KAMCO RETAIL LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC355651 · ltd · incorporated 2009-02-26
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 16.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£141.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). 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 16.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.1 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: medium (79/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
52 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 £140,964
Cash YoY
+9%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£209k
↑ 8.5% YoY
Net Worth
£141k
↑ 6.0% YoY
Current Assets
£259k
↑ 6.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£52k£103k£155k£207k£259kApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£141.0k£133.0k
Current assets£258.7k£242.8k
Cash£209.3k£192.9k
Net assets£141.0k£133.0k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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2 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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-03-13
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  3. 2024-01-31
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  4. 2023-01-26
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  5. 2022-03-23
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  6. 2021-04-30
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  7. 2021-02-20
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    address · AD01
  8. 2020-01-30
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  9. 2018-12-21
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  10. 2017-12-01
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  11. 2017-10-17
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  12. 2017-10-17
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  13. 2017-01-05
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  14. 2016-02-25
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  15. 2015-12-10
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  16. 2010-04-20
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2009-02-27
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    CREDITREFORM (SECRETARIES) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2009-02-27
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    STEWARD, Vikki resigned
    director
  19. 2009-02-26
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    Company incorporated
    As KAMCO RETAIL LTD
  20. 2009-02-26
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    ALI, Mnawar appointed
    secretary
  21. 2009-02-26
    ➕
    ALI, Azam appointed
    director
  22. 2009-02-26
    ➕
    ALI, Kasim appointed
    director
  23. 2009-02-26
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    ALI, Mnawar appointed
    director
  24. 2009-02-26
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    ALI, Zafar appointed
    director
  25. 2009-02-26
    ➕
    CREDITREFORM (SECRETARIES) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2009-02-26
    ➕
    STEWARD, Vikki appointed
    director

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 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 87 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Mnawar Ali
Individual · British · DOB 09/1971 · age 55
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/02/2017

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
Incorporated2009-02-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47110 — Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating

Registered office

7-13 Briarwood Road
Wishaw
ML2 7RU
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-16
Last: 2025-11-02

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

ALI, Mnawar→
secretary · appointed 2009-02-26
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Active
ALI, Azam→
director · ~60y · appointed 2009-02-26
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Active
ALI, Kasim→
director · ~43y · appointed 2009-02-26
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Active
ALI, Mnawar→
director · ~55y · appointed 2009-02-26
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Active
ALI, Zafar→
director · ~87y · appointed 2009-02-26
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Active
CREDITREFORM (SECRETARIES) LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-02-26 · resigned 2009-02-27
Resigned
STEWARD, Vikki→
director · ~44y · appointed 2009-02-26 · resigned 2009-02-27
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property20/04/2010—
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Recent filings (52 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-20