WESTSIDE DISTRIBUTION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC365971 · ltd · incorporated 2009-09-23
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 16.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of musical instruments
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 16.4y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
61 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,923,462

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Assets
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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
Profit before tax£1.92M£1.97M
Average employees272900

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
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-23
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  3. 2024-01-04
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  4. 2023-03-01
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-02
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    mortgage · MR01
  6. 2022-07-02
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    mortgage · 466(Scot)
  7. 2022-06-30
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    mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
    mortgage · 466(Scot)
  8. 2022-06-17
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Alison Marion Grant
  9. 2022-02-25
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-09-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2021-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-09-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2020-02-24
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  14. 2020-02-20
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  15. 2020-02-18
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2019-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-12-21
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-12-15
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  19. 2009-12-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2009-11-17
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    GRANT, Alison Marion appointed
    secretary
  21. 2009-11-17
    ➕
    GRANT, Alison Marion appointed
    director
  22. 2009-11-17
    ➕
    HAY, Philip Ewing appointed
    director
  23. 2009-11-17
    ➕
    VAN DER SCHOOT, Jonathan Francis appointed
    director
  24. 2009-11-17
    ➖
    SHELF SECRETARY LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2009-11-17
    ➖
    BEVERIDGE, David Brannigan resigned
    director
  26. 2009-11-17
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    SHELF DIRECTOR LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  27. 2009-09-23
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    Company incorporated
    As WESTSIDE DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
  28. 2009-09-23
    ➕
    SHELF SECRETARY LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  29. 2009-09-23
    ➕
    BEVERIDGE, David Brannigan appointed
    director
  30. 2009-09-23
    ➕
    SHELF DIRECTOR LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 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.)

Group structure

Westside Distribution Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Westside Distribution Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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WESTSIDE DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
This company · SC365971

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Westside Distribution Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control14/02/2020
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Philip Ewing Hayceased 14/02/2020· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-09-23
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46491 — Wholesale of musical instruments

Registered office

100 Fifty Pitches Road
Glasgow
G51 4EB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-07
Last: 2025-09-23

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

GRANT, Alison Marion→
secretary · appointed 2009-11-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GRANT, Alison Marion→
director · ~59y · appointed 2009-11-17
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Active
HAY, Philip Ewing→
director · ~67y · appointed 2009-11-17
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Active
VAN DER SCHOOT, Jonathan Francis→
director · ~62y · appointed 2009-11-17
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Active
SHELF SECRETARY LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-09-23 · resigned 2009-11-17
Resigned
BEVERIDGE, David Brannigan→
director · ~52y · appointed 2009-09-23 · resigned 2009-11-17
Resigned
SHELF DIRECTOR LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2009-09-23 · resigned 2009-11-17
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Alison Marion Grant / Jonathan Francis Van Der Schoot / Philip Ewing Hay
A registered charge—17/06/2022—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property23/12/2009—
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Recent filings (61 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-30
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-07-02
mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
mortgage · 466(Scot)
2022-07-02
mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
mortgage · 466(Scot)
2022-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-31