PRETAM BEAU LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC332578 · ltd · incorporated 2007-10-18
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 Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
Sector: Other service activities
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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
57 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees200200

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.

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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2024-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-04-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2023-04-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-04-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2023-04-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2022-10-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-08-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-08-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-07-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-10-18
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2013-04-16
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    HOWLAND, Angus James Turnbull appointed
    director
  17. 2011-04-06
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    HOWLAND, Angus James Turnbull resigned
    director
  18. 2007-10-18
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    Company incorporated
    As PRETAM BEAU LTD.
  19. 2007-10-18
    ➕
    HOWLAND, Serena Samone appointed
    secretary
  20. 2007-10-18
    ➕
    HOWLAND, Serena Samone appointed
    director
  21. 2007-10-18
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2007-10-18
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2007-10-18
    ➕
    HOWLAND, Angus James Turnbull appointed
    director
  24. 2007-10-18
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    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  25. 2007-10-18
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-director

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 19 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 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 Angus James Turnbull Howland
Individual · British · DOB 09/1956 · age 70
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Serena Samone Howland
Individual · British · DOB 02/1969 · age 57
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2007-10-18
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC96020 — Hairdressing and other beauty treatment

Registered office

68 Mcnee Place
Redding
Falkirk
FK2 9GR
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-01
Last: 2025-10-18

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

HOWLAND, Serena Samone→
secretary · appointed 2007-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOWLAND, Angus James Turnbull→
director · ~70y · appointed 2013-04-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOWLAND, Serena Samone→
director · ~57y · appointed 2007-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-10-18 · resigned 2007-10-18
Resigned
HOWLAND, Angus James Turnbull→
director · ~70y · appointed 2007-10-18 · resigned 2011-04-06
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2007-10-18 · resigned 2007-10-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (57 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-25