EB ELECTRICAL LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC200480 · ltd · incorporated 1999-10-01
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Repair of machinery
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive 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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
56 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 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 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
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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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-09-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-10-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2015-10-20📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-10-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2014-10-22📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2014-09-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2013-10-15📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 1999-10-01🏢Company incorporatedAs EB ELECTRICAL LIMITED
- 1999-10-01➕BROWN, Jillian Shepherd appointedsecretary
- 1999-10-01➕BROWN, Edward Charles David appointeddirector
- 1999-10-01➕BROWN, Jillian Shepherd appointeddirector
- 1999-10-01➕OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1999-10-01➖OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 candidateStrong 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
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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr Edward Charles David Brown Individual · British · DOB 06/1951 · age 75 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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| ELDER OFFSHORE SERVICES LTD→ SC832878 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
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| EUROCASTORS LIMITED→ SC045570 · est 1968 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 58y | — | — |
| FCE HYDRAULICS LTD→ SC191289 · est 1998 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 27y | — | — |
| FIFE COOPERAGE LIMITED→ SC817121 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| FIFE ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED→ SC033397 · est 1958 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 67y | — | — |
| FIFE FABRICATIONS LIMITED→ SC051054 · est 1972 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 53y | — | — |
| FIFE HEAT TREATMENT, SALES&RENTALS LTD→ SC862208 · est 2025 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| FIFE MEMORIALS LTD→ SC399948 · est 2011 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 14y | — | — |
| FIFE NDT INSPECTION SERVICES LIMITED→ SC478854 · est 2014 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 11y | — | — |
| FIFE SHUTTERS LIMITED→ SC240232 · est 2002 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 23y | — | — |
| FIFE SMART REPAIR SPECIALIST LIMITED→ SC616566 · est 2018 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 7y | — | — |
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-10-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC33120 — Repair of machinery
Registered office
12 Carlingnose Park
North Queensferry
Inverkeithing
Fife
KY11 1EX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-13
Last: 2025-09-29
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
BROWN, Jillian Shepherd→
Activesecretary · appointed 1999-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BROWN, Edward Charles David→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 1999-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BROWN, Jillian Shepherd→
Activedirector · ~73y · appointed 1999-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-10-01 · resigned 1999-10-01
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Recent filings (56 total)
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2025-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2025-09-18
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2024-09-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2023-09-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2022-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-10-05