IONA PODS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
SC560386 · ltd · incorporated 2017-03-14
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 8.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£265.7k
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
73/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: conservative operator with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 73/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (70/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.9y

95/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.9 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 (82/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
28 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.

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Opportunity Score
73/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
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
Profitable
Profit before tax £70,759
Strong revenue growth
Turnover up 28% YoY
Turnover YoY
+28%
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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£265.7k£206.9k
Profit before tax£70.8k—
Average employees400400

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-14
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  2. 2025-05-16
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  3. 2025-05-16
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  4. 2025-05-16
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  5. 2025-05-16
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  6. 2024-10-12
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  7. 2023-10-23
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  8. 2022-06-28
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  9. 2021-09-07
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-06-10
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    LIVINGSTON, Bryan David appointed
    director
  11. 2021-06-10
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    LIVINGSTON, Bryan David resigned
    director
  12. 2021-06-10
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  13. 2021-06-10
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  14. 2021-06-10
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  15. 2021-06-10
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  16. 2020-08-20
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  17. 2019-10-16
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  18. 2018-11-30
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  19. 2017-07-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2017-03-14
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    Company incorporated
    As IONA PODS LIMITED
  21. 2017-03-14
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Glen David appointed
    director
  22. 2017-03-14
    ➕
    LIVINGSTON, Bryan David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

58/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.

Succession & seller-readiness

36/100
Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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G&Z Properties (Iona) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares · board control
majority
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Livingston Holdings (Oban) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
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IONA PODS LIMITED
This company · SC560386

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
G&Z Properties (Iona) Ltd
Corporate entity
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control02/05/2025
Livingston Holdings (Oban) Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control15/03/2025
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Bryan David Livingstonceased 15/03/2025· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Glen Macdonaldceased 02/05/2025· 50-75% shares
  • Mr Bryan Livingstonceased 10/06/2021· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2017-03-14
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55900 — Other accommodation

Registered office

Cnocoran
Isle Of Iona
Isle Of Iona
Argyll
PA76 6SP
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-15
Last: 2026-03-01

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

LIVINGSTON, Bryan David→
director · ~40y · appointed 2021-06-10
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Active
MACDONALD, Glen David→
director · ~42y · appointed 2017-03-14
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Active
LIVINGSTON, Bryan David→
director · ~40y · appointed 2017-03-14 · resigned 2021-06-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—04/07/2017—
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Recent filings (28 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-09-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-05-16
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-05-16
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-05-16
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-05-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-07