HEATHERGEMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC047180 · ltd · incorporated 1970-01-05

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 37.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£130.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). 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 37.6y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 37.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

102 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

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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £130,342

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£130k

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31
Total assets	£130.3k
Debtors	£130.3k
Net assets	£130.3k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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 (30 events)Click to expand

2025-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-02-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-11-01
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MARTIN, Lynsey appointed
director
2024-06-12
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-05-31
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-05-31
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-04-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-02-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-02-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-02-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-03-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-03-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-03-09
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BROWN, Craig Ian Gilbert appointed
director
2020-03-09
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BROWN, Stuart David appointed
director
2020-02-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-02-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2018-10-23
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2018-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2010-10-28
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Charge satisfied #1
2007-10-26
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BROWN, Marjorie Fleming appointed
director
2007-10-15
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BUYERS, Mary Fleming resigned
director
2007-10-14
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KERR, Frances resigned
director
1992-12-01
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BROWN, Marjorie Fleming appointed
secretary
1992-12-01
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BUYERS, Mary Fleming resigned
secretary
1992-11-14
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BUYERS, Charles Ian resigned
director
1991-03-06
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BUYERS, Charles Stuart appointed
director
1988-09-20
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1970-01-05
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Company incorporated
As HEATHERGEMS LIMITED

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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 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

Charles Buyers & Co. Ltd. holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Charles Buyers & Co. Ltd.

Corporate parent

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HEATHERGEMS LIMITED

This company · SC047180

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Charles Buyers & Co. Ltd. Corporate entity	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	31/12/2023

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mrs Marjorie Fleming Brownceased 31/12/2023· significant influence
Mr Charles Stuart Buyersceased 31/12/2023· significant influence

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1970-01-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Unit 37

Kyle Road Industrial Estate

Irvine

Ayrshire

KA12 8LE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-14

Last: 2025-05-31