KIRKCOWAN VIKING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC307727 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-30

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

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 43130

Sector: Construction

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

51 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Average employees	2	200

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-04-10
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2025-03-12
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2024-02-06
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2023-02-13
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2022-03-07
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2020-12-17
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2020-03-26
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accounts · AA
2019-02-12
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accounts · AA
2018-10-04
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officers · CH01
2018-10-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2018-10-04
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officers · CH01
2018-10-04
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2018-03-07
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accounts · AA
2018-01-08
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address · AD01
2017-02-07
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accounts · AA
2015-05-26
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PARKER, Lesley appointed
director
2006-08-30
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Company incorporated
As KIRKCOWAN VIKING LIMITED
2006-08-30
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PARKER, Lesley Ethel appointed
secretary
2006-08-30
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PARKER, John William Glen appointed
director
2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
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2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
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2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
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2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
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2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. appointed
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2006-08-30
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PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. resigned
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Owner dependency

91/100

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.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100

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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John William Glen Parker Individual · British · DOB 02/1956 · age 70	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	30/06/2016

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

Incorporated2006-08-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC43130 — SIC 43130

Registered office

Waulkmill House

Kirkcowan

Newton Stewart

DG8 0HW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-13

Last: 2025-08-30

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

PARKER, Lesley Ethel→

secretary · appointed 2006-08-30

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Active

PARKER, John William Glen→

director · ~70y · appointed 2006-08-30

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Active

PARKER, Lesley→

director · ~69y · appointed 2015-05-26

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Active

PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-08-30 · resigned 2006-08-30

Resigned

PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-08-30 · resigned 2006-08-30

Resigned

PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-08-30 · resigned 2006-08-30

Resigned

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