GC GROUP LIMITED

📈Growthactive

SC146007 · ltd · incorporated 1993-08-20

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 31.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£1.86M

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 13921

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: conservative operator with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 31.1y

75/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 31.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

12 officers (6 active, 12 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

16 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

96 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £212,806

Strong revenue growth

Turnover up 16% YoY

Turnover YoY

+16%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Turnover	£1.86M	£1.60M
Gross profit	£857.2k	£811.8k
Operating profit	£212.3k	£71.5k
Profit before tax	£212.8k	£80.8k
Average employees	1500	1700

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2025-10-06
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officers · TM01
2025-08-31
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SINCLAIR, Carol-Ann resigned
director
2025-08-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-08
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officers · TM01
2025-04-04
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DAVIDSON, Stuart resigned
director
2024-09-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-02
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2022-05-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-18
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officers · AP01
2021-08-16
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SINCLAIR, Carol-Ann appointed
director
2021-05-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-23
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DAVIDSON, Stuart appointed
director
2020-01-23
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officers · AP01
2020-01-17
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officers · AP01
2020-01-16
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BLANEY, Cameron Alexander appointed
director
2019-05-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-24
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officers · AP01
2019-01-21
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BLANEY, Lewis David appointed
director
2018-08-28
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address · AD01
2018-05-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2001-01-01
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BLANEY, Robert Allan resigned
director
1998-01-02
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BLANEY, Robert Allan appointed
director
1996-06-04
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CRUDEN, Alexander resigned
director
1995-11-01
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PATRICK, Margaret appointed
director
1995-11-01
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CRUDEN, Alexander appointed
director
1995-02-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1993-08-24
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BLANEY, Morag appointed
secretary
1993-08-24
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BLANEY, Alexander appointed
director
1993-08-24
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BLANEY, Morag appointed
director
1993-08-20
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Company incorporated
As GC GROUP LIMITED
1993-08-20
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REID, Brian appointed
nominee-secretary
1993-08-20
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REID, Brian resigned
nominee-secretary
1993-08-20
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MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
nominee-director
1993-08-20
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MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
nominee-director

Owner dependency

66/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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.)

Group structure

Crest (Properties) Scotland Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Crest (Properties) Scotland Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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GC GROUP LIMITED

This company · SC146007

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Crest (Properties) Scotland Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	20/08/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1993-08-20

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC13921 — SIC 13921

Registered office

Unit 10 Springkerse Trade Park

Craig Leith Road

Stirling

FK7 7GN

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-03

Last: 2025-08-20