ARDMEL GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC114289 · ltd · incorporated 1988-11-01
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
92 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2023Jun 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-06-302023-06-30
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2024-11-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  2. 2023-11-10
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  3. 2022-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-06-01
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  5. 2022-05-06
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    BARR, Robert Douglas resigned
    secretary
  6. 2022-02-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-11-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-03-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-05-10
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  13. 2016-04-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-05-08
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-04-01
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2004-03-01
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    FERNANDO, Shantha Ruwan appointed
    director
  18. 2003-11-28
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    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane resigned
    secretary
  19. 2003-11-28
    ➕
    BARR, Robert Douglas appointed
    secretary
  20. 2003-11-28
    ➖
    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane resigned
    director
  21. 1996-01-29
    ➕
    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane appointed
    secretary
  22. 1996-01-29
    ➖
    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas resigned
    secretary
  23. 1996-01-29
    ➖
    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas resigned
    director
  24. 1989-08-23
    ➕
    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas appointed
    secretary
  25. 1989-08-23
    ➕
    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas appointed
    director
  26. 1989-08-09
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    FERNANDO, Semage Rupasiri appointed
    director
  27. 1989-08-09
    ➕
    ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane appointed
    director
  28. 1988-11-01
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    Company incorporated
    As ARDMEL GROUP LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 37 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 37 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 37 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Semage Rupasiri Fernando
Individual · British · DOB 10/1943 · age 83
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting01/07/2016

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
Incorporated1988-11-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

52-53 Nasmyth Road
Southfield Industrial Estate
Glenrothes
Fife
KY6 2SD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-20
Last: 2026-03-06

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

FERNANDO, Semage Rupasiri→
director · ~83y · appointed 1989-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FERNANDO, Shantha Ruwan→
director · ~57y · appointed 2004-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane→
secretary · appointed 1996-01-29 · resigned 2003-11-28
Resigned
ANDERSON, Robert Thomas→
secretary · appointed 1989-08-23 · resigned 1996-01-29
Resigned
BARR, Robert Douglas→
secretary · appointed 2003-11-28 · resigned 2022-05-06
Resigned
ANDERSON, Richard Mcfarlane→
director · ~90y · appointed 1989-08-09 · resigned 2003-11-28
Resigned
ANDERSON, Robert Thomas→
director · ~86y · appointed 1989-08-23 · resigned 1996-01-29
Resigned

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Recent filings (92 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-11-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-11-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-03-19