UNITED KINGDOM LUBRICANTS ASSOCIATION LTD

🌳Matureactive

00936857 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1968-08-07

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 9.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£794.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). 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 9.3y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 9.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

90 officers (16 active, 90 linked, 85 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

233 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £794,273

Net assets shrinking

Down £16,688 YoY

Cash YoY

-5%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£611k

↓ 4.7% YoY

Net Worth

£794k

↓ 2.1% YoY

Current Assets

£690k

↓ 2.1% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£956.5k	£979.4k
Current assets	£690.0k	£704.8k
Cash	£610.7k	£641.0k
Debtors	£79.2k	£63.7k
Net assets	£794.3k	£811.0k

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

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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

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (173 events)Click to expand

2026-05-08
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officers · TM01
2026-05-06
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WALLER, Abigail resigned
director
2025-09-30
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accounts · AA
2025-02-12
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officers · CH01
2025-02-12
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2025-02-12
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officers · CH01
2025-01-02
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officers · TM01
2024-12-31
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VICKERS, Peter John Farrar resigned
director
2024-11-04
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officers · AP01
2024-09-30
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accounts · AA
2024-09-13
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WALLER, Abigail appointed
director
2024-07-10
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officers · AP01
2024-06-10
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officers · AP01
2024-05-09
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ADAMSKI, Sinead appointed
director
2024-05-09
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COOPER, David appointed
director
2024-04-08
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officers · TM01
2024-04-06
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BERRYMAN, Jacqueline resigned
director
2023-09-28
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accounts · AA
2022-11-28
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officers · AP01
2022-11-17
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WRIGHT, David Peter appointed
director
2022-10-01
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MACKLAM, Catherine Sheila resigned
director
2022-10-01
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officers · TM01
2022-09-26
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accounts · AA
2022-05-31
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officers · CH01
2022-03-17
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officers · AP01
2022-02-21
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MILTON, Jonathan David appointed
director
2022-02-17
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officers · TM01
2022-02-16
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BARTLE, Matthew John resigned
director
2021-11-22
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officers · AP01
2021-11-16
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BARKER, Mark Andrew appointed
director
2021-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-01
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RYDER, John Paul resigned
director
2020-09-08
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LEAR, Simon appointed
director
2020-06-30
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WOOD, Robert William resigned
director
2019-12-01
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MACKLAM, Catherine Sheila appointed
director
2019-06-13
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MANN, Martyn Dennis resigned
director
2018-11-01
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DUNCAN, Kevin John appointed
director
2018-11-01
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BARTLE, Matthew John appointed
director
2018-09-01
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GRIEVE, Neil resigned
director
2018-08-10
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BRANDER, Simon Alan resigned
director
2018-03-01
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BOOTH, Paul appointed
director
2018-01-01
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RYDER, John Paul appointed
director
2017-11-21
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MAYO, Stephen John resigned
director
2017-09-12
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OOSTING, Harald appointed
director
2017-09-12
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BERRYMAN, Jacqueline appointed
director
2017-09-12
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VICKERS, Peter John Farrar appointed
director
2017-03-01
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CRAWSHAW, Hugh Sebastian resigned
director
2017-02-17
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2017-01-01
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SMITH, Marc Anthony resigned
director
2016-10-04
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GRIEVE, Neil appointed
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-16 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr. David Julian Wright Individual · British · DOB 04/1964 · age 62	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	11/06/2020

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Nigel Robert Bottomceased 11/06/2020· significant influence

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1968-08-07

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94110 — Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Registered office

Ukla House 13 Chess Business Park

Moor Road

Chesham

Buckinghamshire

HP5 1SD

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-26

Last: 2025-11-12