KISHORN PORT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC350620 · ltd · incorporated 2008-10-30

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 Dec 2024

Net worth

£2.54M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

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 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -45% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 0.9y

10/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Newest facility, 0.9 years old — likely still in initial term.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

12 officers (7 active, 12 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

13 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

68 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £2,538,869

Net assets shrinking

Down £79,112 YoY

Cash draining

Cash down 45% YoY

Cash YoY

-45%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.2m

↓ 45% YoY

Net Worth

£2.5m

↓ 3.0% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Cash	£1.18M	£2.15M
Net assets	£2.54M	£2.62M

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

• 5 officers

Last 90 days

filings

• 5 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 6 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand

2026-04-08
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officers · TM01
2026-04-08
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officers · AP01
2026-04-01
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STEEL, David Scott appointed
director
2026-04-01
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ORTLEPP, Colin Angus resigned
director
2026-03-30
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-30
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officers · CH01
2026-03-30
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officers · CH03
2025-11-12
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officers · CH01
2025-09-16
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accounts · AA
2025-06-30
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mortgage · MR01
2025-06-18
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capital · SH01
2025-06-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2025-05-29
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officers · AP01
2025-05-29
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officers · AP01
2025-04-15
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FERGUSON, Kevin Lee appointed
director
2025-04-15
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MILNE, Grant Carnegie appointed
director
2024-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
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accounts · AA
2021-08-09
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accounts · AA
2020-12-01
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accounts · AA
2020-10-15
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officers · CH01
2020-05-01
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officers · CH01
2020-02-06
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ORTLEPP, Colin Angus appointed
director
2020-02-06
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officers · AP01
2020-01-06
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RUSSELL, Simon John resigned
director
2008-12-10
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MACKINNON, Caroline Anne appointed
secretary
2008-12-10
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FERGUSON, Alasdair John appointed
director
2008-12-10
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LEITH, Ian Alexander appointed
director
2008-12-10
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MACKINNON, Caroline Anne appointed
director
2008-12-10
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MACPHEE & PARTNERS resigned
corporate-secretary
2008-12-10
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BELL, Jonathan Richard Miles resigned
director
2008-12-10
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RUSSELL, Simon John appointed
director
2008-12-10
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MACPHEE NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2008-10-30
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Company incorporated
As KISHORN PORT LIMITED
2008-10-30
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MACPHEE & PARTNERS appointed
corporate-secretary
2008-10-30
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BELL, Jonathan Richard Miles appointed
director
2008-10-30
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MACPHEE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Ferguson Freight Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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Leiths (Scotland) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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KISHORN PORT LIMITED

This company · SC350620

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
Ferguson Freight Holdings Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/10/2016
Leiths (Scotland) Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/10/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-10-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Ferguson Transport (Spean Bridge) Limited

Annat

Corpach

Inverness-Shire

PH33 7NN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-13

Last: 2025-10-30