CADENHEAD RETAIL LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

SC677401 · ltd · incorporated 2020-10-13

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 · medium confidence

Mixed signals — 1 changes over 30 days, no clear direction yet.

· Filings: 23 → 24

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 5.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

↑Filings: 23 → 24

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 Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 47250

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 5.3y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 5.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

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

Directors & officers

11 officers (8 active, 11 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

24 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

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.

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	2025-07-31	2023-07-31
Average employees	18	2000

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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accounts · AA
2025-04-09
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accounts · AA
2024-03-20
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accounts · AA
2023-08-23
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · AP01
2023-08-22
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officers · TM01
2023-08-21
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CLAPPERTON, Neil appointed
director
2023-08-21
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FAWCETT, Hannah appointed
director
2023-08-21
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KELLY, Stephen appointed
director
2023-08-21
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REDPATH, George Christopher appointed
director
2023-08-21
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ROSS, Findlay Thomas appointed
director
2023-08-21
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WATSON, Ranald James appointed
director
2023-08-21
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MURRAY, Alan Campbell resigned
director
2023-08-17
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officers · TM01
2023-08-05
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WRIGHT, Hedley Gordon resigned
director
2023-03-10
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accounts · AA
2023-02-20
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officers · TM01
2022-12-01
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IVERS, Sean Dominic resigned
director
2022-03-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-03-03
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mortgage · MR01
2021-02-26
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
2020-11-27
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accounts · AA01
2020-10-23
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officers · AP03
2020-10-13
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Company incorporated
As CADENHEAD RETAIL LIMITED
2020-10-13
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CAMPBELL, Stuart Alexander appointed
secretary
2020-10-13
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MCAULAY, Linda appointed
director
2020-10-13
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IVERS, Sean Dominic appointed
director
2020-10-13
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MURRAY, Alan Campbell appointed
director
2020-10-13
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WRIGHT, Hedley Gordon appointed
director
2020-10-13
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incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

55/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — succession pressure is live.

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 90 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.)

Group structure

J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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CADENHEAD RETAIL LIMITED

This company · SC677401

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
J & A Mitchell And Co Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	13/10/2020

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2020-10-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47250 — SIC 47250

Registered office

9 Bolgam Street

Campbeltown

PA28 6HZ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-16

Last: 2025-12-02