AMG INTERFREIGHT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01194262 · ltd · incorporated 1974-12-18
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 37.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 95-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 95). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 37.4y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 37.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
101 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-08-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-23
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  6. 2021-10-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-09-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2020-11-16
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  9. 2020-11-10
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    change-person-secretary-company
    officers · CH03
  10. 2020-11-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2020-11-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2020-11-09
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  13. 2020-11-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2020-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-09-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  17. 1998-11-11
    SMITH, Julie Evelyn appointed
    director
  18. 1989-01-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  19. 1974-12-18
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    Company incorporated
    As AMG INTERFREIGHT LIMITED

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 95 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 95 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 52 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Amg North Weald Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Amg North Weald Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
AMG INTERFREIGHT LIMITED
This company · 01194262

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
Amg North Weald Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control11/09/2020
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Glenn Donald Gillardceased 11/09/2020· 25-50% shares
  • Mr James Harry Atwellceased 11/09/2020· 25-50% shares

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1974-12-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

No 3 Building North Weald Airfield
North Weald Airfield
North Weald
Essex
CM16 6HR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-28
Last: 2025-09-14

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

SMITH, Julie Evelyn
secretary
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Active
ATWELL, James Harry
director · ~95y
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Active
GILLARD, Glenn Donald
director · ~74y
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Active
SMITH, Julie Evelyn
director · ~81y · appointed 1998-11-11
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Fixed and floating charge1 property10/01/1989
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Recent filings (101 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-23
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-09-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-09-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-11-16
change-person-secretary-company
officers · CH03
2020-11-10