SADCO NURSERIES LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC420427 · ltd · incorporated 2012-03-27
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
30 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
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
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-31
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-11-12
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    second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  8. 2020-11-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  9. 2020-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-18
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-12-24
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-05-09
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2012-03-27
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    Company incorporated
    As SADCO NURSERIES LTD
  17. 2012-03-27
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    SADIQ, Amjid appointed
    director
  18. 2012-03-27
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    SADIQ, Arshad appointed
    director
  19. 2012-03-27
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    SADIQ, Mohammed Saleem 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
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
  • 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
Mr Amjid Sadiq
Individual · British · DOB 07/1969 · age 57
25–50%
25–50%board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest23/03/2020
Mr Mohammed Saleem Sadiq
Individual · British · DOB 10/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · firm interest23/03/2020

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
Incorporated2012-03-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education

Registered office

2 Methven Avenue
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 2AX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-09
Last: 2026-03-26

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

SADIQ, Amjid→
director · ~57y · appointed 2012-03-27
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Active
SADIQ, Arshad→
director · ~59y · appointed 2012-03-27
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Active
SADIQ, Mohammed Saleem→
director · ~70y · appointed 2012-03-27
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Active

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Recent filings (30 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-29
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2020-11-12
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-30