DOBIES HEAT CENTRES LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC192731 · ltd · incorporated 1999-01-21
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 25.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
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 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). 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 25.5y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.5 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 (79/100)

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
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
75 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

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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees17002000

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-05-02
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  3. 2023-06-13
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  4. 2022-07-27
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  5. 2021-09-30
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  6. 2020-10-06
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  7. 2019-08-02
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  8. 2018-10-01
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  9. 2017-10-07
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  10. 2016-07-22
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  11. 2016-02-08
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  12. 2015-09-18
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  13. 2015-01-30
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  14. 2014-09-22
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2000-11-01
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  16. 2000-04-26
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    DOBIE, Aileen appointed
    secretary
  17. 2000-04-26
    ➖
    O'DONNELL, Steven resigned
    secretary
  18. 1999-11-23
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    O'DONNELL, Steven resigned
    director
  19. 1999-01-21
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    Company incorporated
    As DOBIES HEAT CENTRES LTD.
  20. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    DOBIE, Aileen appointed
    director
  21. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    DOBIE, Michael Joseph appointed
    director
  22. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, Steven appointed
    secretary
  23. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  25. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  26. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director
  27. 1999-01-21
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, Steven appointed
    director

Owner dependency

99/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "DOBIE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +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 64. 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 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
Miss Aileen Dobie
Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Michael Joseph Dobie
Individual · British · DOB 12/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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 SIC46740 — SIC 46740

Registered office

35 Drumshoreland Road
Pumpherston
Livingston
West Lothian
EH53 0LF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-05
Last: 2026-02-19

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

DOBIE, Aileen→
secretary · appointed 2000-04-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOBIE, Aileen→
director · ~60y · appointed 1999-01-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOBIE, Michael Joseph→
director · ~64y · appointed 1999-01-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
O'DONNELL, Steven→
secretary · appointed 1999-01-21 · resigned 2000-04-26
Resigned
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
O'DONNELL, Steven→
director · ~75y · appointed 1999-01-21 · resigned 1999-11-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property01/11/2000—
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Recent filings (75 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-08-02