KEN MALCOLM EQUIPMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC316566 · ltd · incorporated 2007-02-15

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 19.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46730

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 78). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.0y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 19.0 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: 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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

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

49 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	11	1100

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-01-23
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accounts · AA
2025-01-24
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accounts · AA
2024-01-26
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accounts · AA
2023-01-23
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accounts · AA
2022-01-11
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accounts · AA
2021-03-23
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accounts · AA
2019-12-20
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accounts · AA
2019-01-23
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accounts · AA
2018-01-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2017-02-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-03-02
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2016-01-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-02-24
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2015-01-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2014-02-28
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2007-05-08
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2007-02-15
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Company incorporated
As KEN MALCOLM EQUIPMENT LIMITED
2007-02-15
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MALCOLM, Aileen appointed
secretary
2007-02-15
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MALCOLM, Aileen appointed
director
2007-02-15
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MALCOLM, Kenneth Henry appointed
director
2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
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2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
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2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2007-02-15
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PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. resigned
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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 "MALCOLM" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 78 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 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Kenneth Henry Malcolm Individual · British · DOB 09/1948 · age 78	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	15/02/2017

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

Incorporated2007-02-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC46730 — SIC 46730

Registered office

Old Station Yard

Station Road

Newmachar

Aberdeenshire

AB21 0PW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-01

Last: 2026-02-15

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

MALCOLM, Aileen→

secretary · appointed 2007-02-15

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Active

MALCOLM, Aileen→

director · ~76y · appointed 2007-02-15

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Active

MALCOLM, Kenneth Henry→

director · ~78y · appointed 2007-02-15

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Active

PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2007-02-15 · resigned 2007-02-15

Resigned

PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-02-15 · resigned 2007-02-15

Resigned

PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-02-15 · resigned 2007-02-15

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland	Bond & floating charge	1 property	08/05/2007	—

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Recent filings (49 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-01-23