LOGAN TRADING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC153638 · ltd · incorporated 1994-10-14
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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 (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
87 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 Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-10-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-08-27
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  5. 2024-08-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2024-08-27
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  7. 2023-11-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2023-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-08-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-04-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-12-28
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    LOGAN, Linda Lennox resigned
    director
  12. 2021-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-09-04
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2018-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2014-09-18
    ➕
    LOGAN, Gillian St Clair appointed
    secretary
  18. 2014-09-18
    ➕
    LOGAN, Michael Robert appointed
    director
  19. 2014-09-18
    ➖
    LOGAN, Andrew Weir resigned
    secretary
  20. 1994-10-14
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As LOGAN TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
  21. 1994-10-14
    ➕
    LOGAN, Andrew Weir appointed
    director
  22. 1994-10-14
    ➕
    LOGAN, Andrew Weir appointed
    secretary
  23. 1994-10-14
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1994-10-14
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  25. 1994-10-14
    ➕
    LOGAN, Linda Lennox appointed
    director
  26. 1994-10-14
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  27. 1994-10-14
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "LOGAN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 78 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 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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 Andrew Weir Logan
Individual · British · DOB 12/1948 · age 78
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1994-10-14
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Kingask House
Kingask House
St. Andrews
Fife
KY16 8PN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-20
Last: 2025-10-06

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

LOGAN, Gillian St Clair→
secretary · appointed 2014-09-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOGAN, Andrew Weir→
director · ~78y · appointed 1994-10-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOGAN, Michael Robert→
director · ~56y · appointed 2014-09-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOGAN, Andrew Weir→
secretary · appointed 1994-10-14 · resigned 2014-09-18
Resigned
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1994-10-14 · resigned 1994-10-14
Resigned
LOGAN, Linda Lennox→
director · ~78y · appointed 1994-10-14 · resigned 2021-12-28
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1994-10-14 · resigned 1994-10-14
Resigned

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Recent filings (87 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-21
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-08-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-08-27
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-08-27
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-25
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-15