FAIRCRAFT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC395208 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-10
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Artistic creation
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 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
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.

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 · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-302024-03-30
Average employees00

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-21
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-22
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  6. 2022-07-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2022-07-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2022-07-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2022-07-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2021-10-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-08-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2021-08-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2020-10-06
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    address · AD01
  14. 2020-10-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2020-07-13
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    NALCI, Hongmei appointed
    director
  16. 2020-07-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2020-07-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  18. 2020-07-13
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  19. 2020-07-13
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    officers · AP01
  20. 2011-03-10
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    Company incorporated
    As FAIRCRAFT LIMITED
  21. 2011-03-10
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    NALCI, Sitki appointed
    director

Owner dependency

96/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
  • +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

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Hongmei Nalci
Individual · British · DOB 02/1986 · age 40
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting12/08/2021
Mr Sitki Nalci
Individual · Turkish · DOB 10/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control30/06/2016

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
Incorporated2011-03-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

123 Irish Street
Dumfries
DG1 2PE
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-30
Last made up to: 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-26
Last: 2025-08-12

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

NALCI, Hongmei→
director · ~40y · appointed 2020-07-13
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Active
NALCI, Sitki→
director · ~74y · appointed 2011-03-10
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Active

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Recent filings (44 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-22
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-07-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-07-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-12