GRAY & ADAMS GROUP LIMITED

📈Growthactive

SC230241 · ltd · incorporated 2002-04-11

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 29202

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

15 officers (5 active, 15 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

91 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £11,959,891

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-05-02	2024-04-26
Profit before tax	£11.96M	£1.40M
Average employees	0	0

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand

2025-12-26
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accounts · AA
2024-12-26
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accounts · AA
2023-12-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-09
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accounts · AA
2022-10-24
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officers · AP01
2022-10-14
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SUTHERLAND, Andrew appointed
director
2022-06-14
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officers · TM02
2022-06-14
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appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2022-05-31
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SUTHERLAND, Andrew appointed
secretary
2022-05-14
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SMITH, John resigned
secretary
2022-05-13
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-05-09
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GRANT, Mark Alexander resigned
director
2021-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
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accounts · AA
2019-12-31
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accounts · AA
2019-04-26
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address · AD01
2018-12-20
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accounts · AA
2018-01-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2015-04-01
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GRAY, Lewis Beedie resigned
director
2013-08-12
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GRANT, Mark Alexander appointed
director
2013-04-30
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MITCHELL, Paul Watt resigned
secretary
2013-04-30
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SMITH, John appointed
secretary
2013-04-30
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MITCHELL, Paul Watt resigned
director
2011-11-16
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MITCHELL, Paul Watt appointed
secretary
2011-11-16
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SMITH, Derek resigned
secretary
2011-11-16
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MITCHELL, Paul Watt appointed
director
2010-03-15
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SMITH, Derek appointed
secretary
2010-03-15
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WATT, James Lawrence resigned
secretary
2002-05-31
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GRAY, Peter appointed
director
2002-05-31
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GRAY JUNIOR, James Joshua appointed
director
2002-05-31
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PHILPOT, Marie Frances appointed
director
2002-05-31
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WATT, James Lawrence appointed
secretary
2002-05-31
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BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-05-31
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GRAY, Lewis Beedie appointed
director
2002-05-31
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BLP CREATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2002-05-31
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BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2002-04-11
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Company incorporated
As GRAY & ADAMS GROUP LIMITED
2002-04-11
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BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-04-11
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BLP CREATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2002-04-11
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BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

80/100

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "GRAY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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.)

Group structure

Gray & Adams Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Gray & Adams Holdings Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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GRAY & ADAMS GROUP LIMITED

This company · SC230241

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Gray & Adams Holdings Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% 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.

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Advanced scoring suite

Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2002-04-11

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC29202 — SIC 29202

Registered office

Gray & Adams Group Ltd

South Road

Fraserburgh

AB43 9HU

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-05-02

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-25

Last: 2026-04-11

Officers (5 active · 10 resigned)

SUTHERLAND, Andrew→

secretary · appointed 2022-05-31

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

GRAY, Peter→

director · ~68y · appointed 2002-05-31

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

GRAY JUNIOR, James Joshua→

director · ~71y · appointed 2002-05-31

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

PHILPOT, Marie Frances→

director · ~57y · appointed 2002-05-31

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SUTHERLAND, Andrew→

director · ~40y · appointed 2022-10-14

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MITCHELL, Paul Watt→

secretary · appointed 2011-11-16 · resigned 2013-04-30

Resigned

SMITH, Derek→

secretary · appointed 2010-03-15 · resigned 2011-11-16

Resigned

SMITH, John→

secretary · appointed 2013-04-30 · resigned 2022-05-14

Resigned

WATT, James Lawrence→

secretary · appointed 2002-05-31 · resigned 2010-03-15

Resigned

BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-04-11 · resigned 2002-05-31

Resigned

GRANT, Mark Alexander→

director · ~58y · appointed 2013-08-12 · resigned 2022-05-09

Resigned

GRAY, Lewis Beedie→

director · ~81y · appointed 2002-05-31 · resigned 2015-04-01

Resigned

MITCHELL, Paul Watt→

director · ~57y · appointed 2011-11-16 · resigned 2013-04-30

Resigned

BLP CREATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-04-11 · resigned 2002-05-31

Resigned

BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-04-11 · resigned 2002-05-31

Resigned

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Recent filings (91 total)

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2026-04-16

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2025-12-26

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-18

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accounts · AA

2024-12-26

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-28

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-10-19

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-25

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-01-09

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2022-10-24

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officers · TM02

2022-06-14

appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date

officers · AP03

2022-06-14

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-05-13

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officers · TM01

2022-05-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2021-12-29