DURACARE LIMITED

📈Growthactive

SC550705 · ltd · incorporated 2016-11-21

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 5.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46760

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: conservative operator with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 5.5y

95/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 5.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

8 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

41 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £2,703,161

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	£2.70M	£1.33M
Average employees	5900	5100

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.

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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 (33 events)Click to expand

2025-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-16
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capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2025-01-14
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2024-12-30
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-12-24
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-10-28
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LINDBERG, David resigned
director
2024-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-29
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-06-29
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-01
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LINDBERG, Margaret resigned
director
2022-12-31
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LINDBERG, Jennifer resigned
director
2022-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-28
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2021-10-28
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Charge satisfied #1
2021-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-19
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mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-10-13
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2020-07-24
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2019-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-02-04
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2018-12-01
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LINDBERG, Jennifer appointed
director
2018-01-01
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LINDBERG, Margaret appointed
director
2016-12-20
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LINDBERG, Andrew appointed
director
2016-12-20
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LINDBERG, Ian appointed
director
2016-12-20
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LINDBERG, Murray appointed
director
2016-12-20
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MANN, Paul appointed
director
2016-12-20
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LINDBERG, David appointed
director
2016-12-20
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LINDBERG, Margaret resigned
director
2016-11-21
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Company incorporated
As DURACARE LIMITED
2016-11-21
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LINDBERG, Bernard Michael appointed
director
2016-11-21
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LINDBERG, Margaret appointed
director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.

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 Bernard Michael Lindberg Individual · British · DOB 03/1950 · age 76	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	21/11/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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GMC CORSEHILL LTD.→ SC122617 · est 1990 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	36y	—	—
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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2016-11-21

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC46760 — SIC 46760

Registered office

4 Symington Place

Riverside Business Park

Irvine

North Ayrshire

KA11 5DE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-04

Last: 2025-11-20

Officers (5 active · 4 resigned)

LINDBERG, Andrew→

director · ~55y · appointed 2016-12-20

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

LINDBERG, Bernard Michael→

director · ~76y · appointed 2016-11-21

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Active

LINDBERG, Ian→

director · ~45y · appointed 2016-12-20

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

LINDBERG, Murray→

director · ~42y · appointed 2016-12-20

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MANN, Paul→

director · ~53y · appointed 2016-12-20

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Active

LINDBERG, David→

director · ~50y · appointed 2016-12-20 · resigned 2024-10-28

Resigned

LINDBERG, Jennifer→

director · ~57y · appointed 2018-12-01 · resigned 2022-12-31

Resigned

LINDBERG, Margaret→

director · ~79y · appointed 2018-01-01 · resigned 2023-01-01

Resigned

LINDBERG, Margaret→

director · ~79y · appointed 2016-11-21 · resigned 2016-12-20

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	A registered charge	—	13/10/2020	28/10/2021

Recent filings (41 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-12-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2025-09-29

capital-return-purchase-own-shares

capital · SH03

2025-07-16

capital-cancellation-shares

capital · SH06

2025-01-14

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-07

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-12-30

resolution

resolution · RESOLUTIONS

2024-12-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2024-09-30

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-12-22

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

accounts · AA

2023-09-28

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2023-06-29

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2023-06-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-11-23

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

accounts · AA

2022-09-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-11-30