MACSCOTT BOND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC054745 · ltd · incorporated 1973-12-17

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

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

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 28120

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

28220SIC 28220
77390Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

22 officers (6 active, 22 linked, 18 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

141 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

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	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	12	1100

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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 address
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (52 events)Click to expand

2026-01-29
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accounts · AA
2026-01-09
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address · AD01
2025-02-24
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officers · TM01
2025-02-23
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VENMAN, Marion Shepherd resigned
director
2025-01-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-05-07
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officers · AP01
2024-05-02
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-02
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-01
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DAVIDSON, Gary Alan appointed
director
2024-05-01
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WADDELL, Andrew Alan Wallace appointed
director
2024-05-01
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VENMAN, Marion Shepherd appointed
director
2024-02-29
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-01-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-12-05
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-24
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WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace resigned
director
2023-01-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-01-06
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-12-31
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SHANKS, Brian resigned
director
2021-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-01-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-12-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-12-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2018-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-03-30
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GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. resigned
director
2017-11-24
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SHANKS, Brian appointed
director
2017-11-13
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PLOWMAN, Alistair John resigned
director
2017-03-31
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MILROY, William Louis appointed
director
2015-12-18
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MERRITT, George Moore resigned
director
2010-11-01
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WADDELL, Graham Herbert Wallace appointed
director
2009-12-18
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DEREHAM, Orme Giles resigned
director
2009-12-18
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PRENTER, Patrick Robert resigned
director
2009-12-18
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THOMSON, Balfour resigned
director
2008-01-24
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MARSH, William Paul appointed
director
2008-01-24
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MERRITT, George Moore appointed
director
2008-01-24
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PLOWMAN, Alistair John appointed
director
2001-01-01
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PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
secretary
2001-01-01
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MORTON FRASER resigned
corporate-secretary
2001-01-01
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BIRD, Robert resigned
director
2001-01-01
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CAMPION, Gordon Pearson resigned
director
2001-01-01
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CRAIG, Thomas Moodie resigned
director
2001-01-01
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MARSH, William Paul resigned
director
2001-01-01
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THOMSON, Balfour appointed
director
1998-03-27
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DEREHAM, Orme Giles appointed
director
1997-03-27
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MARSH, William Paul appointed
director
1995-09-29
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CAMPION, Gordon Pearson appointed
director
1992-11-20
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LUCAS, Kathleen Margaret Ann resigned
secretary
1992-11-20
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MORTON FRASER appointed
corporate-secretary
1991-03-22
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PRENTER, Richard Gibson Scott appointed
director
1990-07-27
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GILCHRIST, Andrew Kirkwood Rae resigned
director
1990-07-27
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GRANT, Ronald Arthur, Mr. appointed
director

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Owner dependency

65/100

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 70 — succession pressure is live.

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 70 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

Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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MACSCOTT BOND LIMITED

This company · SC054745

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
Mactaggart Scott (Holdings) 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

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

Incorporated1973-12-17

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC28120 — SIC 28120

Registered office

9 Haymarket Square Mactaggart Scott And Co Ltd

C/O Morton Fraser Mac Roberts Ws

Edinburgh

Midlothian

EH3 8RY

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-06

Last: 2025-11-22