KEMNAY PHARMACY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC245230 · ltd · incorporated 2003-03-07

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£967.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Dispensing chemist in specialised stores

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 20.2y

30/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 20.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

0 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

68 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £967,233

Cash YoY

-16%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.0m

↓ 16% YoY

Net Worth

£967k

↑ 18% YoY

Current Assets

£2.4m

↓ 14% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£4.78M	£3.20M
Current assets	£2.44M	£2.83M
Cash	£1.05M	£1.24M
Debtors	£1.17M	£1.40M
Net assets	£967.2k	£819.1k

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

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1 signal 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2025-11-11
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accounts · AA
2023-03-09
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mortgage · MR04
2023-03-09
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Charge satisfied #1
2023-03-05
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2023-02-21
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officers · CH01
2023-02-21
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officers · CH03
2022-11-24
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accounts · AA
2022-03-10
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2022-03-10
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2021-11-15
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accounts · AA
2020-10-26
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2019-11-25
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2017-04-06
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MANSON, Peter James appointed
director
2017-04-06
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MANSON, Richard John appointed
director
2016-02-24
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2006-03-07
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2003-03-07
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Company incorporated
As KEMNAY PHARMACY LIMITED
2003-03-07
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MANSON, Lynn Iris Muriel appointed
secretary
2003-03-07
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MANSON, Kenneth Mcdonald appointed
director
2003-03-07
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MANSON, Lynn Iris Muriel appointed
director
2003-03-07
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
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2003-03-07
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
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2003-03-07
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
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2003-03-07
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2003-03-07

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47730 — Dispensing chemist in specialised stores

Registered office

18 North Silver Street

Aberdeen

AB10 1JU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-21

Last: 2026-03-07