E.G. STEELE HOLDINGS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC389896 · ltd · incorporated 2010-12-03
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 12.6y 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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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 12.6y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 12.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
55 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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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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.
🔒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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-02-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-02-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-02-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-02-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-02-18📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-11-27📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2024-11-26📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-18📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2024-04-26📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2024-04-25📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2024-04-25📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-12-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-10📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-29📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-03-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-12➕STEELE, Alan appointeddirector
- 2018-06-06➖HOOD, John Frame resigneddirector
- 2014-10-16🔒Charge registered #2Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2013-09-12🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2010-12-03🏢Company incorporatedAs E.G. STEELE HOLDINGS LIMITED
- 2010-12-03➕STEELE, Anne Carruthers appointeddirector
- 2010-12-03➕STEELE, David Allan appointeddirector
- 2010-12-03➕HOOD, John Frame appointeddirector
Owner dependency
98/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "STEELE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — 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 candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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
cleanNo 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 · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Alan Steele Individual · British · DOB 03/1984 · age 42 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 02/07/2024 |
Mr David Allan Steele Individual · British · DOB 12/1955 · age 71 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-12-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Registered office
4 Middleton Avenue
Strutherhill Industrial Estate
Larkhall
Lanarkshire
ML9 2TL
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-17
Last: 2025-12-03
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
STEELE, Alan→
Activedirector · ~42y · appointed 2018-06-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
STEELE, Anne Carruthers→
Activedirector · ~70y · appointed 2010-12-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
STEELE, David Allan→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2010-12-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
HOOD, John Frame→
Resigneddirector · ~69y · appointed 2010-12-03 · resigned 2018-06-06
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 16/10/2014 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 12/09/2013 | — |
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Recent filings (55 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-18
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-02-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-11-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-11-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-20
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2024-07-18
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2024-04-26
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-04-25