MARTIN ALAN HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC308225 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-07

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Financial management

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 18.6y

45/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 18.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (7 active, 9 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

79 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.

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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

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £569,406

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Profit before tax	£569.4k	—
Average employees	53	—

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

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2026-01-28
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accounts · AA
2025-01-29
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accounts · AA
2024-07-12
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-07-11
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-07-09
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mortgage · MR04
2024-07-09
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Charge satisfied #3
2024-01-31
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accounts · AA
2023-09-19
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officers · CH03
2023-09-19
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officers · CH01
2023-09-19
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officers · CH01
2023-09-19
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officers · CH01
2023-01-31
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accounts · AA
2022-11-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-11-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2022-06-17
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-06-17
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officers · AP01
2022-06-17
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officers · AP01
2022-06-17
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officers · AP01
2022-06-17
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capital · SH01
2022-06-06
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ANDERSON, Jackie appointed
director
2022-06-06
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BAILLIE, Christopher appointed
director
2022-06-06
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DAVIDSON, Hugh appointed
director
2022-03-08
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confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2022-01-27
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accounts · AA
2007-10-05
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FAIRLIE, Angus Andrew appointed
secretary
2007-10-05
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MACDONALDS resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2007-10-05
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Alan Richard Lyall Anderson
2007-10-05
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Angus Andrew Fairlie
2007-10-05
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Murray Scott Robb
2007-08-06
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ANDERSON, Alan Richard Lyall appointed
director
2007-08-06
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FAIRLIE, Angus Andrew appointed
director
2007-08-06
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ROBB, Murray Scott appointed
director
2007-08-06
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WHITE, Joyce Helen resigned
nominee-director
2006-09-07
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Company incorporated
As MARTIN ALAN HOLDINGS LIMITED
2006-09-07
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MACDONALDS appointed
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2006-09-07
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WHITE, Joyce Helen appointed
nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Hugh Davidson Individual · British · DOB 08/1980 · age 46	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	15/09/2020

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-09-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC70221 — Financial management

Registered office

Limemount, 5 Dudhope Terrace

Dundee

DD3 6HG

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-21

Last: 2025-09-07