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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 37.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No material changes in the last 90 days.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒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 37.8y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 37.8 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

103 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 · 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (29 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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officers · AP01
2024-11-01
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MARTIN, Lynsey appointed
director
2024-06-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-05-31
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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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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
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: 2027-06-14

Last: 2026-05-31