BEAUTY SOLUTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC216158 · ltd · incorporated 2001-02-26
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 Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46450
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
20 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees0600

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-27
    ➕
    MCLAUGHLIN, Stephen appointed
    secretary
  3. 2024-09-27
    ➖
    AITKEN, Brian resigned
    secretary
  4. 2024-09-27
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  5. 2024-09-27
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  6. 2024-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-06-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-12-10
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2020-12-09
    ➖
    AITKEN, Brian resigned
    director
  12. 2020-07-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2020-07-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2020-07-01
    ➕
    MACDONOUGH, Stephen James appointed
    director
  15. 2020-07-01
    ➕
    MCLAUGHLIN, Stephen appointed
    director
  16. 2020-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2016-07-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  21. 2001-02-26
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BEAUTY SOLUTIONS LIMITED
  22. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    HEGARTY, Gerald Patrick appointed
    director
  23. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    AITKEN, Brian appointed
    secretary
  24. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2001-02-26
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    AITKEN, Brian appointed
    director
  27. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 2001-02-26
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 2001-02-26
    ➕
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SERVICES LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  30. 2001-02-26
    ➖
    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SERVICES LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Gerard Patrick Hegarty
Individual · British · DOB 10/1940 · age 86
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated2001-02-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46450 — SIC 46450

Registered office

Unit 3 Newmains Avenue
Inchinnan Business Park
Renfrew
PA4 9RR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-12
Last: 2026-02-26

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

MCLAUGHLIN, Stephen→
secretary · appointed 2024-09-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEGARTY, Gerald Patrick→
director · ~86y · appointed 2001-02-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACDONOUGH, Stephen James→
director · ~64y · appointed 2020-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCLAUGHLIN, Stephen→
director · ~52y · appointed 2020-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
AITKEN, Brian→
secretary · appointed 2001-02-26 · resigned 2024-09-27
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-02-26 · resigned 2001-02-26
Resigned
AITKEN, Brian→
director · ~72y · appointed 2001-02-26 · resigned 2020-12-09
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-02-26 · resigned 2001-02-26
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SERVICES LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-02-26 · resigned 2001-02-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2024-09-27
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-10
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-10
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-07-02