TRAIGH MHOR OYSTERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC459505 · ltd · incorporated 2013-09-19

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 8.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03210

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). 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 8.6y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 8.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

19 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

65 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	400	400

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

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand

2026-02-27
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2026-02-27
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Charge satisfied #1
2025-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-23
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-08-23
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-08-23
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-09-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-04
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-02-04
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-11-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-08-11
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-01-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-12-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-04-19
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-04-19
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officers · TM01
2018-04-12
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WRIGHT, Iain resigned
director
2017-11-02
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Highlands and Islands Enterprise
2015-03-09
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MACDONALD, Gerard appointed
director
2015-03-09
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MACDONALD, Martin Roderick appointed
director
2015-03-09
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MACLEOD, Donald William appointed
director
2015-03-09
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WRIGHT, Iain appointed
director
2013-10-04
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JESS, David Campbell appointed
secretary
2013-10-04
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JESS, Archibald Allan appointed
director
2013-10-04
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JESS, David Campbell, Mr. appointed
director
2013-10-04
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HMS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2013-10-04
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MUNRO, Donald John resigned
director
2013-10-04
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HMS DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2013-09-19
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Company incorporated
As TRAIGH MHOR OYSTERS LIMITED
2013-09-19
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HMS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2013-09-19
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MUNRO, Donald John appointed
director
2013-09-19
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HMS DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
corporate-director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 13 years.
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

A P Jess Ltd. is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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A P Jess Ltd.

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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TRAIGH MHOR OYSTERS LIMITED

This company · SC459505

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
A P Jess Ltd. Corporate entity	75–100%	25–50%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Archibald Allan Jessceased 01/01/2022· 25-50% voting · significant influence · firm interest
Mr David Campbell Jessceased 16/04/2016· 25-50% voting · significant influence · firm interest

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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Similar companies

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ARDARDAN ESTATE LTD.→ SC302812 · est 2006	—	—	£892.6k	—	20y	83	73y
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ALBAR LANDSCAPES LIMITED→ SC111284 · est 1988	—	—	£1.54M	—	38y	82	65y
BRORA FISHING COMPANY LIMITED→ SC233209 · est 2002	—	—	£606.1k	—	23y	82	74y
INSHORE FISHING LTD→ SC263540 · est 2004	—	—	—	200	22y	82	71y
J. ORR & COMPANY LIMITED→ SC230625 · est 2002	—	—	£1.87M	—	24y	82	82y
J.R. MACGREGOR (DYKE) LIMITED→ SC135312 · est 1991	—	—	£780.9k	—	34y	82	85y
MOSSNEUK FARM (FORESIDE) LIMITED→ SC223005 · est 2001	—	—	£501.2k	—	24y	82	72y
ALTA LIMITED→ SC166236 · est 1996	—	—	—	43	29y	80	62y
ANNANDALE TREE SURGERY LIMITED→ SC258313 · est 2003	—	—	£62.5k	—	22y	80	62y
BOOMHOUR BROOK FOREST LIMITED→ SC335637 · est 2007	—	—	—	—	18y	80	81y
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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2013-09-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03210 — SIC 03210

Registered office

The Green

Twechar

Glasgow

Lanarkshire

G65 9QA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-03

Last: 2025-09-19