LUGG & GOULD LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC127217 · ltd · incorporated 1990-09-12

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

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 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

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

93 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

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Average employees	400	400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand

2026-01-21
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2024-03-14
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2023-03-31
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2022-01-14
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2021-02-23
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2020-03-25
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2019-04-01
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2018-04-10
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2016-12-06
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2002-08-26
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HUTCHINSON, Patrick Richard resigned
director
1998-12-01
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BROOKES, Geoffrey Charles appointed
director
1998-12-01
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HOBSON, Robin Quentin Greig appointed
director
1998-12-01
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HUTCHINSON, Patrick Richard appointed
director
1990-10-30
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BROOKES, Geoffrey Charles appointed
secretary
1990-10-30
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MACGREGOR, John Donald appointed
director
1990-10-30
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MEASURES, Alan Richard appointed
director
1990-10-30
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DM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1990-10-30
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BRUCE, Roderick Lawrence resigned
nominee-director
1990-10-30
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MINTO, Bruce Watson resigned
nominee-director
1990-09-12
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Company incorporated
As LUGG & GOULD LIMITED
1990-09-12
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DM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1990-09-12
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BRUCE, Roderick Lawrence appointed
nominee-director
1990-09-12
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MINTO, Bruce Watson appointed
nominee-director

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

-4 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 80 — 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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 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

3 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Kathleen Helen Macgregor Individual · British · DOB 01/1949 · age 77	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	03/04/2025
Mrs Janet Evelyn Hobson Individual · British · DOB 05/1956 · age 70	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	03/04/2025
Mr Geoffrey Charles Brookes Individual · British · DOB 08/1952 · age 74	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	18/08/2016

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

Incorporated1990-09-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Buchan House Carnegie Campus

Enterprise Way

Dunfermline

Fife

KY11 8PL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-22

Last: 2025-08-08