APPLE HEALTHCARE EDINBURGH LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC339804 · ltd · incorporated 2008-03-18
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 18.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£478.1k
book net assets
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
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.2y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
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
56 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £478,056
Cash YoY
+6%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£51k
↑ 5.9% YoY
Net Worth
£478k
↑ 85% YoY
Current Assets
£802k
↑ 136% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£160k£321k£481k£641k£802kOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£607.7k£487.9k
Current assets£801.7k£339.4k
Cash£51.2k£48.4k
Debtors£725.8k£261.5k
Net assets£478.1k£257.8k

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 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-14
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-19
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-19
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-15
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    address · AD01
  5. 2022-09-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2022-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-07-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-03-27
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  10. 2019-07-29
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-05-16
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    mortgage · MR04
  12. 2019-05-16
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    Charge satisfied #3
  13. 2019-04-27
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    mortgage · MR01
  14. 2019-04-25
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  15. 2019-02-02
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2019-01-30
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  17. 2018-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-04-04
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    mortgage · MR01
  19. 2018-03-29
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank)
  20. 2014-04-10
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    AGGARWAL, Narinder Kumar resigned
    secretary
  21. 2008-03-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  22. 2008-03-18
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    Company incorporated
    As APPLE HEALTHCARE EDINBURGH LTD
  23. 2008-03-18
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    MAJHU, Sanjay appointed
    director
  24. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    WILSON, Simon Andrew appointed
    director
  25. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    AGGARWAL, Narinder Kumar appointed
    secretary
  26. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-secretary
  27. 2008-03-18
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-secretary
  28. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  29. 2008-03-18
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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 Simon Andrew Wilson
Individual · British · DOB 01/1971 · age 55
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/03/2020
Mr Sanjay Majhu
Individual · British · DOB 09/1968 · age 58
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/01/2017

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 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
Incorporated2008-03-18
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47730 — Dispensing chemist in specialised stores

Registered office

Sky Hub Suite 1, Skypark 1
8 Elliot Place
Glasgow
G3 8EP
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-15
Last: 2026-05-01

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

MAJHU, Sanjay→
director · ~58y · appointed 2008-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILSON, Simon Andrew→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
AGGARWAL, Narinder Kumar→
secretary · appointed 2008-03-18 · resigned 2014-04-10
Resigned
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-03-18 · resigned 2008-03-18
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-03-18 · resigned 2008-03-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property25/04/2019—
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property30/01/201916/05/2019
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank)
A registered charge—29/03/2018—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property28/03/2008—
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Recent filings (56 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-09-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-01