SERS ENERGY SOLUTIONS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC392085 · ltd · incorporated 2011-01-24
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
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other construction installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
44 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
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £2,306,330

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Profit before tax£2.31M
Average employees191800

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • 1 confirmation-statement
  • 1 address
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2025-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-29
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  7. 2021-10-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  8. 2021-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-10-05
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-01-04
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-09-21
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  15. 2016-04-12
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2011-01-24
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    Company incorporated
    As SERS ENERGY SOLUTIONS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
  17. 2011-01-24
    GRACIE, Ian appointed
    director
  18. 2011-01-24
    GRACIE, Marion appointed
    director
  19. 2011-01-24
    JONES, Lyndon Meirion 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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — 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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Sers Energy Solutions Holdings Limited holds majority control (50-75%). Likely parent but not wholly-owned.

🏛️
Sers Energy Solutions Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares
majority
SERS ENERGY SOLUTIONS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
This company · SC392085

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Sers Energy Solutions Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
5075%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting05/10/2021
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Sers Energy Solutions Group Ltdceased 05/10/2021· 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-01-24
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43290 — Other construction installation

Registered office

4 4 Edinburgh Road
South Queensferry
EH30 9HR
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-07
Last: 2026-01-24

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

GRACIE, Ian
director · ~66y · appointed 2011-01-24
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Active
GRACIE, Marion
director · ~63y · appointed 2011-01-24
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Active
JONES, Lyndon Meirion
director · ~69y · appointed 2011-01-24
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Active

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Recent filings (44 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-09
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-10-29
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2021-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-12-16