CAMPBELL PLANT (LOCHABER) LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC303491 · ltd · incorporated 2006-06-06
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 19.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.3y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
61 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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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 employees4400

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

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Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-08-28
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  3. 2023-11-15
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  4. 2023-10-30
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    LLOYD, Jill Sutherland resigned
    secretary
  5. 2023-08-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2022-12-06
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  7. 2021-11-03
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  8. 2020-12-14
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  9. 2019-09-04
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  10. 2018-06-19
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  11. 2018-05-22
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  12. 2017-11-08
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  13. 2017-05-08
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-08-16
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-08
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-07-28
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-06-25
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    CAMPBELL, Alan appointed
    director
  18. 2015-06-24
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    A C PLANT SALES LTD resigned
    corporate-director
  19. 2013-11-30
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    KENNEDY, Angus resigned
    director
  20. 2007-01-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  21. 2007-01-16
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    CAMPBELL, Shona resigned
    secretary
  22. 2007-01-16
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    LLOYD, Jill Sutherland appointed
    secretary
  23. 2006-06-07
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    CAMPBELL, Angus Allan appointed
    director
  24. 2006-06-07
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    KENNEDY, Angus appointed
    director
  25. 2006-06-06
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    Company incorporated
    As CAMPBELL PLANT (LOCHABER) LTD
  26. 2006-06-06
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    CAMPBELL, Shona appointed
    secretary
  27. 2006-06-06
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    A C PLANT SALES LTD appointed
    corporate-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 "CAMPBELL" — 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 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Mhor Properties Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Mhor Properties Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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CAMPBELL PLANT (LOCHABER) LTD
This company · SC303491

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Angus Allan Campbell
Individual · British · DOB 06/1972 · age 54
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/06/2017
Mhor Properties Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/06/2017

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
Incorporated2006-06-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC77320 — Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment

Registered office

Redwood
19 Culduthel Road
Inverness
IV2 4AA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-26
Last: 2025-09-12

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

CAMPBELL, Alan→
director · ~66y · appointed 2015-06-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CAMPBELL, Angus Allan→
director · ~54y · appointed 2006-06-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CAMPBELL, Shona→
secretary · appointed 2006-06-06 · resigned 2007-01-16
Resigned
LLOYD, Jill Sutherland→
secretary · appointed 2007-01-16 · resigned 2023-10-30
Resigned
KENNEDY, Angus→
director · ~60y · appointed 2006-06-07 · resigned 2013-11-30
Resigned
A C PLANT SALES LTD→
corporate-director · appointed 2006-06-06 · resigned 2015-06-24
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property26/01/2007—
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Recent filings (61 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-28
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-11-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-04