SCOTLEE COMMERCIALS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC521549 · ltd · incorporated 2015-12-01
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
33 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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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
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees5500

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2025-12-17
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2025-12-17
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2025-12-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-08-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-04-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  11. 2021-04-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2020-08-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-08-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-02-20
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  15. 2018-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-08-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-12-07
    ➕
    ENGLISH, John Guthrie appointed
    director
  18. 2015-12-07
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    ENGLISH, John Guthrie resigned
    director
  19. 2015-12-01
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SCOTLEE COMMERCIALS LIMITED
  20. 2015-12-01
    ➕
    GILBERT, Glen Kerr appointed
    director
  21. 2015-12-01
    ➕
    LEESON, James Flannigan appointed
    director
  22. 2015-12-01
    ➕
    LEESON, Kirsty Helen 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
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 68. 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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr James Flannigan Leeson
Individual · British · DOB 08/1958 · age 68
25–50%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Miss Kirsty Helen Leesonceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Glen Kerr Gilbertceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2015-12-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

Scotlee Transport Services Portland Place
Heatherhouse Industrial Estate
Irvine
KA12 8LW
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

GILBERT, Glen Kerr→
director · ~52y · appointed 2015-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LEESON, James Flannigan→
director · ~68y · appointed 2015-12-01
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Active
LEESON, Kirsty Helen→
director · ~40y · appointed 2015-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ENGLISH, John Guthrie→
director · ~72y · appointed 2015-12-07 · resigned 2015-12-07
Resigned

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Recent filings (33 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-12-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-12-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-16
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-04-19