TEMPRITE (EUROPE) LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC175754 · ltd · incorporated 1997-05-23
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46740
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 7.5y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (1 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
90 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-30
Average employees0

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
8
filings
  • • 2 accounts
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
8
filings
  • • 2 accounts
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-03-06
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  3. 2026-03-06
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-03-06
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    address · AD01
  5. 2026-03-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2026-03-06
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    administrative-restoration-company
    restoration · RT01
  7. 2024-12-10
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    gazette-dissolved-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ2
  8. 2024-09-11
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    dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
    dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
  9. 2024-08-13
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  10. 2024-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-06-15
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  15. 2021-06-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  16. 2021-06-15
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  17. 2021-05-14
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    officers · TM01
  18. 2021-03-22
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    HUGHES, John Ian resigned
    director
  19. 2020-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-12-06
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  21. 2018-11-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 2018-09-07
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    HUGHES, Martha Brown resigned
    secretary
  23. 2017-05-31
    ➖
    HUGHES, Martha Brown resigned
    director
  24. 2013-01-07
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    HUGHES, John Ian appointed
    director
  25. 2010-06-30
    ➖
    HUGHES, John Ian resigned
    secretary
  26. 2010-06-30
    ➕
    HUGHES, Martha Brown appointed
    secretary
  27. 2010-06-30
    ➖
    HUGHES, John Ian resigned
    director
  28. 2003-04-01
    ➕
    HUGHES, Martha Brown appointed
    director
  29. 1997-05-23
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    Company incorporated
    As TEMPRITE (EUROPE) LIMITED
  30. 1997-05-23
    ➕
    HUGHES, Craig Nicol appointed
    director
  31. 1997-05-23
    ➕
    HUGHES, John Ian appointed
    secretary
  32. 1997-05-23
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  33. 1997-05-23
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  34. 1997-05-23
    ➕
    HUGHES, John Ian appointed
    director
  35. 1997-05-23
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  36. 1997-05-23
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

93/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

85/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

Craighouse Property Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Craighouse Property Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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TEMPRITE (EUROPE) LIMITED
This company · SC175754

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Craighouse Property Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting01/05/2020
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Craig Nicol Hughesceased 14/05/2020· 25-50% shares
  • Mr John Hughesceased 14/05/2020· 25-50% shares
  • Mrs Martha Brown Hughesceased 13/09/2018· 25-50% shares

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-05-23
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46740 — SIC 46740

Registered office

31 Oxford Road
Renfrew
Renfrewshire
PA4 0SJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-06
Last: 2025-05-23

Officers (1 active · 7 resigned)

HUGHES, Craig Nicol→
director · ~62y · appointed 1997-05-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUGHES, John Ian→
secretary · appointed 1997-05-23 · resigned 2010-06-30
Resigned
HUGHES, Martha Brown→
secretary · appointed 2010-06-30 · resigned 2018-09-07
Resigned
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-05-23 · resigned 1997-05-23
Resigned
HUGHES, John Ian→
director · ~89y · appointed 2013-01-07 · resigned 2021-03-22
Resigned
HUGHES, John Ian→
director · ~89y · appointed 1997-05-23 · resigned 2010-06-30
Resigned
HUGHES, Martha Brown→
director · ~89y · appointed 2003-04-01 · resigned 2017-05-31
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1997-05-23 · resigned 1997-05-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property06/12/2018—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—14/11/2018—
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Recent filings (90 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-03-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-06
administrative-restoration-company
restoration · RT01
2026-03-06
gazette-dissolved-compulsory
gazette · GAZ2
2024-12-10
dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2024-09-11
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2024-08-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-24