NEWMILL FISHING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC322151 · ltd · incorporated 2007-04-25
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03210
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). 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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
62 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees700700

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-30
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  4. 2023-12-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-11-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-02-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-05-09
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    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-11-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-05-22
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-10-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2007-05-08
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    BUCHANAN, Craig appointed
    director
  17. 2007-05-08
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    MCCALLUM, David Graeme appointed
    director
  18. 2007-05-03
    ➕
    BUCHANAN, Alexander Fleming appointed
    secretary
  19. 2007-05-03
    ➕
    BUCHANAN, Alexander Fleming appointed
    director
  20. 2007-05-03
    ➕
    BUCHANAN, David Rae appointed
    director
  21. 2007-05-03
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    @UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2007-05-03
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    @UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2007-04-25
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    Company incorporated
    As NEWMILL FISHING LIMITED
  24. 2007-04-25
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    @UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2007-04-25
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    @UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Rae Buchanan
Individual · British · DOB 06/1952 · age 74
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Alexader Fleming Buchanan
Individual · British · DOB 11/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2007-04-25
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC03210 — SIC 03210

Registered office

The Mechanics Workshop
New Lanark
Lanark
ML11 9DB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-10
Last: 2025-06-26

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

BUCHANAN, Alexander Fleming→
secretary · appointed 2007-05-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BUCHANAN, Alexander Fleming→
director · ~80y · appointed 2007-05-03
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Active
BUCHANAN, Craig→
director · ~49y · appointed 2007-05-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BUCHANAN, David Rae→
director · ~74y · appointed 2007-05-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCALLUM, David Graeme→
director · ~50y · appointed 2007-05-08
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Active
@UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2007-04-25 · resigned 2007-05-03
Resigned
@UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-04-25 · resigned 2007-05-03
Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-26
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2024-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-11-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-10-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-02-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-12-30