JCM LOAD MONITORING LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC393983 · ltd · incorporated 2011-02-22

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 Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 33190

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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

8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

53 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Average employees	800	700

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-04-14
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accounts · AA
2026-04-02
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officers · CH01
2025-08-14
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MURRAY, James Charles resigned
director
2025-08-14
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officers · TM01
2025-08-05
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capital · SH01
2025-07-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-07-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-05-23
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accounts · AA
2025-04-30
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accounts · AA01
2024-04-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-25
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accounts · AA
2020-03-24
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2019-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-10
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accounts · AA
2018-01-07
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accounts · AA
2017-03-01
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MURRAY, Christopher appointed
director
2017-03-01
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STEWART, Yvonne appointed
director
2017-02-10
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AYLING, David Peter resigned
director
2017-02-10
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MCGREAL, Peter Gerald resigned
director
2012-03-30
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FRASER, Fiona appointed
director
2011-08-23
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AYLING, David Peter appointed
director
2011-08-23
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MCGREAL, Peter Gerald appointed
director
2011-02-22
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Company incorporated
As JCM LOAD MONITORING LTD
2011-02-22
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MURRAY, Karen appointed
secretary
2011-02-22
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MURRAY, Karen appointed
director
2011-02-22
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MURRAY, James Charles appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — 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 68. 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Karen Murray Individual · British · DOB 06/1958 · age 68	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	25/06/2025

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr James Charles Murrayceased 25/07/2025· significant influence

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

Incorporated2011-02-22

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC33190 — SIC 33190

Registered office

10 Cairnhill Walk

Newtonhill

Stonehaven

Kincardineshire

AB39 3NE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-03

Last: 2026-02-17