ANSELL JONES MARINE SERVICES LTD.

🌳Matureactive

SC320050 · ltd · incorporated 2007-03-30

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

£164.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -36% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (68/100)

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

7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

60 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £164,318

Net assets shrinking

Down £5,550 YoY

Cash YoY

-36%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£105k

↓ 36% YoY

Net Worth

£164k

↓ 3.3% YoY

Current Assets

£288k

↓ 17% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£164.3k	£169.9k
Current assets	£288.3k	£345.9k
Cash	£104.7k	£163.5k
Debtors	£47.5k	£14.3k
Net assets	£164.3k	£169.9k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-03-31
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-14
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capital · SH06
2021-06-01
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capital · SH03
2021-04-27
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officers · TM01
2021-04-27
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-03-31
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THOMSON, Robert Henry resigned
secretary
2021-03-31
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THOMSON, Robert Henry resigned
director
2021-03-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-04
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-12-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2008-06-12
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O'BRIEN, Brendan Thomas resigned
director
2007-04-02
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O'BRIEN, Brendan Thomas appointed
director
2007-03-30
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Company incorporated
As ANSELL JONES MARINE SERVICES LTD.
2007-03-30
➕
DOCHERTY, Gerard Michael appointed
director
2007-03-30
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OGILVIE, Alan George appointed
director
2007-03-30
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THOMSON, Robert Henry appointed
secretary
2007-03-30
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-secretary
2007-03-30
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-secretary
2007-03-30
➕
THOMSON, Robert Henry appointed
director
2007-03-30
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-director
2007-03-30
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. 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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2007-03-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74909 — Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Registered office

21 Forbes Place

Paisley

PA1 1UT

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-12

Last: 2026-03-29

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

DOCHERTY, Gerard Michael→

director · ~55y · appointed 2007-03-30

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

OGILVIE, Alan George→

director · ~61y · appointed 2007-03-30

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

THOMSON, Robert Henry→

secretary · appointed 2007-03-30 · resigned 2021-03-31

Resigned

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-03-30 · resigned 2007-03-30

Resigned

O'BRIEN, Brendan Thomas→

director · ~76y · appointed 2007-04-02 · resigned 2008-06-12

Resigned

THOMSON, Robert Henry→

director · ~79y · appointed 2007-03-30 · resigned 2021-03-31

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-director · appointed 2007-03-30 · resigned 2007-03-30

Resigned

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Recent filings (60 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-03-31

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-03-31