S & C BICHAN LTD

🌿Early-stageactive

SC744246 · ltd · incorporated 2022-09-13

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 3.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒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: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

47990Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. 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 3.4y

75/100

ready

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

· Charge age ~3.4 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 2 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

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

9 filings

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

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	4	400

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (13 events)Click to expand

2025-12-09
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accounts · AA
2024-12-23
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accounts · AA
2023-11-20
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accounts · AA
2022-12-14
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mortgage · MR01
2022-12-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Virgin Money) (Company Number SC001111)
2022-09-13
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Company incorporated
As S & C BICHAN LTD
2022-09-13
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BAILEY, Kirsty Myrtle appointed
director
2022-09-13
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BICHAN, Catherine Mary appointed
director
2022-09-13
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BICHAN, David Christopher appointed
director
2022-09-13
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BICHAN, Scott Kieran appointed
director
2022-09-13
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BICHAN, Sydney John Eunson appointed
director
2022-09-13
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accounts · AA01
2022-09-13
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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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BICHAN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

20/100

No succession signal

No meaningful acquirability indicators from public data.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — BICHAN, David Christopher (same surname) appointed 2022-09-13. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David Christopher Bichan Individual · British · DOB 05/1978 · age 48	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	13/09/2022

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

Incorporated2022-09-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

The Office South Coldstream

Drumoak

Banchory

Aberdeenshire

AB31 5EL

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-26

Last: 2025-09-12