D. MCGHEE & SONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC028084 · ltd · incorporated 1950-12-30

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 67/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 5 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (57/100).

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Refinance opportunity

13 live charges · 5 lenders · oldest 29.9y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 29.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 5 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 50/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

13 charges (13/13 with lender, 13/13 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (7 active, 11 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

144 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.

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Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

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

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 £5,402,500

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	2025-08-02	2024-08-03
Profit before tax	£5.40M	—

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 (49 events)Click to expand

2026-03-09
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accounts · AA
2025-04-22
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accounts · AA
2025-01-06
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officers · CH01
2025-01-06
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officers · CH01
2025-01-06
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officers · CH01
2025-01-06
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officers · CH03
2024-12-23
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BLACOE, William George appointed
director
2024-12-23
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MACKENZIE, Aisling appointed
director
2024-12-23
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MCGHEE, Russell Ian appointed
director
2024-12-23
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officers · AP01
2024-12-23
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2024-12-23
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officers · AP01
2024-04-09
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accounts · AA
2023-03-24
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2021-12-23
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accounts · AA
2020-12-23
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accounts · AA
2020-04-30
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accounts · AA
2018-12-28
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accounts · AA
2018-05-14
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mortgage · MR01
2018-05-08
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Charge registered #15
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
2018-01-05
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accounts · AA
2007-09-07
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Charge registered #14
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2007-08-31
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Charge satisfied #12
2007-08-31
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Charge satisfied #1
2007-08-25
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Charge satisfied #11
2007-08-25
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Charge satisfied #2
2007-08-07
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Charge registered #13
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2006-01-18
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Charge registered #12
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2004-08-19
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Charge registered #11
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2004-06-04
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Charge satisfied #10
2003-07-07
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Charge satisfied #9
2002-10-28
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Charge registered #10
Lender: Food Investments Limited
1999-11-03
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Charge satisfied #6
1999-11-03
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Charge satisfied #5
1999-11-03
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Charge satisfied #4
1999-11-03
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Charge satisfied #3
1998-07-20
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Charge registered #9
Lender: Chancelot Mill Limited
1998-03-10
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Chancelot Mill Limited
1998-03-06
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Chancelot Mill Limited
1998-03-04
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Chancelot Mill Limited
1998-03-04
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Chancelot Mill Limited
1997-12-02
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1997-06-27
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MCGHEE, Kenneth Gavin resigned
director
1996-06-14
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1994-08-06
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MCGHEE, Gavin Haig resigned
director
1992-11-04
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MCGHEE, Robert Calder resigned
secretary
1991-11-14
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MCGHEE, Robert Calder resigned
director
1991-11-04
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MCGHEE, Ian Calder appointed
secretary
1950-12-30
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Company incorporated
As D. MCGHEE & SONS LIMITED

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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MCGHEE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Mcghee Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mcghee Group Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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D. MCGHEE & SONS LIMITED

This company · SC028084

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
Mcghee Group Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 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

Incorporated1950-12-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC10710 — Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Registered office

10 Keppochhill Drive

M8 Food Park

Glasgow

G21 1HX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-08-02

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-25

Last: 2025-06-11