JIM WILMER & SONS TIMBER HARVESTING LTD.

🌳Matureactive

SC381371 · ltd · incorporated 2010-07-02

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 · high confidence

Thesis has shifted recently — watch for confirmation.

· Lifecycle stage: zombie → mature
· Investment thesis: zombie_hold → unclassified
· Deal-killer verdict: complicated → workable
· Opportunity score: 70 → 82

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 15.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 6 positive signals vs 1 negative.

↑Lifecycle stage: zombie → mature
·Investment thesis: zombie_hold → unclassified
↑Deal-killer verdict: complicated → workable
↑Opportunity score: 70 → 82
↑Hygiene score: 85 → 90
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Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

£3.44M

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 02200

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 15.6y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 15.6 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: medium (79/100)

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

47 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,440,661

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£107k

Net Worth

£3.4m

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Profit before tax	—	£101.3k
Cash	£107.1k	—
Net assets	£3.44M	—
Average employees	—	3100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 address

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 address

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-04-21
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address · AD01
2026-04-21
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officers · CH01
2026-04-21
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-21
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-06-13
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2024-04-25
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2023-06-22
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2022-09-29
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2021-03-05
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2020-04-24
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2019-04-19
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2018-02-01
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2017-06-07
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2016-05-05
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2010-10-07
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2010-07-02
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Company incorporated
As JIM WILMER & SONS TIMBER HARVESTING LTD.
2010-07-02
➕
WILMER, James appointed
secretary
2010-07-02
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WILMER, David appointed
director
2010-07-02
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WILMER, James appointed
director
2010-07-02
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-secretary
2010-07-02
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-secretary
2010-07-02
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MABBOTT, Stephen George appointed
director
2010-07-02
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MABBOTT, Stephen George resigned
director

Owner dependency

100/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "WILMER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 65. 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 16 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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

Jim Wilmer & Sons (Holdings) Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Jim Wilmer & Sons (Holdings) Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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JIM WILMER & SONS TIMBER HARVESTING LTD.

This company · SC381371

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
Jim Wilmer & Sons (Holdings) Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2010-07-02

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC02200 — SIC 02200

Registered office

Roselle Workshop

4 Dalquharran

Dailly

KA26 9QJ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-16

Last: 2025-07-02

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WILMER, James→

secretary · appointed 2010-07-02

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Active

WILMER, David→

director · ~42y · appointed 2010-07-02

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Active

WILMER, James→

director · ~65y · appointed 2010-07-02

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Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2010-07-02 · resigned 2010-07-02

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen George→

director · ~76y · appointed 2010-07-02 · resigned 2010-07-02

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	07/10/2010	—

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Recent filings (47 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2026-04-21

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-04-21

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date

officers · CH03

2026-04-21

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-07-21

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-07-21

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC05

2025-07-02

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-06-13

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-07-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2024-04-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-07-14

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-06-22

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2022-09-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-07-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-07-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-03-05