PENTLAND KITCHENS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC307579 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-29
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Steady and tidy — no seller pressure yet. Approach only if an angle opens.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 7.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 7.2y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
45 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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-£14k£172k£358k£544k£730k£915kAug 2023Aug 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-08-312023-08-31
Total assets—£83.5k
Current assets—£915.4k
Cash—£428.6k
Debtors—£278.7k
Net assets—£-14.0k
Average employees2000—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2024-10-04
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  2. 2024-08-27
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  3. 2023-05-26
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  4. 2022-08-28
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  5. 2021-05-30
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  6. 2020-05-30
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  7. 2019-05-13
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  8. 2019-04-16
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  9. 2019-04-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  10. 2018-05-17
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  11. 2017-05-09
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  12. 2016-05-30
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  13. 2015-10-06
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  14. 2015-05-02
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  15. 2014-09-16
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  16. 2014-05-26
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  17. 2009-10-01
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    COGHILL, Ian appointed
    director
  18. 2006-10-11
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    GREIG, Alan Grant appointed
    secretary
  19. 2006-10-11
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    1924 NOMINEES LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2006-08-29
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    Company incorporated
    As PENTLAND KITCHENS LIMITED
  21. 2006-08-29
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    RIDDLE, Angus Simon appointed
    director
  22. 2006-08-29
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    1924 NOMINEES LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2006-08-29
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    1924 DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  24. 2006-08-29
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    1924 DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 63. 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Angus Simon Riddle
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/07/2016
Mr Ian Coghill
Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/07/2016

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
Incorporated2006-08-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47789 — Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)

Registered office

195 Lindsay Road
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH6 6ND

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-12
Last: 2025-08-29

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

GREIG, Alan Grant→
secretary · appointed 2006-10-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COGHILL, Ian→
director · ~63y · appointed 2009-10-01
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Active
RIDDLE, Angus Simon→
director · ~63y · appointed 2006-08-29
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Active
1924 NOMINEES LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2006-08-29 · resigned 2006-10-11
Resigned
1924 DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2006-08-29 · resigned 2006-08-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge—09/04/2019—
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Recent filings (45 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-09
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-08-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-05-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-08-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-05-13
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2019-04-16