STYLES AHEAD (CD) LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

SC660014 · ltd · incorporated 2020-04-28

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

£7.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

77/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hairdressing and other beauty treatment

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

14 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

77/100Strong

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £7,306

Net assets shrinking

Down £1,218 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£7k

↓ 14% YoY

Current Assets

£1k

↓ 13% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-05	2024-04-05
Total assets	£7.3k	£8.5k
Current assets	£1.1k	£1.2k
Net assets	£7.3k	£8.5k

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (12 events)Click to expand

2025-05-30
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2024-06-10
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2023-05-24
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accounts · AA
2022-07-11
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accounts · AA
2021-06-25
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accounts · AA
2021-03-27
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accounts · AA01
2021-03-26
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officers · CH01
2021-03-26
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2020-04-28
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Company incorporated
As STYLES AHEAD (CD) LIMITED
2020-04-28
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RUSSELL, Alexander Henry appointed
director
2020-04-28
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SIMEY, Gill appointed
director
2020-04-28
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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 85 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 6 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Gill Simey Individual · Scottish · DOB 09/1975 · age 51	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	28/04/2020

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

Incorporated2020-04-28

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC96020 — Hairdressing and other beauty treatment

Registered office

3 Fairgreen Court

Rhonehouse

Castle Douglas

Dumfries And Galloway

DG7 1SA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-04

Last made up to: 2025-04-05

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-10

Last: 2025-04-26

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

RUSSELL, Alexander Henry→

director · ~85y · appointed 2020-04-28

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SIMEY, Gill→

director · ~51y · appointed 2020-04-28

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