HEAD GEAR FILMS FN LTD.

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SC313027 · ltd · incorporated 2006-12-05
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Motion picture distribution activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 1.8y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Newest facility, 1.8 years old — likely still in initial term.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
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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
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
56 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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees10001100

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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  2. 2024-10-31
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  3. 2024-08-12
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  4. 2024-08-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Seidlstrasse S.À R.L
  5. 2023-12-04
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  6. 2023-10-31
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  7. 2022-12-30
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  8. 2022-09-29
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  9. 2022-05-26
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  10. 2022-03-18
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  11. 2021-03-19
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  12. 2019-04-03
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  13. 2019-04-03
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  14. 2019-04-03
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  15. 2019-04-03
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  16. 2016-07-18
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  17. 2007-02-12
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    ROSS, Shaun Compton appointed
    secretary
  18. 2007-02-12
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    HUNT, Phillip Robert appointed
    director
  19. 2007-02-12
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    ROSS, Shaun Compton appointed
    director
  20. 2007-02-12
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    P & W SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
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  21. 2007-02-12
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    P & W DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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  22. 2006-12-05
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    Company incorporated
    As HEAD GEAR FILMS FN LTD.
  23. 2006-12-05
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    P & W SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2006-12-05
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    P & W DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

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 67. 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 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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 Shaun Compton Ross
Individual · British · DOB 04/1959 · age 67
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
Mr Philip Robert Hunt
Individual · British · DOB 07/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/11/2023

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-12-05
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC59131 — Motion picture distribution activities

Registered office

The Metrol Centre, Kirkhill
Place, Kirkhill Industrial
Estate, Dyce
Aberdeen
AB21 0GU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-19
Last: 2025-12-05

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

ROSS, Shaun Compton→
secretary · appointed 2007-02-12
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Active
HUNT, Phillip Robert→
director · ~59y · appointed 2007-02-12
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Active
ROSS, Shaun Compton→
director · ~67y · appointed 2007-02-12
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Active
P & W SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-12-05 · resigned 2007-02-12
Resigned
P & W DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-12-05 · resigned 2007-02-12
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Seidlstrasse S.À R.L
A registered charge—09/08/2024—
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Recent filings (56 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-31
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-08-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-10
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-15