SHETLAND CLEANING SERVICES (LERWICK) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC091490 · ltd · incorporated 1985-02-04

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 36.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other cleaning services

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (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 36.9y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 36.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (70/100)

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

6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

101 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-31
Average employees	25

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-04-16
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2025-06-12
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2025-06-12
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2025-04-22
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2025-03-03
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ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair resigned
director
2024-04-24
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accounts · AA
2023-04-26
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2022-04-29
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accounts · AA
2021-11-18
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address · AD01
2021-11-18
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2021-11-18
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officers · TM02
2021-11-18
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officers · AP01
2021-11-18
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officers · AP01
2021-11-05
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RABHI, Barbara Ina appointed
secretary
2021-11-05
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RABHI, Barbara Ina appointed
director
2021-11-05
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TAIT, Helen Torance Cooper appointed
director
2021-11-05
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ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair resigned
secretary
2021-04-29
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2020-04-14
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2019-05-03
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2018-05-01
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1996-01-09
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Charge satisfied #1
1989-07-13
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Tsb Bank Scotland PLC
1985-02-04
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Company incorporated
As SHETLAND CLEANING SERVICES (LERWICK) LIMITED

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

+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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
Mr Robert Cumming Robertson Individual · British · DOB 01/1954 · age 72	50–75%	50–75%	board controlsig. influence50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest	30/12/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Anna May Sinclair Robertsonceased 03/03/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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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

Incorporated1985-02-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC81299 — Other cleaning services

Registered office

10 Burgadale

Brae

Shetland

ZE2 9SR

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-15

Last: 2026-04-01

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

RABHI, Barbara Ina→

secretary · appointed 2021-11-05

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Active

RABHI, Barbara Ina→

director · ~51y · appointed 2021-11-05

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Active

ROBERTSON, Robert Cumming→

director · ~72y

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Active

TAIT, Helen Torance Cooper→

director · ~51y · appointed 2021-11-05

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Active

ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair→

secretary · resigned 2021-11-05

Resigned

ROBERTSON, Anna May Sinclair→

director · ~75y · resigned 2025-03-03

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Tsb Bank Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	13/07/1989	09/01/1996

Recent filings (101 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-04-16

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-01

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-06-24

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2025-06-12

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2025-06-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-04-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-06-21

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-04-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-21

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-04-26

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-06-22

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2022-04-29

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2021-11-18

appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date

officers · AP03

2021-11-18

termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM02

2021-11-18