ABBEY TOOL AND GAUGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC498955 · ltd · incorporated 2015-02-26
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 closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy cheaply — 3 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.
  • · Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • · Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • · Bankability: 65 → 75
  • · Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 0 negative.

  • ↑Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • ↑Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • ↑Bankability: 65 → 75
  • ·Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 9.1y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
31 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees35003500

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-12
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  2. 2026-05-12
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    legacy
    miscellaneous · RPCH01
  3. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-09-26
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    mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
    mortgage · 466(Scot)
  5. 2025-09-26
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    mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
    mortgage · 466(Scot)
  6. 2025-09-24
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  7. 2025-09-22
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance Limited
  8. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-10-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-10-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-05-17
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2017-05-15
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  18. 2017-05-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  19. 2017-05-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2015-02-26
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    Company incorporated
    As ABBEY TOOL AND GAUGE LIMITED
  21. 2015-02-26
    ➕
    REID, Alistair Welsh appointed
    director
  22. 2015-02-26
    ➕
    REID, Iain Cummings appointed
    director

Owner dependency

79/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

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 64. 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Alistair Welsh Reid
Individual · British · DOB 06/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Iain Cummings Reid
Individual · British · DOB 01/1966 · age 60
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2015-02-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Pinnaclehill
Industrial Estate
Kelso
Roxburghshire
TD5 8AT
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-07
Last: 2026-02-21

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

REID, Alistair Welsh→
director · ~64y · appointed 2015-02-26
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Active
REID, Iain Cummings→
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-02-26
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance Limited
A registered charge—22/09/2025—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property15/05/2017—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—08/05/2017—
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Recent filings (31 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-09
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-05-12
legacy
miscellaneous · RPCH01
2026-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
mortgage · 466(Scot)
2025-09-26
mortgage-alter-floating-charge-with-number
mortgage · 466(Scot)
2025-09-26
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-24