IOLLA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC464634 · ltd · incorporated 2013-11-27
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 6.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). 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 6.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 6.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
16 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
40 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
—
Current Assets
—
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
Metric2025-03-302024-03-30
Profit before tax—£-167.6k
Average employees605600

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2025-12-12
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-12-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-03-21
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2024-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-03-01
    📄
    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  8. 2024-02-29
    ➖
    HMS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  9. 2023-12-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-03-16
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2021-12-16
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-02-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-05-07
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  15. 2020-04-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
  16. 2019-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-12-03
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2018-10-30
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2015-08-27
    ➕
    HUNTER, Stefan Millar appointed
    director
  20. 2015-08-27
    ➕
    MANSON, Alan Graeme appointed
    director
  21. 2014-07-01
    ➕
    HMS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2013-11-27
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As IOLLA LIMITED
  23. 2013-11-27
    ➕
    MCGUIRE, Brian Stephen appointed
    director

Owner dependency

65/100
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 67 — 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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 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.)

Group structure

Iolla Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Iolla Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
⬇
IOLLA LIMITED
This company · SC464634

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Iolla Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2013-11-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC96090 — Other service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Unit M7 Rosemount Business Park
143 Charles Street
Glasgow
G21 2QA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-30
Last made up to: 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-24
Last: 2025-12-10

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

HUNTER, Stefan Millar→
director · ~35y · appointed 2015-08-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MANSON, Alan Graeme→
director · ~67y · appointed 2015-08-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCGUIRE, Brian Stephen→
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-11-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HMS SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2014-07-01 · resigned 2024-02-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
A registered charge—24/04/2020—
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Recent filings (40 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-04
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-03-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-03-16