STIRLING GATEWAY LIMITED

📉Decliningactive

SC291034 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-29

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.

Opportunity decay

drifting distress · 6-months

Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.

· Lifecycle stage drifting downward
· Currently "declining"

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (77/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 20.0y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 20.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

36 officers (7 active, 36 linked, 30 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

39 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

137 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

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,994,379

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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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£1.99M	£2.57M
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

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

filings

• 2 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (92 events)Click to expand

2026-01-07
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-03
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CUNNINGHAM, Kevin Alistair appointed
director
2025-11-03
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officers · AP01
2025-09-01
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accounts · AA
2025-08-13
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officers · TM01
2025-08-07
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PEARCE, Glenn Sinclair resigned
director
2025-02-21
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officers · AP01
2025-02-21
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officers · TM01
2025-02-20
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officers · CH04
2025-02-06
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MCINALLY, Claire Agnes appointed
director
2025-02-06
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GROAT, Alison resigned
director
2024-11-28
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-14
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-11-14
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-11-13
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O'BRIEN, Kirsty resigned
director
2024-11-13
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PEARCE, Glenn Sinclair appointed
director
2024-09-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-12
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officers · AP01
2024-06-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-05-08
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BOND, Josh Callum appointed
director
2024-05-08
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CAVILL, John Ivor resigned
director
2024-01-17
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2024-01-16
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2024-01-16
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address · AD01
2024-01-16
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officers · AP04
2024-01-16
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-01-04
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INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2024-01-04
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DENTONS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2023-12-01
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GROAT, Alison appointed
director
2023-12-01
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SMITH, David Niall resigned
director
2023-12-01
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-12-01
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-09-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-02
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DIX, Carl Harvey appointed
director
2023-02-02
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WRINN, John resigned
director
2022-11-21
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SMALL, Stewart William appointed
director
2022-11-21
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VERMEER, Daniel Marinus Maria resigned
director
2021-11-04
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GILMOUR, David Fulton resigned
director
2021-11-04
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WRINN, John appointed
director
2020-04-17
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JACK, Ronald Gilfillan resigned
director
2020-04-17
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O'BRIEN, Kirsty appointed
director
2017-12-15
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THOMPSON, Richard James resigned
director
2017-12-15
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VERMEER, Daniel Marinus Maria appointed
director
2017-10-27
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DENTONS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2017-10-27
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MACLAY MURRAY & SPENS LLP resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2016-02-04
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CAVILL, John Ivor appointed
director
2016-02-04
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BIIF CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2015-04-01
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JACK, Ronald Gilfillan appointed
director
2015-04-01
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OGILVIE, Duncan Henderson, Mr. resigned
director

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

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 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Stirling Gateway Hc Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Stirling Gateway Hc Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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STIRLING GATEWAY LIMITED

This company · SC291034

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
Stirling Gateway Hc Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	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.

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9 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

Incorporated2005-09-29

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Infrastructure Managers Limited 2nd Floor Drum Suite, Saltire Court

20 Castle Terrace

Edinburgh

EH1 2EN

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-29

Last: 2025-09-15