Parker Individual · British · DOB 01/1954 · age 72	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	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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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →

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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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-04-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

The Lodgehouse

Eglinton Gardens

Skelmorlie

PA17 5DW

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-26

Last: 2026-04-12

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

TAIT, Janet Elizabeth→

secretary · appointed 2006-05-26

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

PARKER, Richard→

director · ~72y · appointed 2006-05-26

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-04-13 · resigned 2006-05-26

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-04-13 · resigned 2006-05-26

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	31/08/2006	28/09/2018
	satisfied	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	07/07/2006	28/09/2018

Recent filings (60 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-01-19

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-14

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-12-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-01-29

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-04-25

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2023-04-25

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-25

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date

officers · CH03

2023-04-25

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-04-25

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2023-04-25

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-01-17

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-04-26

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-25