TOWER BAKERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC192714 · ltd · incorporated 1999-01-21
Investment thesis
Unencumbered property vehicle — clean asset-backed target with refinance headroom.
Why interesting: Property-holding entity with no live charges; straightforward asset-backed case.
Why risky: Values depend on title and valuation; property-specific market exposure.
🔒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 letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
71 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 employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-26
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  2. 2025-07-31
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  3. 2025-07-31
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    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-07-31
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  5. 2025-03-03
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2025-03-01
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  7. 2025-03-01
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2025-03-01
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    officers · CH01
  9. 2025-02-28
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2024-12-13
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-10-09
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-08-20
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-11-27
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-07-10
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  16. 2018-07-25
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  17. 1999-01-31
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    MCKINNON, Alexander Craig appointed
    director
  18. 1999-01-21
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    Company incorporated
    As TOWER BAKERY LIMITED
  19. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    MCKINNON, Angela appointed
    secretary
  20. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    MCKINNON, Angela appointed
    director
  21. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  22. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  23. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  24. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    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 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — 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 75 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 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Alexander Craig Mckinnon
Individual · British · DOB 07/1951 · age 75
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/07/2016
Mrs Angela Mckinnon
Individual · British · DOB 11/1957 · age 69
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/07/2016

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
Incorporated1999-01-21
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Registered office

Shore Road
Perth
Tayside
PH2 8BH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-04
Last: 2026-01-21

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MCKINNON, Angela→
secretary · appointed 1999-01-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCKINNON, Alexander Craig→
director · ~75y · appointed 1999-01-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCKINNON, Angela→
director · ~69y · appointed 1999-01-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-01-21 · resigned 1999-01-21
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1999-01-21 · resigned 1999-01-21
Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-26
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-01