C S MACHINERY SALES LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC485757 · ltd · incorporated 2014-09-02
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 11.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£521.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46140
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 11.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
41 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £521,510
Cash YoY
-8%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£639k
↓ 7.9% YoY
Net Worth
£522k
↑ 29% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£139k£278k£416k£555k£694kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Cash£639.2k£694.0k
Net assets£521.5k£405.8k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-24
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    move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
    address · AD04
  3. 2025-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-09-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-02-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-02-16
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  7. 2023-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-01-12
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  9. 2023-01-04
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  10. 2023-01-04
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2022-11-30
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    SHAW, Calum resigned
    director
  12. 2022-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-11-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  15. 2020-04-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-01-08
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2019-11-27
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    INNES, Angus Macrae appointed
    director
  18. 2019-10-29
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    second-filing-capital-allotment-shares
    capital · RP04SH01
  19. 2019-09-06
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  20. 2019-09-06
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    capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
    capital · SH10
  21. 2015-05-01
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 2014-09-02
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    Company incorporated
    As C S MACHINERY SALES LTD
  23. 2014-09-02
    ➕
    CAMPBELL, Alan appointed
    director
  24. 2014-09-02
    ➕
    SHAW, Calum 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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

Mhor Properties Limited holds majority control (50-75%). Likely parent but not wholly-owned.

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Mhor Properties Limited
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares
majority
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C S MACHINERY SALES LTD
This company · SC485757

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mhor Properties Limited
Corporate entity
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% 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
Incorporated2014-09-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46140 — SIC 46140

Registered office

17b Henderson Drive
Inverness
IV1 1TR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-15
Last: 2025-09-01

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

CAMPBELL, Alan→
director · ~66y · appointed 2014-09-02
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Active
INNES, Angus Macrae→
director · ~37y · appointed 2019-11-27
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Active
SHAW, Calum→
director · ~61y · appointed 2014-09-02 · resigned 2022-11-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—01/05/2015—
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Recent filings (41 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-02
move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
address · AD04
2025-06-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-19
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-31
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2023-01-12
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-01-04
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-25