BOWER GREEN WAREHOUSING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00880701 · ltd · incorporated 1966-06-03
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 43.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Jul 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (80/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 43.0y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 43.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
100 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
77
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
£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31

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 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  2. 2025-04-29
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  3. 2024-04-22
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  4. 2023-02-03
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  5. 2022-04-13
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  6. 2021-02-22
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  7. 2020-04-01
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  8. 2019-02-22
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  9. 2018-03-01
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  10. 2017-05-04
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-02-01
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  12. 2015-08-24
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  13. 2015-08-24
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    officers · TM01
  14. 2015-08-24
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    officers · TM02
  15. 2015-06-23
    PATTISON, Ian resigned
    secretary
  16. 2015-06-23
    PATTISON, Ian resigned
    director
  17. 2015-04-16
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    accounts · AA
  18. 1998-04-22
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    Charge satisfied #3
  19. 1998-04-22
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    Charge satisfied #2
  20. 1998-04-22
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    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 1991-10-23
    PATTISON, Alan Mark appointed
    director
  22. 1988-07-25
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  23. 1986-01-24
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1983-07-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Dawson International Group Services LTD
  25. 1966-06-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BOWER GREEN WAREHOUSING LIMITED

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 60 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

Bower Green Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Bower Green Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
BOWER GREEN WAREHOUSING LIMITED
This company · 00880701

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
Bower Green Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75-100% shares06/04/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated1966-06-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Dryden Street
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 5ND

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-10
Last: 2025-07-27

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

PATTISON, Alan Mark
director · ~59y · appointed 1991-10-23
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Active
PATTISON, Roger Michael
director · ~61y
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Active
PATTISON, Ian
secretary · resigned 2015-06-23
Resigned
PATTISON, Ian
director · ~78y · resigned 2015-06-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property25/07/198822/04/1998
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property24/01/198622/04/1998
satisfied
Dawson International Group Services
Dawson International Group Services LTD
Legal charge1 property15/07/198322/04/1998

Recent filings (100 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-02-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-04-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-02-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-02-22