COVANHILL POWDER COATERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC216337 · ltd · incorporated 2001-03-02
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒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: Treatment and coating of metals
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
58 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
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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 employees500500

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-03-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2025-10-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-30
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  6. 2024-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-05-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-04-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-02-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-27
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  14. 2016-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-03-15
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2001-03-02
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    Company incorporated
    As COVANHILL POWDER COATERS LIMITED
  17. 2001-03-02
    ➕
    SOMERVILLE, Karen appointed
    secretary
  18. 2001-03-02
    ➕
    SOMERVILLE, Karen appointed
    director
  19. 2001-03-02
    ➕
    SOMERVILLE, William Alexander appointed
    director
  20. 2001-03-02
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2001-03-02
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — 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 68. 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 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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 William Alexander Somerville
Individual · British · DOB 10/1968 · age 58
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Karen Somerville
Individual · British · DOB 09/1962 · 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
Incorporated2001-03-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC25610 — Treatment and coating of metals

Registered office

Covanhill Farm
Cleghorn
Lanark
Lanarkshire
ML11 8PA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-16
Last: 2026-03-02

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SOMERVILLE, Karen→
secretary · appointed 2001-03-02
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Active
SOMERVILLE, Karen→
director · ~64y · appointed 2001-03-02
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Active
SOMERVILLE, William Alexander→
director · ~68y · appointed 2001-03-02
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-03-02 · resigned 2001-03-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (58 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-10-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-31
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-05-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-04-15