ANDREW WILSON & SONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC019360 · ltd · incorporated 1936-10-17

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 17.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Event catering activities

Sector: Accommodation & food service

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

77390Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.2y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 17.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

120 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Average employees	1000	1200

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

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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

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 persons-with-significant-control

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 persons-with-significant-control

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-03-03
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mortgage · MR01
2026-02-18
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Holyrood Care (Edinburgh) LTD
2026-02-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-15
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officers · CH01
2024-07-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-07-15
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officers · CH01
2024-07-15
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officers · CH01
2024-07-15
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-07-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-27
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accounts · AA
2020-11-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-09-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-10-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-10-23
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officers · CH01
2019-07-03
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accounts · AA
2014-06-13
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LEES, David William Robert resigned
director
2009-02-02
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2000-01-19
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LEES, Andrew John appointed
director
2000-01-19
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LEES, David William Robert appointed
director
1990-10-15
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WILSON, Jeannie Morton resigned
director
1936-10-17
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Company incorporated
As ANDREW WILSON & SONS LIMITED

Owner dependency

88/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "WILSON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 90 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Robert Simpson Millar Wilson Individual · Scottish · DOB 02/1948 · age 78	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · firm interest	27/05/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Helen Irvine Leesceased 18/01/2026· 25-50% shares

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

Incorporated1936-10-17

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC56210 — Event catering activities

Registered office

"St Ann's Mount" 39 Spring Gardens

Abbeyhill

Edinburgh

EH8 8HR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-02

Last: 2026-01-19