MID YELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

🌳Matureactive

SC357434 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2009-03-30

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

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 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

15 officers (8 active, 15 linked, 14 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

57 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts
• 1 address

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2025-12-10
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accounts · AA
2025-11-23
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address · AD01
2024-12-02
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accounts · AA
2023-11-27
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accounts · AA
2022-11-16
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accounts · AA
2022-06-12
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officers · TM01
2022-05-31
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NISBET, Stanley resigned
director
2021-06-21
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accounts · AA
2020-06-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-17
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accounts · AA
2019-08-13
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officers · AP01
2019-08-13
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officers · AP01
2019-08-09
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HUGHSON, Grace Annie appointed
director
2019-08-09
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STRACHAN, Wayne Alexander appointed
director
2019-06-11
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officers · AP01
2019-06-11
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officers · AP01
2019-06-03
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ROBERTSON, John Robert appointed
director
2019-06-03
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NISBET, Stanley appointed
director
2018-11-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-07-02
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2018-07-02
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officers · TM01
2018-06-25
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BROWN, Ogilvy Vincent resigned
director
2018-06-25
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GRAY, James Maurice resigned
director
2017-11-30
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COUTTS, David James resigned
director
2016-01-05
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JAMIESON, Ryan Victor resigned
director
2012-05-08
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STIRLING, Fiona Isabel appointed
director
2011-05-25
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GRAY, Hazel Louise resigned
secretary
2011-05-25
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TONNER, John resigned
director
2009-03-30
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Company incorporated
As MID YELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
2009-03-30
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GRAY, Charles Richard appointed
director
2009-03-30
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HUGHSON, Graham Henry appointed
director
2009-03-30
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KEITH, Graham Robert appointed
director
2009-03-30
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SMITH, Erland Neil appointed
director
2009-03-30
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GRAY, Hazel Louise appointed
secretary
2009-03-30
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BROWN, Ogilvy Vincent appointed
director
2009-03-30
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COUTTS, David James appointed
director
2009-03-30
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GRAY, James Maurice appointed
director
2009-03-30
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JAMIESON, Ryan Victor appointed
director
2009-03-30
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TONNER, John appointed
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

-8 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

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 78 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms. Fiona Isabel Stirling Individual · British · DOB 05/1970 · age 56	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest	01/01/2017

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2009-03-30

Jurisdictionscotland

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

Registered office

Fernbrae

Hillend

Mid Yell

Shetland Islands

ZE2 9BJ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-11

Last: 2026-03-28