PECHEURS ECOSSE LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
SC581815 · ltd · incorporated 2017-11-17
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 Dec 2025
Net worth
£-52.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
77/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03110
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
18 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
77/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £52,881
Net assets shrinking
Down £115,491 YoY
Cash YoY
+11%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£11k
↑ 11% YoY
Net Worth
-£53k
↓ 184% YoY
Current Assets
£29k
↓ 88% YoY
Current Liabilities
-£53k£7k£68k£128k£188k£248kDec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Total assets£-52.9k£65.5k
Current assets£28.9k£248.4k
Cash£10.6k£9.5k
Debtors£5.9k£6.4k
Net assets£-52.9k£62.6k

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
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (13 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-05-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-09-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-05-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-05-16
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2017-11-17
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    Company incorporated
    As PECHEURS ECOSSE LIMITED
  11. 2017-11-17
    HARDS, Richard John appointed
    director
  12. 2017-11-17
    JACK, George Alexander appointed
    director
  13. 2017-11-17
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    incorporation-company
    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 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 8 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 69. 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
R S Fishing Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
🏛️
Craigton Investments Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
PECHEURS ECOSSE LIMITED
This company · SC581815

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
R S Fishing Limited
Corporate entity
2550%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting17/11/2017
Craigton Investments Ltd
Corporate entity
2550%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting17/11/2017

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
Incorporated2017-11-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC03110 — SIC 03110

Registered office

The Lighthouse Craigton
North Kessock
Inverness
IV1 3YG
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-20
Last: 2025-11-06

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HARDS, Richard John
director · ~69y · appointed 2017-11-17
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Active
JACK, George Alexander
director · ~54y · appointed 2017-11-17
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Active

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Recent filings (18 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-05-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-05-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-07-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-05-22