SHETLAND NEWS ONLINE LTD

🏛️Establishedactive

SC566561 · ltd · incorporated 2017-05-19

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

77/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: News agency activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

23 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

77/100Strong

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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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	5	400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2025-12-17
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accounts · AA
2024-12-04
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accounts · AA
2023-12-18
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accounts · AA
2022-12-15
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accounts · AA
2021-12-20
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accounts · AA
2021-02-15
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accounts · AA
2019-12-04
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accounts · AA
2019-03-14
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accounts · AA01
2018-12-21
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accounts · AA
2018-11-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2018-11-15
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2018-11-01
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DUERNBERGER, Pia Martina appointed
director
2018-11-01
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officers · AP01
2018-04-05
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accounts · AA01
2017-05-19
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Company incorporated
As SHETLAND NEWS ONLINE LTD
2017-05-19
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MARTER, Hans Juergen appointed
director
2017-05-19
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incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 9 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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 Hans Juergen Marter Individual · German · DOB 11/1960 · age 66	50–75%	50–75%	board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control	19/05/2017
Ms Pia Martina Duernberger Individual · Irish · DOB 01/1961 · age 65	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	01/11/2018

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

Incorporated2017-05-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC63910 — News agency activities

Registered office

The Knowes

Lunning

Vidlin

Shetland

ZE2 9QB

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last: 2026-05-17

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

DUERNBERGER, Pia Martina→

director · ~65y · appointed 2018-11-01

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MARTER, Hans Juergen→

director · ~66y · appointed 2017-05-19

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