MACTAGGART SCOTT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

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SC334329 · ltd · incorporated 2007-11-22

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of production holding companies

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

15 officers (6 active, 15 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

88 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Loss-making

Loss before tax £2,994,815

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
Profit before tax	£-2.99M	—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 address
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (44 events)Click to expand

2026-01-29
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accounts · AA
2026-01-22
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address · AD01
2026-01-09
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address · AD01
2025-02-24
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officers · TM01
2025-02-23
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VENMAN, Marion Shepherd resigned
director
2025-01-07
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accounts · AA
2024-05-09
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officers · TM01
2024-05-07
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officers · AP01
2024-05-02
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officers · AP01
2024-05-02
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officers · AP01
2024-05-01
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DAVIDSON, Gary Alan appointed
director
2024-05-01
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WADDELL, Andrew Alan Wallace appointed
director
2024-05-01
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MARSH, William Paul resigned
director
2024-05-01
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VENMAN, Marion Shepherd appointed
director
2024-02-29
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-01-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-01-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-01-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-12-29
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THOMSON, Balfour resigned
director
2023-11-24
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WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace resigned
director
2023-01-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2021-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2021-01-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2020-06-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2011-12-16
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STRACHAN, Emily Lucinda resigned
director
2011-03-25
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DEREHAM, Orme Giles resigned
director
2010-11-01
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WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace appointed
director
2010-10-01
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STRACHAN, Emily Lucinda appointed
director
2010-05-20
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GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. resigned
director
2010-03-26
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MARSH, William Paul appointed
director
2008-05-06
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PRENTER, Michael Hugh Patrick appointed
director
2007-11-27
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PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
secretary
2007-11-27
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PRENTER, Patrick Robert appointed
director
2007-11-27
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PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
director
2007-11-27
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MORTON FRASER SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2007-11-27
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DEREHAM, Orme Giles appointed
director
2007-11-27
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GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. appointed
director
2007-11-27
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THOMSON, Balfour appointed
director
2007-11-27
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MORTON FRASER DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2007-11-22
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Company incorporated
As MACTAGGART SCOTT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
2007-11-22
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MORTON FRASER SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2007-11-22
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MORTON FRASER DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 low

Multiple registered office changes

low

Multiple address changes in a short period can indicate operational instability or admin disorder.

Group structure

Morton Fraser Trustees Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Morton Fraser Trustees Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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MACTAGGART SCOTT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

This company · SC334329

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Morton Fraser Trustees Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	—	25-50% shares · trust interest	06/04/2016
Mr Richard Gibson Scott Prenter Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Balfour Thomsonceased 29/12/2023· 25-50% shares · trust interest
Mr Graham Herbert Wallace Waddellceased 24/11/2023· 25-50% shares · trust interest

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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8 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

Incorporated2007-11-22

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC64202 — Activities of production holding companies

Registered office

. Hunter Avenue

Loanhead

EH20 9SL

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-06

Last: 2025-11-22