PEREGRINE COMMERCE LTD

🌿Early-stageactive
SC741171 · ltd · incorporated 2022-08-13
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£13.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
70/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Advertising agencies
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with strong profile and acceptable with review structure.

Opportunity 70/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
8 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
70/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
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
Positive net assets
Net assets £13,243

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
£13k
Current Assets
£25k
Current Liabilities
£0£5k£10k£15k£20k£25kAug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Total assets£14.1k
Current assets£25.3k
Net assets£13.2k
Average employees0

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (8 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-01-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2025-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-13
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As PEREGRINE COMMERCE LTD
  6. 2022-08-13
    COWIE, Sean Robert Barbour appointed
    director
  7. 2022-08-13
    LEONARD, Benjamin James appointed
    director
  8. 2022-08-13
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

58/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.

Succession & seller-readiness

36/100
Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS
  • 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.

🏛️
Bee Commerce (Scotland) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
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Sc Publish Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
PEREGRINE COMMERCE LTD
This company · SC741171

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
Bee Commerce (Scotland) Limited
Corporate entity
2550%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control13/08/2022
Sc Publish Ltd
Corporate entity
2550%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control13/08/2022

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
Incorporated2022-08-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC73110 — Advertising agencies

Registered office

Neo Space
Neo House
Aberdeen
AB11 7LH
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-26
Last: 2025-08-12

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

COWIE, Sean Robert Barbour
director · ~32y · appointed 2022-08-13
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Active
LEONARD, Benjamin James
director · ~38y · appointed 2022-08-13
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Active

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Recent filings (8 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-02-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-01-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-18
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2022-08-13