HAMILTON BID LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC434756 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2012-10-15

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 opening · medium confidence

More negotiable than before — 1 signals weakening over the last 30 days.

· Deal-killer verdict: high-friction → not-transactable

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Picture worsened over the last 30 days — 1 negative signal vs 0 positive.

↓Deal-killer verdict: high-friction → not-transactable

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

£231.4k

year to Oct 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

75/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 75/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (88/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

39 officers (8 active, 39 linked, 35 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

103 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

75/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

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 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £18,120

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Turnover	£231.4k	—	—
Gross profit	£231.4k	—	—
Operating profit	£18.1k	—	—
Profit before tax	£18.1k	—	—
Average employees	200	200	200

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 5 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (92 events)Click to expand

2026-07-01
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accounts · AA
2026-06-22
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officers · AP01
2026-06-18
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officers · TM01
2026-06-10
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MCCAHON, Gillian appointed
director
2026-06-01
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MCCORMACK, Jeanette resigned
director
2026-03-19
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officers · TM01
2026-03-17
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MEYERHOFF, Matthew William resigned
director
2026-02-16
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officers · CH01
2026-02-16
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officers · CH01
2025-06-17
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accounts · AA
2025-04-14
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officers · AP01
2025-04-01
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MCCORMACK, Jeanette appointed
director
2025-02-20
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-08-29
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officers · TM01
2024-08-26
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MULVANEY, John resigned
director
2024-07-31
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accounts · AA
2024-01-29
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officers · TM01
2024-01-26
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LIDDELL, Andrew resigned
director
2023-10-05
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officers · TM01
2023-09-29
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ROBERTSON, Jodi resigned
director
2023-06-28
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accounts · AA
2023-02-09
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officers · CH01
2023-02-09
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2023-02-09
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2023-02-09
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officers · AP01
2023-02-09
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officers · AP01
2023-01-31
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DEWAR, Colin appointed
director
2023-01-31
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TEVEN, Heather Rebecca appointed
director
2023-01-31
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MULVANEY, John appointed
director
2023-01-31
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ROBERTSON, Jodi appointed
director
2022-12-08
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officers · TM01
2022-12-07
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GORDON, James Stewart Thomas resigned
director
2022-09-22
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-20
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O'NEILL, Bernard James resigned
director
2022-09-17
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CALLAGHAN, Stephanie resigned
director
2022-07-22
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MEYERHOFF, Matthew William appointed
director
2022-07-15
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O'NEILL, Bernard James appointed
director
2022-07-15
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REID, William resigned
director
2021-04-20
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CALPIN, Mark Andrew Benedict resigned
director
2020-10-07
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THOMAS-HARLEY, Malcolm Mcgeoch appointed
secretary
2020-10-07
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WALKER, Gareth Wyn resigned
secretary
2019-11-19
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LIDDELL, Andrew appointed
director
2019-09-09
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MULLANEY, Kathryn resigned
director
2019-06-01
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CALLAGHAN, Stephanie appointed
director
2019-05-08
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MULLANEY, Kathryn appointed
director
2019-01-16
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MCDERMENT, Anne Lundie resigned
director
2019-01-16
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WHEATLEY, Lewis Scott resigned
director
2018-12-10
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ANDERSON, Colin resigned
director
2018-08-22
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KEENEY, Caroline Anne resigned
director
2018-06-05
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HAMILTON, Lesley Margaret resigned
director

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Owner dependency

55/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

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 14 years.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

2 director resignations in last 12 months

medium

Multiple recent departures can indicate governance disagreement, succession event, or preparation for sale/stress.

Evidence: MCCORMACK, Jeanette resigned 2026-06-01; MEYERHOFF, Matthew William resigned 2026-03-17

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated2012-10-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC94110 — Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Registered office

C/O J. Watson Scott & Co Mcadam House

1 Cadzow Lane

Hamilton

South Lanarkshire

ML3 6AY

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-29

Last: 2025-10-15