MCGHEE GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC362390 · ltd · incorporated 2009-07-09

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 15.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of head offices

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.3y

75/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 15.3 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.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

10 officers (7 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

65 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £5,402,505

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	2025-08-02	2024-08-03
Profit before tax	£5.40M	—

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 5 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-03-09
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2025-12-02
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2025-11-25
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2025-11-25
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2025-04-22
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2024-12-23
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BLACOE, William George appointed
director
2024-12-23
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MACKENZIE, Aisling appointed
director
2024-12-23
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MCGHEE, Russell Ian appointed
director
2024-12-23
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2024-04-29
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2024-04-29
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2024-04-29
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2024-04-09
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2023-03-24
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2021-12-23
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2020-12-23
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2020-04-30
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2011-02-10
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2009-10-06
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MCGHEE, Ian Calder appointed
secretary
2009-10-06
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MCGHEE, Gordon Douglas appointed
director
2009-10-06
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MCGHEE, Ian Calder appointed
director
2009-10-06
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MCGHEE, Stuart Alexander appointed
director
2009-10-06
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BRODIES SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2009-10-06
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VOGE, Julian Cecil Arthur resigned
director
2009-10-06
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ATHOLL INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2009-07-09
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Company incorporated
As MCGHEE GROUP LIMITED
2009-07-09
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BRODIES SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2009-07-09
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VOGE, Julian Cecil Arthur appointed
director
2009-07-09
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ATHOLL INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-director

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MCGHEE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

23/100

No succession signal

No meaningful acquirability indicators from public data.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — MCGHEE, Russell Ian (same surname) appointed 2024-12-23. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Gordon Douglas Mcghee Individual · British · DOB 02/1959 · age 67	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	23/11/2025
Aisling Mackenzie Individual · British · DOB 03/1990 · age 36	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	23/11/2025
Mr Stuart Alexander Mcghee Individual · British · DOB 04/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Ian Calder Mcghee Individual · British · DOB 12/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Gordon Douglas Mcgheeceased 23/11/2025· 25-50% shares

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

Incorporated2009-07-09

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

10 Keppochhill Drive

Glasgow

G21 1HX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-08-02

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-25

Last: 2025-06-11