ENGINEERING SUPPLY CO (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC333925 · ltd · incorporated 2007-11-14
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 18.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£984.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46140
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 18.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.0 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: 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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
63 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £984,556
Cash YoY
+25%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£204k
↑ 25% YoY
Net Worth
£985k
↑ 1.2% YoY
Current Assets
£1.3m
↓ 8.6% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£285k£571k£856k£1.1m£1.4mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.03M£1.03M
Current assets£1.30M£1.43M
Cash£204.0k£163.7k
Debtors£635.2k£797.2k
Net assets£984.6k£972.6k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-06
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2022-07-06
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2022-07-06
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  8. 2022-07-06
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  9. 2022-07-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  10. 2022-07-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  11. 2022-06-30
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    MCMORRIS, James Eric resigned
    secretary
  12. 2022-06-30
    ➖
    MCMORRIS, Archibald Gordon resigned
    director
  13. 2022-06-30
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    MCMORRIS, James Eric resigned
    director
  14. 2021-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-02-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2016-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2013-03-31
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    HEPBURN, Christopher James resigned
    director
  21. 2008-05-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  22. 2008-03-14
    ➕
    HEPBURN, Christopher James appointed
    director
  23. 2008-03-10
    ➕
    CONNIE, Caroline appointed
    director
  24. 2008-03-10
    ➕
    LIDDELL, Alexander appointed
    director
  25. 2008-03-10
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    MCMORRIS, Dean Williams appointed
    director
  26. 2007-11-14
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    Company incorporated
    As ENGINEERING SUPPLY CO (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
  27. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    MCMORRIS, James Eric appointed
    secretary
  28. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 2007-11-14
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    MCMORRIS, Archibald Gordon appointed
    director
  31. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    MCMORRIS, James Eric appointed
    director
  32. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  33. 2007-11-14
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  34. 2007-11-14
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  35. 2007-11-14
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

68/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Dean Williams Mcmorris
Individual · British · DOB 08/1971 · age 55
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control31/03/2022
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr James Eric Mcmorrisceased 31/03/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Archibald Gordon Mcmorrisceased 31/03/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-11-14
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46140 — SIC 46140

Registered office

Unit 5 Block 3
Thornliebank Industrial Estate
Glasgow
G46 8TU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-27
Last: 2025-11-13

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

CONNIE, Caroline→
director · ~60y · appointed 2008-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LIDDELL, Alexander→
director · ~63y · appointed 2008-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCMORRIS, Dean Williams→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCMORRIS, James Eric→
secretary · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2022-06-30
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2007-11-14
Resigned
HEPBURN, Christopher James→
director · ~56y · appointed 2008-03-14 · resigned 2013-03-31
Resigned
MCMORRIS, Archibald Gordon→
director · ~78y · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2022-06-30
Resigned
MCMORRIS, James Eric→
director · ~78y · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2022-06-30
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2007-11-14
Resigned
PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-11-14 · resigned 2007-11-14
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property19/05/2008—
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Recent filings (63 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-07-06
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-07-06
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-07-06
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21