KILRYMONT GEOSCIENCE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC278627 · ltd · incorporated 2005-01-18

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 Jan 2025

Net worth

£267.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 06100

Sector: Mining & quarrying

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

06200SIC 06200
74909Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). 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, 3 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

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

45 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

Positive net assets

Net assets £267,372

Net assets shrinking

Down £4,620 YoY

Cash YoY

+6%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£2k

↑ 6.3% YoY

Net Worth

£267k

↓ 1.7% YoY

Current Assets

£3k

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-01-31	2024-01-31
Total assets	£267.4k	£272.0k
Current assets	£2.6k	—
Cash	£2.1k	£2.0k
Debtors	£443	—
Net assets	£267.4k	£272.0k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2025-05-27
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2022-08-31
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2020-10-26
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2019-09-09
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2018-09-06
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2005-01-18
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Company incorporated
As KILRYMONT GEOSCIENCE LIMITED
2005-01-18
➕
INGLIS, Marjorie Jean Hollingworth appointed
secretary
2005-01-18
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INGLIS, Ian Alexander Rolland appointed
director
2005-01-18
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INGLIS, Marjorie Jean Hollingworth appointed
director
2005-01-18
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-01-18
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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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Ian Alexander Rolland Inglis Individual · British · DOB 06/1952 · age 74	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	02/06/2016

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

Incorporated2005-01-18

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC06100 — SIC 06100

Registered office

7 Gladstone Place

Aberdeen

AB10 6UX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-10-31

Last made up to: 2025-01-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-01

Last: 2026-01-18

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

INGLIS, Marjorie Jean Hollingworth→

secretary · appointed 2005-01-18

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Active

INGLIS, Ian Alexander Rolland→

director · ~74y · appointed 2005-01-18

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Active

INGLIS, Marjorie Jean Hollingworth→

director · ~82y · appointed 2005-01-18

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-01-18 · resigned 2005-01-18

Resigned

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