NCS UTILITIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC513953 · ltd · incorporated 2015-08-25

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 Feb 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 36000

Sector: Water supply & waste

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. 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).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

15 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

30 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	2025-02-28	2024-02-28
Average employees	3	300

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2025-11-27
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accounts · AA
2024-11-26
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accounts · AA
2023-11-30
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accounts · AA
2022-11-30
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accounts · AA
2021-12-03
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accounts · AA
2021-02-03
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accounts · AA
2019-12-04
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accounts · AA
2018-12-04
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accounts · AA
2017-12-05
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accounts · AA
2017-05-06
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accounts · AA
2016-12-29
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accounts · AA01
2016-02-08
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capital · SH01
2016-02-08
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2016-01-19
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MCGRORY, James Mckenzie appointed
director
2016-01-19
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officers · AP01
2015-08-27
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HAYES, Michael appointed
secretary
2015-08-27
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HAYES, Michael appointed
director
2015-08-27
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NOLAN, Thomas Joseph appointed
director
2015-08-27
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DEANE, David William resigned
director
2015-08-27
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officers · TM01
2015-08-25
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Company incorporated
As NCS UTILITIES LIMITED
2015-08-25
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DEANE, David William 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

55/100

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.
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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Thomas Joseph Nolan Individual · British · DOB 12/1959 · age 67	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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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

Typeltd

Incorporated2015-08-25

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC36000 — SIC 36000

Registered office

65 Rodney Street

Glasgow

G4 9SQ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-30

Last made up to: 2025-02-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-07

Last: 2025-08-24

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

HAYES, Michael→

secretary · appointed 2015-08-27

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Active

HAYES, Michael→

director · ~57y · appointed 2015-08-27

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Active

MCGRORY, James Mckenzie→

director · ~65y · appointed 2016-01-19

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Active

NOLAN, Thomas Joseph→

director · ~67y · appointed 2015-08-27

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Active

DEANE, David William→

director · ~62y · appointed 2015-08-25 · resigned 2015-08-27

Resigned

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