DOUGLAS ORR & COMPANY LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC185757 · ltd · incorporated 1998-05-13
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 27.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 02400
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). 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 27.6y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 27.6 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: medium (77/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
86 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1 | 100 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →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 (30 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-27📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-27📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-11-27📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-11-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-10-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-30📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2018-10-28➕ORR, Caitlin appointeddirector
- 2018-10-28➕ORR, Christopher appointeddirector
- 2018-10-28➕ORR, Sarah appointeddirector
- 2018-10-28📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2018-10-28📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2017-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2009-04-06➖KYLE, David Justice resignedsecretary
- 2004-08-08➕KYLE, David Justice appointedsecretary
- 2003-10-05➖ORR, John Stewart resignedsecretary
- 1998-09-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 1998-05-18➕ORR, William Douglas appointeddirector
- 1998-05-18➕ORR, John Stewart appointedsecretary
- 1998-05-18➖STRONACHS resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-05-18➖RENNIE, David Alan resignednominee-director
- 1998-05-13🏢Company incorporatedAs DOUGLAS ORR & COMPANY LIMITED
- 1998-05-13➕STRONACHS appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-05-13➕RENNIE, David Alan appointednominee-director
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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
cleanNo 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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr William Douglas Orr Individual · Scottish · DOB 05/1956 · age 70 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 13/05/2017 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-05-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC02400 — SIC 02400
Registered office
19 Dean Park Mews
Edinburgh
EH4 1EE
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-27
Last: 2025-05-13
Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)
ORR, Caitlin→
Activedirector · ~34y · appointed 2018-10-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ORR, Christopher→
Activedirector · ~29y · appointed 2018-10-28
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Active
ORR, William Douglas→
Activedirector · ~70y · appointed 1998-05-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
KYLE, David Justice→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2004-08-08 · resigned 2009-04-06
ORR, John Stewart→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1998-05-18 · resigned 2003-10-05
STRONACHS→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-05-13 · resigned 1998-05-18
RENNIE, David Alan→
Resignednominee-director · ~73y · appointed 1998-05-13 · resigned 1998-05-18
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 26/09/1998 | — |
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Recent filings (86 total)
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2023-11-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
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2023-11-27
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2023-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
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2023-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2022-12-06
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2022-05-15
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2021-10-28
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2021-05-21
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2020-12-09
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2020-09-19