ARDEER RESEARCH AND MARKETING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC189599 · ltd · incorporated 1998-09-22
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: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
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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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 employees2200

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.

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
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2022-12-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2022-12-07
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  8. 2022-04-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2022-04-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2022-04-20
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2022-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-12-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2020-10-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-01-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 1998-12-15
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    FALLON, Deborah appointed
    secretary
  18. 1998-12-15
    ➕
    FALLON, Deborah appointed
    director
  19. 1998-10-07
    ➕
    FALLON, John appointed
    director
  20. 1998-10-07
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  21. 1998-10-07
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director
  22. 1998-09-22
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    Company incorporated
    As ARDEER RESEARCH AND MARKETING LIMITED
  23. 1998-09-22
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1998-09-22
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

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 John Fallon
Individual · British · DOB 03/1960 · age 66
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control04/09/2016

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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-09-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

1 Cemetery Road
Galston
KA4 8JU
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-06
Last: 2025-09-22

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

FALLON, Deborah→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FALLON, Deborah→
director · ~60y · appointed 1998-12-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FALLON, John→
director · ~66y · appointed 1998-10-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-09-22 · resigned 1998-10-07
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1998-09-22 · resigned 1998-10-07
Resigned

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Recent filings (76 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-07
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-30