MCI ELECTROTECHNICS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC157005 · ltd · incorporated 1995-03-29

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 30.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of engines and turbines (except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines)

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 30.7y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 30.7 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.

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

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

Directors & officers

12 officers (6 active, 12 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

92 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

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	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Average employees	1700	1900

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

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2025-10-03
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accounts · AA
2024-10-31
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accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-10-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2021-12-06
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-10-26
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FRASER, Alan resigned
director
2021-10-26
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-07-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-03-31
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change-account-reference-date-company
accounts · AA01
2020-01-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-01-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-10-17
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2018-01-05
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2017-04-05
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2017-03-28
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2017-03-23
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2017-03-15
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SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2017-03-15
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DOUGLAS, John William appointed
director
2017-03-15
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MCNEIL, Karen appointed
director
2017-03-15
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MILNE, Neil appointed
director
2017-03-15
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BURNETT & COMPANY resigned
corporate-secretary
2017-03-15
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MCINTOSH, Ian James Cowie resigned
director
2015-01-01
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FRASER, Alan appointed
director
2007-11-01
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ANDERSON, Ronald appointed
director
2007-11-01
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LUMSDEN, Yvonne appointed
director
2005-09-30
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CLARK, Michael resigned
director
1995-09-11
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CLARK, Michael appointed
director
1995-08-17
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1995-03-29
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Company incorporated
As MCI ELECTROTECHNICS LIMITED
1995-03-29
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BURNETT & COMPANY appointed
corporate-secretary
1995-03-29
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-03-29
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-03-29
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MCINTOSH, Ian James Cowie appointed
director
1995-03-29
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1995-03-29
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
corporate-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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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

T D C (Aberdeen) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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T D C (Aberdeen) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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MCI ELECTROTECHNICS LIMITED

This company · SC157005

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
T D C (Aberdeen) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	12/04/2017

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

Incorporated1995-03-29

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC28110 — Manufacture of engines and turbines (except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines)

Registered office

37 Albyn Place

Aberdeen

Aberdeen City

AB10 1YN

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-25

Last: 2025-06-11