JIM HAMILTON DESIGN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC393832 · ltd · incorporated 2011-02-18

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 Feb 2025

Net worth

£172.6k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Artistic creation

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

34 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £172,620

Net assets shrinking

Down £23,783 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£173k

↓ 12% YoY

Current Assets

£202k

↓ 2.8% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-02-28	2024-02-29
Total assets	£172.6k	£196.4k
Current assets	£201.9k	£207.7k
Net assets	£172.6k	£196.4k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand

2026-02-20
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officers · CH01
2025-11-04
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2024-11-18
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2023-11-21
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2022-11-22
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2021-09-30
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2020-11-24
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2019-11-29
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2018-11-28
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2017-11-26
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2016-11-28
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accounts · AA
2016-03-01
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annual-return · AR01
2015-11-27
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2015-03-30
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2014-11-25
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2011-02-18
🏢
Company incorporated
As JIM HAMILTON DESIGN LIMITED
2011-02-18
➕
HAMILTON, Alison appointed
director
2011-02-18
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HAMILTON, James Michael appointed
director

Owner dependency

100/100

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HAMILTON" — 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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr James Michael Hamilton Individual · British · DOB 12/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016
Mrs Alison Hamilton Individual · British · DOB 03/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2011-02-18

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

Hamilton House

70 Hamilton Drive

Glasgow

G12 8DR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-30

Last made up to: 2025-02-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-04

Last: 2026-02-18

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HAMILTON, Alison→

director · ~60y · appointed 2011-02-18

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Active

HAMILTON, James Michael→

director · ~60y · appointed 2011-02-18

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Recent filings (34 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-03-10

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-02-20