BRIT-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT LIMITED

📉Decliningactive
00760728 · ltd · incorporated 1963-05-13
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
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 59). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 8 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

11 live charges · 8 lenders · oldest 44.0y

25/100
too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

  • · Oldest live charge is 44.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · 8 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Legal-friction score 45/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
11 charges (11/11 with lender, 11/11 with type)
90
Directors & officers
20 officers (3 active, 20 linked, 14 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
159 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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Loss-making
Loss before tax £445,029
Slipped into loss
Moved from profit to loss this 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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Profit before tax£-445.0k£1.04M
Average employees17117900

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (73 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-28
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-05-07
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    MCNINCH, Robbie Andrew resigned
    director
  3. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-01-30
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    HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan resigned
    director
  5. 2025-01-30
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2024-12-11
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  7. 2024-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-04-18
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  9. 2023-06-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-02-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  11. 2022-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-01-13
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  13. 2021-11-03
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2021-10-29
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    DURANTI, Peter Nicholas resigned
    director
  15. 2021-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-05-05
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  17. 2021-05-05
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  18. 2021-05-05
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    Charge satisfied #8
  19. 2021-05-05
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    Charge satisfied #7
  20. 2021-03-09
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  21. 2021-03-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  22. 2021-03-03
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  23. 2021-03-03
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  24. 2021-03-03
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  25. 2021-03-03
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  26. 2021-03-03
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    Charge satisfied #9
  27. 2021-03-02
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    Charge registered #11
    Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
  28. 2021-03-01
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    WARING, Tracey appointed
    secretary
  29. 2021-03-01
    ➕
    WARING, Tracey appointed
    director
  30. 2021-03-01
    ➖
    HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan resigned
    secretary
  31. 2021-03-01
    ➖
    CARMAN, William Roderick resigned
    director
  32. 2021-03-01
    ➕
    DURANTI, Peter Nicholas appointed
    director
  33. 2021-02-17
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    Charge registered #10
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  34. 2020-06-23
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    Charge registered #9
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  35. 2017-01-03
    ➖
    ATKINSON, Ian resigned
    secretary
  36. 2017-01-03
    ➕
    HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan appointed
    secretary
  37. 2017-01-03
    ➖
    ATKINSON, Ian resigned
    director
  38. 2017-01-03
    ➕
    HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan appointed
    director
  39. 2016-03-01
    ➕
    MCNINCH, Robbie Andrew appointed
    director
  40. 2015-05-01
    ➕
    ATKINSON, Ian appointed
    secretary
  41. 2015-04-30
    ➖
    CARMAN, Sally Jane resigned
    secretary
  42. 2014-11-30
    ➖
    BROOKS, Michael Andrew resigned
    director
  43. 2013-03-04
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    ATKINSON, Ian appointed
    director
  44. 2011-07-19
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    Charge registered #8
    Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
  45. 2011-04-21
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    CARMAN, Sally Jane appointed
    secretary
  46. 2011-04-21
    ➖
    PARKER, Wendy Christine resigned
    secretary
  47. 2011-02-16
    ➖
    CARMAN, William Douglas Ronald resigned
    director
  48. 2010-03-11
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    Charge satisfied #6
  49. 2010-03-11
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    Charge satisfied #5
  50. 2010-03-11
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    Charge satisfied #4
Showing most recent 50 of 73 events

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 63 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

1 med ·
Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Brit European Transport(Holdings)Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Brit European Transport(Holdings)Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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BRIT-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT LIMITED
This company · 00760728

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
Brit European Transport(Holdings)Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares30/06/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1963-05-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Vita Nova Centre
Sanderson Way
Middlewich
Cheshire
CW10 0GU
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-19
Last: 2025-12-05

Officers (3 active · 17 resigned)

WARING, Tracey→
secretary · appointed 2021-03-01
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Active
LACKEY, Graham David→
director · ~59y · appointed 2008-05-06
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Active
WARING, Tracey→
director · ~54y · appointed 2021-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ATKINSON, Ian→
secretary · appointed 2015-05-01 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned
CARMAN, Emily Jean→
secretary · resigned 2005-12-29
Resigned
CARMAN, Sally Jane→
secretary · appointed 2011-04-21 · resigned 2015-04-30
Resigned
HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan→
secretary · appointed 2017-01-03 · resigned 2021-03-01
Resigned
PARKER, Wendy Christine→
secretary · appointed 2005-12-29 · resigned 2011-04-21
Resigned
ATKINSON, Ian→
director · ~63y · appointed 2013-03-04 · resigned 2017-01-03
Resigned
BROOKS, Michael Andrew→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-05-01 · resigned 2014-11-30
Resigned
CARMAN, Emily Jean→
director · ~101y · resigned 2006-04-25
Resigned
CARMAN, William Roderick→
director · ~69y · appointed 2008-12-24 · resigned 2021-03-01
Resigned
CARMAN, William Douglas Ronald→
director · ~102y · resigned 2011-02-16
Resigned
CARMAN, William Roderick→
director · ~69y · resigned 2008-10-31
Resigned
DURANTI, Peter Nicholas→
director · ~62y · appointed 2021-03-01 · resigned 2021-10-29
Resigned
HAMMOND, Anthony Brian→
director · ~82y · appointed 2002-12-04 · resigned 2008-10-31
Resigned
HODGSON, Andrew Jonathan→
director · ~62y · appointed 2017-01-03 · resigned 2025-01-30
Resigned
HOYLE, Edward Andrew→
director · ~65y · appointed 1997-07-01 · resigned 1999-10-19
Resigned
MCNINCH, Robbie Andrew→
director · ~51y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2026-05-07
Resigned
POTTS, Martin Herbert→
director · ~74y · resigned 2008-04-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

11
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:11 of 11 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
A registered charge—02/03/2021—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property17/02/2021—
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge—23/06/202003/03/2021
satisfied
NatWest Group
Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
All asset debenture1 property19/07/201105/05/2021
satisfied
NatWest Group
Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
Debenture1 property12/12/200705/05/2021
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
Deed of admission to an omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement dated 06 april 20001 property24/01/200611/03/2010
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
A deed of admission to an omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement (ogsa) dated 6TH april 20001 property26/09/200511/03/2010
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited
All assets debenture deed1 property31/12/200311/03/2010
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Charge1 property02/08/198911/03/2010
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Single debenture1 property10/12/198714/12/2007
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank LTD
Debenture1 property09/07/198211/02/1988
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Recent filings (159 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-01-30
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-04-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-22
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-06
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2022-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-06