HIGHLAND SPORTS SERVICE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC523525 · ltd · incorporated 2016-01-05

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to May 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 47640

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

26 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

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

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-05-30	2024-05-30
Average employees	0	0

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

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1 signal 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand

2026-02-27
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2025-02-27
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accounts · AA
2024-02-28
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accounts · AA
2023-02-28
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accounts · AA
2022-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-05-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-02-23
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address · AD01
2019-02-28
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accounts · AA
2018-01-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2018-01-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2017-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-09-25
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2017-03-29
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accounts · AA01
2016-01-05
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Company incorporated
As HIGHLAND SPORTS SERVICE LIMITED
2016-01-05
➕
MCCORMICK, Michael appointed
director
2016-01-05
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MCCORMICK, Michelle Jane appointed
director

Owner dependency

86/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 10 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Michael Mccormick Individual · Scottish · DOB 05/1953 · age 73	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mrs Michelle Jane Mccormick Individual · British · DOB 05/1972 · age 54	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2016-01-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47640 — SIC 47640

Registered office

Summit House

4-5 Mitchell Street

Edinburgh

EH6 7BD

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-18

Last: 2026-01-04

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

MCCORMICK, Michael→

director · ~73y · appointed 2016-01-05

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Active

MCCORMICK, Michelle Jane→

director · ~54y · appointed 2016-01-05

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