MEDISCAN DEVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC444932 · ltd · incorporated 2013-03-12

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

28 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	0	0

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 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand

2025-12-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-03-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-03-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2019-03-21
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2018-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2018-01-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-01-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2016-03-16
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annual-return · AR01
2015-12-01
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accounts · AA
2015-03-12
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annual-return · AR01
2013-03-12
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Company incorporated
As MEDISCAN DEVICES LTD
2013-03-12
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HUNTER, Scott Seagrave Masson appointed
director
2013-03-12
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MCVEY, David John appointed
director

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 13 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100

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 73 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 13 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David John Mcvey Individual · British · DOB 08/1953 · age 73	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Scott Seagrave Masson Hunter Individual · British · DOB 10/1967 · age 59	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2013-03-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

216 West George Street

Glasgow

G2 2PQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-26

Last: 2026-03-12

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HUNTER, Scott Seagrave Masson→

director · ~59y · appointed 2013-03-12

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Active

MCVEY, David John→

director · ~73y · appointed 2013-03-12

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