CARMEL HERBALS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC125019 · ltd · incorporated 1990-05-15
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£21.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 21100
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 89-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 89). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
81 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £21,277

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£77k
Net Worth
£21k
Current Assets
£95k
Current Liabilities
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£0£19k£38k£57k£76k£95kApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£21.3k—
Current assets£95.0k—
Cash£77.4k—
Debtors£5.7k—
Net assets£21.3k—
Average employees—500

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-11-04
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  3. 2024-05-22
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    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-01-31
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-01-31
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  6. 2022-01-31
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  7. 2020-12-18
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-01-31
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-04
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    MAKHOULI, Sophia appointed
    director
  10. 2019-12-04
    ➕
    MURRAY, Naomi appointed
    director
  11. 2019-12-04
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  12. 2019-12-04
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  13. 2019-01-25
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  14. 2017-09-07
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  15. 2016-06-08
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  16. 2016-05-18
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  17. 2015-07-10
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  18. 2015-06-16
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  19. 2012-02-24
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    THOMSON, Tracey resigned
    secretary
  20. 2008-06-30
    ➖
    MURRAY, Naomi resigned
    secretary
  21. 2008-06-30
    ➕
    THOMSON, Tracey appointed
    secretary
  22. 1990-05-15
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    Company incorporated
    As CARMEL HERBALS LIMITED
  23. 1990-05-15
    ➕
    LAMB, Brian Victor appointed
    director
  24. 1990-05-15
    ➕
    MURRAY, Naomi appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 36 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 89 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 89 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 36 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Brian Lamb
Individual · British · DOB 08/1937 · age 89
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-05-15
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC21100 — SIC 21100

Registered office

20 Sinclair Street
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 7AQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-24
Last: 2025-05-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

LAMB, Brian Victor→
director · ~89y · appointed 1990-05-15
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Active
MAKHOULI, Sophia→
director · ~47y · appointed 2019-12-04
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Active
MURRAY, Naomi→
director · ~55y · appointed 2019-12-04
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Active
MURRAY, Naomi→
secretary · appointed 1990-05-15 · resigned 2008-06-30
Resigned
THOMSON, Tracey→
secretary · appointed 2008-06-30 · resigned 2012-02-24
Resigned

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Recent filings (81 total)

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2026-01-23
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2025-06-20
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2024-11-04
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-22
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officers · CH01
2024-05-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-16
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accounts · AA
2023-01-31
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2022-05-26
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accounts · AA
2022-01-31
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2021-05-18
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accounts · AA
2020-12-18
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-01-31
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officers · AP01
2019-12-04