KETTLE PRODUCE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC097725 · ltd · incorporated 1986-03-07

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 40.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to May 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10390

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

10850Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 40.1y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 40.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

26 officers (9 active, 26 linked, 21 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

165 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-06-01
Average employees	98700	92000

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

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 4 officers
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (60 events)Click to expand

2026-02-12
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accounts · AA
2026-02-11
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officers · AP01
2026-02-03
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DIGNAN, Charles Francis appointed
director
2026-01-13
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-13
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officers · CH01
2025-11-27
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officers · TM01
2025-11-26
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BRIERLEY, Helen resigned
director
2025-01-30
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accounts · AA
2024-06-05
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officers · AP01
2024-05-29
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DEVINE, Alan appointed
director
2024-05-13
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-13
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-02-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-11-23
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officers · AP01
2023-11-22
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BRIERLEY, Helen appointed
director
2023-10-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-09-29
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MACGREGOR, Calum resigned
director
2023-02-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-12-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-23
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accounts · AA
2021-09-15
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officers · TM01
2021-09-10
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ORR, Christopher, Commercial Director resigned
director
2021-05-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2020-02-25
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accounts · AA
2019-07-01
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CAMPBELL, Dominic James appointed
director
2017-09-20
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MACGREGOR, Calum appointed
director
2017-08-01
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MCINTYRE, Elspeth resigned
director
2017-04-28
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BRIERLEY, Helen resigned
director
2016-02-14
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SAMSON, Charles Buchanan resigned
director
2014-10-01
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HORSBURGH, Jacqueline Annie Gifford appointed
director
2012-11-19
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ORR, Christopher, Commercial Director appointed
director
2012-11-16
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ANDREW, Peter John resigned
director
2012-05-07
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MCINTYRE, Clouston Charles resigned
director
2012-04-02
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ANDREW, Peter John appointed
director
2011-11-01
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BRIERLEY, Helen appointed
director
2011-08-31
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LAING, Andrew James resigned
director
2010-05-29
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SAMSON, Alec Prentice resigned
director
2005-09-01
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MILNE, Trevor James appointed
director
2005-09-01
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WHYTE, Pearson Mcadam Muir appointed
director
2000-09-26
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Charge satisfied #4
2000-06-23
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MURPHY, Andrew Blyth resigned
director
2000-04-01
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MCINTYRE, Susan Jane appointed
director
1998-12-31
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DENTON, Alban Bede resigned
director
1997-12-04
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Charge registered #4
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1996-05-01
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LAING, Andrew James appointed
director
1996-05-01
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MURPHY, Andrew Blyth appointed
director
1995-05-01
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WAUGH, Elizabeth Ann appointed
director
1994-12-30
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WAUGH, Elizabeth Ann appointed
secretary
1994-12-30
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WRIGHT, Heather May resigned
secretary
1994-12-30
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WRIGHT, Heather May resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 60 events

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

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — 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 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 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

Kettle Share Option Trust holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Kettle Share Option Trust

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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KETTLE PRODUCE LIMITED

This company · SC097725

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Miss Susan Jane Mcintyre Individual · British · DOB 12/1968 · age 58	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · trust interest	01/06/2016
Kettle Share Option Trust Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	01/06/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

The Estate Of The Late Elizabeth Mcintyreceased 12/10/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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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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

Incorporated1986-03-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC10390 — SIC 10390

Registered office

Balmalcolm Farm

Cupar

Fife

KY15 7TJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-01

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-25

Last: 2026-01-11