EAST COAST VINERS GRAIN (DRUMLITHIE) LIMITED

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SC465482 · ltd · incorporated 2013-12-09
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 11.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£55.24M
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
—
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10910
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Leverage-led grower with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 11.1y

95/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 7 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
14 connected companies via shared directors
87
Filing history
36 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
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 · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,849,883
Turned profitable
Returned to profit this year
Turnover YoY
-2%
Year on year

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
Turnover£55.24M£56.41M
Gross profit£2.52M£242.3k
Operating profit£2.11M£-24.4k
Profit before tax£1.85M£-442.2k
Average employees66006600

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
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 (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-10
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2021-08-31
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    FORBES, John resigned
    director
  8. 2021-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-03-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2020-11-07
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    FORBES, Alistair Graham Milne resigned
    director
  11. 2020-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-02-21
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    officers · AP01
  14. 2019-02-19
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    FORBES, John appointed
    director
  15. 2018-12-21
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2018-12-20
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2018-12-11
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    DALY, Ryan appointed
    director
  18. 2018-12-11
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    STEPHEN, Richard appointed
    director
  19. 2018-09-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  20. 2018-09-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  21. 2018-09-10
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  22. 2018-09-04
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    FORBES, Graham Alexander appointed
    director
  23. 2018-06-18
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    FORBES, Robert Michael resigned
    director
  24. 2018-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  25. 2015-05-19
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  26. 2015-04-23
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  27. 2015-02-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 2013-12-09
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    Company incorporated
    As EAST COAST VINERS GRAIN (DRUMLITHIE) LIMITED
  29. 2013-12-09
    ➕
    FORBES, John Inglis appointed
    director
  30. 2013-12-09
    ➕
    FORBES, Alistair Graham Milne appointed
    director
  31. 2013-12-09
    ➕
    FORBES, Robert Michael appointed
    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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 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

East Coast Viners (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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East Coast Viners (Holdings) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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EAST COAST VINERS GRAIN (DRUMLITHIE) LIMITED
This company · SC465482

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
East Coast Viners (Holdings) Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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

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

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8 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
Incorporated2013-12-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10910 — SIC 10910

Registered office

Broadwood
Drumlithie
Stonehaven
Aberdeenshire
AB39 3XA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last: 2025-10-17

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

DALY, Ryan→
director · ~42y · appointed 2018-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FORBES, Graham Alexander→
director · ~57y · appointed 2018-09-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FORBES, John Inglis→
director · ~79y · appointed 2013-12-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STEPHEN, Richard→
director · ~54y · appointed 2018-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FORBES, Alistair Graham Milne→
director · ~87y · appointed 2013-12-09 · resigned 2020-11-07
Resigned
FORBES, John→
director · ~57y · appointed 2019-02-19 · resigned 2021-08-31
Resigned
FORBES, Robert Michael→
director · ~84y · appointed 2013-12-09 · resigned 2018-06-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property19/05/2015—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—23/04/2015—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—26/02/2015—
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Recent filings (36 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-24
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-03-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-26