WICKED COSTUMES GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC402313 · ltd · incorporated 2011-06-23

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 12.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£474.0k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of head offices

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 12.1y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 12.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

42 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £473,968

Cash YoY

+278%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.1m

↑ 278% YoY

Net Worth

£474k

~ YoY

Current Assets

£2.2m

↑ 28% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£474.0k	£474.0k
Current assets	£2.24M	£1.75M
Cash	£1.10M	£291.1k
Debtors	£1.14M	£1.46M
Net assets	£474.0k	£474.0k

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

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2025-09-03
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2024-06-26
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2023-10-04
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accounts · AA
2022-11-09
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2022-04-21
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2022-04-21
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2022-04-21
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2022-04-21
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2022-04-21
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MCALLISTER, Craig William appointed
director
2022-04-06
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MCALLISTER, Emma appointed
director
2021-09-15
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2021-03-16
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2019-07-02
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2018-09-05
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2017-10-25
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2017-03-24
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2014-06-03
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2011-06-23
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Company incorporated
As WICKED COSTUMES GROUP LIMITED
2011-06-23
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MCALLISTER, Alison appointed
secretary
2011-06-23
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HODGE, Adrian Mark appointed
director
2011-06-23
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MCALLISTER, Steven James Kenneth appointed
director

Owner dependency

66/100

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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

23/100

No succession signal

No meaningful acquirability indicators from public data.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — MCALLISTER, Craig William (same surname) appointed 2022-04-06. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
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

Wicked Costumes Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Wicked Costumes Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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WICKED COSTUMES GROUP LIMITED

This company · SC402313

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Wicked Costumes Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2022

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Steven James Kenneth Mcallisterceased 06/04/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Alh Group Limitedceased 06/04/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

Incorporated2011-06-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

6 Brewster Place

Riverside Business Park

Irvine

KA11 5DD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-07-07

Last: 2026-06-23