COMRIE INVESTMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC353666 · ltd · incorporated 2009-01-19
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
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01700
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
53 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
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 employees6800

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-04-20
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    address · AD01
  12. 2016-10-28
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-02-25
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-12-24
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-10-06
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    capital · SH01
  16. 2011-06-10
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    WJM SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2009-01-19
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    Company incorporated
    As COMRIE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
  18. 2009-01-19
    ➕
    ENGGAARD, Jens Jorgen appointed
    director
  19. 2009-01-19
    ➕
    ENGGAARD, Jorgen appointed
    director
  20. 2009-01-19
    ➕
    ENGGAARD, Lars Asger appointed
    director
  21. 2009-01-19
    ➕
    WJM SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary

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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — 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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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

Fam-Holding A/S is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Fam-Holding A/S
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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COMRIE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
This company · SC353666

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Fam-Holding A/S
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2009-01-19
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01700 — SIC 01700

Registered office

5 Whitefriars Crescent
Perth
PH2 0PA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last: 2026-01-17

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ENGGAARD, Jens Jorgen→
director · ~58y · appointed 2009-01-19
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Active
ENGGAARD, Jorgen→
director · ~86y · appointed 2009-01-19
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Active
ENGGAARD, Lars Asger→
director · ~55y · appointed 2009-01-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WJM SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-01-19 · resigned 2011-06-10
Resigned

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Recent filings (53 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-23