JASTLO 'C' LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC259393 · ltd · incorporated 2003-11-17

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 Nov 2024

Net worth

£-16.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03110

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -84% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. 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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

56 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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 · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £16,304

Cash draining

Cash down 84% YoY

Cash YoY

-84%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1k

↓ 84% YoY

Net Worth

-£16k

↓ 68% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-11-30	2023-11-30
Total assets	£-3.1k	£4.6k
Current assets	—	£8.8k
Cash	£1.4k	£8.8k
Net assets	£-16.3k	£-9.7k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-07-29
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2024-07-30
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2023-08-22
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2022-08-23
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2021-08-30
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2020-07-07
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2019-07-26
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2018-06-20
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2017-07-12
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2016-07-12
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accounts · AA
2015-12-08
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2015-08-10
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accounts · AA
2014-12-09
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2014-07-15
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2013-12-03
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2003-11-20
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STEWART, Alan appointed
secretary
2003-11-20
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STEWART, Alan appointed
director
2003-11-20
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STEWART, Denis appointed
director
2003-11-20
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FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD resigned
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2003-11-20
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FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD resigned
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2003-11-17
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Company incorporated
As JASTLO 'C' LTD
2003-11-17
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FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD appointed
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2003-11-17
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FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD appointed
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Owner dependency

84/100

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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Alan Stewart Individual · British · DOB 06/1968 · age 58	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Denis Stewart Individual · British · DOB 07/1965 · age 61	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2003-11-17

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03110 — SIC 03110

Registered office

Account Tax Ltd

Traill Drive

Montrose

Angus

DD10 8SW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-08-31

Last made up to: 2024-11-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-01

Last: 2025-11-17

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

STEWART, Alan→

secretary · appointed 2003-11-20

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Active

STEWART, Alan→

director · ~58y · appointed 2003-11-20

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Active

STEWART, Denis→

director · ~61y · appointed 2003-11-20

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Active

FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-11-17 · resigned 2003-11-20

Resigned

FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-11-17 · resigned 2003-11-20

Resigned

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