ABBEY CHEMISTS LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC323221 · ltd · incorporated 2007-05-08

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.

Why now

Window steady · medium confidence

Mixed signals — 2 changes over 30 days, no clear direction yet.

· Deal-killer verdict: workable → complicated
· PSC count: 1 → 2

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 17.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Mixed signals in the last 30 days — 1 improved, 1 worsened.

↓Deal-killer verdict: workable → complicated
↑PSC count: 1 → 2

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

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Net worth

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Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Dispensing chemist in specialised stores

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 17.9y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 17.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

79 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Average employees	3900	4100

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

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 5 officers
• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

2026-06-05
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-06-05
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-03-30
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accounts · AA
2026-03-27
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confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-01-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-18
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2025-12-18
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2025-12-18
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officers · CH03
2025-03-24
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accounts · AA
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2024-12-20
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capital · SH01
2024-10-11
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capital · SH02
2024-10-07
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resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-03-26
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accounts · AA
2023-03-21
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accounts · AA
2022-01-18
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2021-06-01
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2021-01-19
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Charge satisfied #1
2012-12-21
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MOHAMMED, Imran, Dr appointed
director
2012-12-21
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MOHAMMED, Siraj appointed
director
2008-07-14
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2007-05-08
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Company incorporated
As ABBEY CHEMISTS LTD
2007-05-08
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MOHAMMED, Asgher appointed
secretary
2007-05-08
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MOHAMMED, Asgher appointed
director
2007-05-08
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MOHAMMED, Farzana Kauser appointed
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 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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.)

Group structure

Abbeychem Holdco Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Abbeychem Holdco Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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ABBEY CHEMISTS LTD

This company · SC323221

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
Abbeychem Holdco Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	01/06/2026

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Asgher Mohammedceased 01/06/2026· 50-75% shares

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

Incorporated2007-05-08

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47730 — Dispensing chemist in specialised stores

Registered office

C/O Alexander Sloan, 7th Floor, 180

St. Vincent Street

Glasgow

G2 5SG

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-28

Last: 2025-10-14