JACK MACDONALD & CO LIMITED

📈Growthactive
SC259171 · ltd · incorporated 2003-11-12
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 22.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£154.8k
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other information technology service activities
Sector: Information & communication
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 69201Accounting and auditing activities
  • 74909Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (85/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 22.3y

95/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
67 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Profitable
Profit before tax £103,364
Turnover YoY
+7%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£154.8k£144.5k
Gross profit£146.7k£139.0k
Profit before tax£103.4k£85.0k
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  2. 2025-12-28
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-12-29
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-28
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-05-22
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-05-22
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    accounts · AA01
  7. 2022-02-04
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2022-02-04
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2021-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-06-09
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    mortgage · MR04
  12. 2020-06-09
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    mortgage · MR04
  13. 2020-06-09
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    Charge satisfied #2
  14. 2020-06-09
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    Charge satisfied #1
  15. 2020-03-02
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    MACDONALD, Lourda Bernadette resigned
    director
  16. 2020-03-02
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  17. 2020-03-02
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  18. 2020-03-02
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    capital · SH01
  19. 2020-03-02
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    officers · TM01
  20. 2020-03-02
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  21. 2004-02-26
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  22. 2004-01-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  23. 2003-11-12
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    Company incorporated
    As JACK MACDONALD & CO LIMITED
  24. 2003-11-12
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Jack Martin appointed
    secretary
  25. 2003-11-12
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    MACDONALD, Jack Martin appointed
    director
  26. 2003-11-12
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Lourda Bernadette appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MACDONALD" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +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.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Jack Martin Macdonald
Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Lourda Bernadette Macdonaldceased 19/02/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 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
Incorporated2003-11-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

Cuan Aille
1 Aldersyde
Taynuilt
Argyll
PA35 1AG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-15
Last: 2026-03-01

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

MACDONALD, Jack Martin→
secretary · appointed 2003-11-12
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Active
MACDONALD, Jack Martin→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-11-12
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Active
MACDONALD, Lourda Bernadette→
director · ~71y · appointed 2003-11-12 · resigned 2020-03-02
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Standard security1 property26/02/200409/06/2020
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property28/01/200409/06/2020

Recent filings (67 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-07
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-22
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2022-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-01