GREAT GLEN SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC372528 · ltd · incorporated 2010-02-08
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 50200
Sector: Transportation & storage
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 50400SIC 50400
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
51 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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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
Average employees6600

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-09
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    CANNELL, David Milburn resigned
    director
  3. 2024-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-12-09
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2024-12-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  6. 2023-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-03-31
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-01-11
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2018-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-12-13
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    GOVAN, David appointed
    director
  15. 2017-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-05-28
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2015-04-23
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    BROAD, William Ernest Lionel, Canon resigned
    director
  19. 2015-04-01
    ➖
    HIND, Donald resigned
    director
  20. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    BOYD, Malcolm Calum appointed
    director
  21. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    BROWNING, Liam David appointed
    director
  22. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    MACCOLL, Christine Catherine appointed
    director
  23. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    BROAD, William Ernest Lionel, Canon appointed
    director
  24. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    CANNELL, David Milburn appointed
    director
  25. 2010-05-19
    ➕
    HIND, Donald appointed
    director
  26. 2010-05-19
    ➖
    QUINN, Mandy Lees resigned
    director
  27. 2010-05-19
    ➖
    DM SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  28. 2010-02-08
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    Company incorporated
    As GREAT GLEN SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED
  29. 2010-02-08
    ➕
    QUINN, Mandy Lees appointed
    director
  30. 2010-02-08
    ➕
    DM SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — 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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Liam Browning
Individual · British · DOB 10/1984 · age 42
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest06/04/2016
Ms Christine Catherine Maccoll
Individual · British · DOB 12/1959 · age 67
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest06/04/2016
Mr Calum Brown
Individual · British · DOB 05/1954 · age 72
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David Cannellceased 30/09/2024· significant influence · firm interest

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
Incorporated2010-02-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC50200 — SIC 50200

Registered office

The Slipway
Corpach
Fort William
Inverness-Shire
PH33 7NB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

BOYD, Malcolm Calum→
director · ~72y · appointed 2010-05-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROWNING, Liam David→
director · ~42y · appointed 2010-05-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GOVAN, David→
director · ~76y · appointed 2018-12-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACCOLL, Christine Catherine→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-05-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROAD, William Ernest Lionel, Canon→
director · ~86y · appointed 2010-05-19 · resigned 2015-04-23
Resigned
CANNELL, David Milburn→
director · ~79y · appointed 2010-05-19 · resigned 2024-12-09
Resigned
HIND, Donald→
director · ~73y · appointed 2010-05-19 · resigned 2015-04-01
Resigned
QUINN, Mandy Lees→
director · ~59y · appointed 2010-02-08 · resigned 2010-05-19
Resigned
DM SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2010-02-08 · resigned 2010-05-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (51 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-12-09
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-03-31