ABERDEEN TAXI METERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC327897 · ltd · incorporated 2007-07-17
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 18.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 49320
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 18.5y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
53 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-01-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2023-01-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2023-01-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2023-01-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2022-12-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-05-12
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  10. 2022-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-04-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-03-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-09-18
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  15. 2018-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-07-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  17. 2007-10-29
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 2007-07-17
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    Company incorporated
    As ABERDEEN TAXI METERS LIMITED
  19. 2007-07-17
    ➕
    SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2007-07-17
    ➕
    LEIPER, Gary Grieve appointed
    director
  21. 2007-07-17
    ➕
    MCLEOD, Russell appointed
    director
  22. 2007-07-17
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    MMA NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2007-07-17
    ➖
    MMA NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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
Gary Grieve Leiper
Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting12/07/2017
Russell Mcleod
Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting12/07/2017

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
Incorporated2007-07-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49320 — SIC 49320

Registered office

Braehead Cove Road
Cove
Aberdeen
AB12 3NX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-05
Last: 2025-10-22

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-07-17
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Active
LEIPER, Gary Grieve→
director · ~61y · appointed 2007-07-17
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Active
MCLEOD, Russell→
director · ~67y · appointed 2007-07-17
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Active
MMA NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2007-07-17 · resigned 2007-07-17
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property29/10/2007—
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Recent filings (53 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-08
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-31
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2022-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-19