FCE GROUP LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC527814 · ltd · incorporated 2016-02-24

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 steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

£6.15M

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of production holding companies

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle 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. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -83% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

28 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £6,146,222

Cash draining

Cash down 83% YoY

Cash YoY

-83%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£92k

↓ 83% YoY

Net Worth

£6.1m

↑ 19% YoY

Current Assets

£839k

↑ 29% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31
Total assets	£6.36M	£5.30M
Current assets	£838.7k	£649.6k
Cash	£91.7k	£526.9k
Debtors	£747.0k	£122.7k
Net assets	£6.15M	£5.15M

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 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand

2025-12-24
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accounts · AA
2025-01-09
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accounts · AA
2023-12-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-11
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-01-11
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-12-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-05
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officers · AP01
2021-04-20
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officers · AP01
2021-04-01
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RINTOUL, Nicholas appointed
director
2021-04-01
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RINTOUL, Robert appointed
director
2021-01-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-14
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2019-12-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-11-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-10-27
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accounts · AA
2017-05-03
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2017-04-18
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capital · SH01
2016-02-24
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Company incorporated
As FCE GROUP LTD
2016-02-24
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RINTOUL, John 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John Rintoul Individual · British · DOB 02/1958 · age 68	50–75%	50–75%	board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control	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

Incorporated2016-02-24

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC64202 — Activities of production holding companies

Registered office

Taylor Stiles Building

Methilhaven Road

Leven

Fife

KY8 3LA

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-09

Last: 2025-12-26

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

RINTOUL, John→

director · ~68y · appointed 2016-02-24

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Active

RINTOUL, Nicholas→

director · ~38y · appointed 2021-04-01

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Active

RINTOUL, Robert→

director · ~42y · appointed 2021-04-01

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Active

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Recent filings (28 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-12-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-01-09

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-01-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-12

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-01-04

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-12-13

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-01-11

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2022-01-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-01-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-12-10

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2021-10-05

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2021-04-20

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-01-21