T & R KEDDIE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC384705 · ltd · incorporated 2010-09-02
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 15.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). 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 15.4y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.4 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
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
42 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees9001000

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
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Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-18
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  2. 2024-12-06
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  3. 2023-10-24
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  4. 2022-07-30
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  5. 2021-09-27
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  6. 2020-12-11
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  7. 2020-09-03
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  8. 2020-09-03
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  9. 2019-10-21
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  10. 2019-09-02
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  11. 2019-09-02
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  12. 2019-09-02
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  13. 2019-09-02
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  14. 2019-09-02
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  16. 2018-10-10
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  17. 2017-12-14
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  18. 2015-08-10
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    PARKHILL, Gavin William appointed
    director
  19. 2011-02-03
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2010-09-02
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    Company incorporated
    As T & R KEDDIE LIMITED
  21. 2010-09-02
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    SCOTT, Linda Mari appointed
    secretary
  22. 2010-09-02
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    SCOTT, Linda Mari appointed
    director
  23. 2010-09-02
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    SCOTT, Robin Anderson appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Robin Anderson Scott
Individual · British · DOB 09/1961 · age 65
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting02/09/2016
Mrs Linda Mari Scott
Individual · British · DOB 06/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting02/09/2016

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
Incorporated2010-09-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

Rogers
Road
Selkirk
TD7 5DX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-15
Last: 2025-09-01

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

SCOTT, Linda Mari→
secretary · appointed 2010-09-02
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Active
PARKHILL, Gavin William→
director · ~45y · appointed 2015-08-10
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Active
SCOTT, Linda Mari→
director · ~64y · appointed 2010-09-02
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Active
SCOTT, Robin Anderson→
director · ~65y · appointed 2010-09-02
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Active

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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
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property03/02/2011—
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Recent filings (42 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-09-18
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-01
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-09-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-21