HOGGS OF FIFE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC015281 · ltd · incorporated 1928-10-13

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 48.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£11.43M

year to May 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Wholesale of clothing and footwear

Sector: Wholesale & retail

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 48.2y

70/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 48.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — 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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

23 officers (9 active, 23 linked, 19 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

130 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,499,318

Turnover YoY

+3%

Year on year

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	2024-05-31	2023-05-31
Turnover	£11.43M	£11.08M
Gross profit	£5.70M	£5.46M
Operating profit	£1.42M	£1.53M
Profit before tax	£1.50M	£1.54M
Average employees	5200	5100

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (54 events)Click to expand

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officers · CH01
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officers · CH01
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officers · CH01
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officers · AP01
2025-02-13
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accounts · AA
2025-02-07
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CONDIE, Fiona Margaret appointed
director
2025-02-07
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LAMOND, John Stewart appointed
director
2024-02-27
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accounts · AA
2023-09-05
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officers · AP01
2023-08-23
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JEPSON, Stephen James appointed
director
2023-02-24
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accounts · AA
2022-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-03
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officers · AP01
2021-08-01
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TAYLOR, Scott appointed
director
2021-07-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2021-07-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-05-31
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accounts · AA
2020-02-27
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accounts · AA
2020-01-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2018-12-19
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mortgage · MR01
2018-12-07
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
2018-08-31
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HOUSTON, Donald Robert John resigned
director
2018-08-01
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GIBSON, Anne Margaret appointed
director
2018-01-01
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LANG, Amanda Elizabeth appointed
director
2016-05-24
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Charge satisfied #1
2016-01-18
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LAMOND, John Stewart appointed
secretary
2016-01-18
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MCQUAID, James resigned
secretary
2014-10-01
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MCQUAID, James appointed
secretary
2014-09-30
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SLEIGHT, Colin Miller resigned
secretary
2014-09-30
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SLEIGHT, Colin Miller resigned
director
2006-12-07
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GIBSON, Robert Henderson Hogg resigned
director
2004-06-21
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MCLAREN, Caroline Mary appointed
director
2004-06-21
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HOGG, Ronald Niven resigned
director
2002-04-08
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HOUSTON, Donald Robert John appointed
director
1999-08-01
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PORTER, Derek John resigned
director
1998-04-23
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REILLY, Andrew resigned
director
1997-11-12
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PORTER, Derek John appointed
director
1997-02-20
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SLEIGHT, Colin Miller appointed
director
1997-01-14
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CONNOR, Samuel resigned
director
1996-10-17
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SLEIGHT, Colin Miller appointed
secretary
1996-06-24
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TYNDALL, Gordon Millar resigned
secretary
1996-06-24
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TYNDALL, Gordon Millar resigned
director
1996-05-06
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REILLY, Andrew appointed
director
1996-03-25
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SHARP, Neil Muir resigned
director
1996-01-15
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HOGG, Ronald Niven appointed
director
1994-03-01
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SHARP, Neil Muir appointed
director
1994-02-28
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HOGG, Ronald Niven resigned
director
1992-10-21
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CONNOR, Samuel appointed
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

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

Hoggs Of Fife (Holdings) Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Hoggs Of Fife (Holdings) Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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HOGGS OF FIFE LIMITED

This company · SC015281

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
Hoggs Of Fife (Holdings) Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/01/2020

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Robert Fettes Gibsonceased 06/01/2020· 25-50% shares

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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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1928-10-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC46420 — Wholesale of clothing and footwear

Registered office

Eden Valley Business Park

Cupar

Fife

KY15 4RB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-05-31

Last made up to: 2024-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-26

Last: 2025-07-12