PALACE ENTERPRISE (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC350137 · ltd · incorporated 2008-10-20
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
46 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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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
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filings
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-11-18
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  3. 2023-12-19
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  4. 2022-12-11
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  5. 2021-11-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2020-11-24
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  7. 2020-11-05
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  8. 2020-11-05
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  9. 2019-11-21
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  10. 2018-11-27
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  11. 2017-10-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  12. 2016-11-22
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  13. 2016-11-22
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    officers · CH01
  14. 2016-11-21
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2008-10-20
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    Company incorporated
    As PALACE ENTERPRISE (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
  16. 2008-10-20
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    COX, Bradley appointed
    director
  17. 2008-10-20
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    COX, Jenny appointed
    director

Owner dependency

81/100
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 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 18 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Bradley Cox
Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/10/2016
Miss Jenny Cox
Individual · British · DOB 04/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/10/2016

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
Incorporated2008-10-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

8 Albert Street
Kirkwall
Orkney
KW15 1HP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-10
Last: 2025-10-27

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

COX, Bradley→
director · ~63y · appointed 2008-10-20
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COX, Jenny→
director · ~61y · appointed 2008-10-20
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Recent filings (46 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-11-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-11-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-21