SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT TERMINAL LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
01224403 · ltd · incorporated 1975-08-29
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
—
Upgrade to see
Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
🔔
Follow this company (free)
Email alerts on filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices. No account needed.

Unsubscribe any time from any email. GDPR-respectful.

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 52103
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
101 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees100200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-15
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-03-29
    ➖
    BARBER, John Douglas resigned
    director
  3. 2025-09-29
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-09-16
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-09-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-09-26
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-10-01
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-21
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2021-04-21
    📄
    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  10. 2021-04-21
    📄
    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  11. 2021-04-21
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2021-02-02
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-01-18
    ➕
    BARBER-ATKINSON, Elizabeth Amanda appointed
    secretary
  14. 2021-01-18
    ➕
    ATKINSON, Trevor John appointed
    director
  15. 2021-01-18
    ➖
    BARBER, John Douglas resigned
    secretary
  16. 2021-01-18
    ➖
    BARBER-ATKINSON, Elizabeth Amanda resigned
    director
  17. 2020-03-10
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  18. 2020-03-10
    📄
    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  19. 2019-09-11
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-10-02
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2017-09-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2009-05-15
    ➖
    BARBER, Russell Kieron resigned
    director
  23. 2009-05-15
    ➕
    BARBER-ATKINSON, Elizabeth Amanda appointed
    director
  24. 2000-06-15
    ➖
    BARBER, Roy Malcolm resigned
    director
  25. 2000-06-15
    ➕
    BARBER, Russell Kieron appointed
    director
  26. 1975-08-29
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT TERMINAL LIMITED

Owner dependency

90/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

75/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 51 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

Five One Two Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Five One Two Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
⬇
SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT TERMINAL LIMITED
This company · 01224403

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
Five One Two Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting10/03/2020
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Elizabeth Amanda Barber-Atkinsonceased 10/03/2020· 75-100% shares

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

Similar companies

Active · Transport & logistics · S postcode area
CompanyEst. valueTurnoverNet worthStaffAgeOppDirector
1POUND PROMOTIONS LTD→
15470620 · est 2024 · no financials extracted
————2y——
1ST CALL HAULAGE LTD→
11746082 · est 2019 · no financials extracted
————7y——
1ST CLASS TRANSPORT (UK) LIMITED→
07002846 · est 2009 · no financials extracted
————16y——
1ST OF JULY LIMITED→
16524554 · est 2025 · no financials extracted
———————
2010 PRODUCTIONS LTD→
07097405 · est 2009 · no financials extracted
————16y——
24/7 DELIVERY LTD→
16515328 · est 2025 · no financials extracted
———————
2AM TRANSPORT LIMITED→
16705531 · est 2025 · no financials extracted
———————
2GETHER TRANSPORT SERVICE LTD→
15083037 · est 2023 · no financials extracted
————2y——
365 REMOVAL LTD→
16926661 · est 2025 · no financials extracted
———————
4S DISTRIBUTION LTD→
11103037 · est 2017 · no financials extracted
————8y——
999 PARCEL LIMITED→
09215203 · est 2014 · no financials extracted
————11y——
A&A COURIERS LTD→
15892942 · est 2024 · no financials extracted
————1y——
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →
🔒Advanced scoring suite

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1975-08-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC52103 — SIC 52103

Registered office

Hebblethwaites 2 Westbrook Court
Sharrow Vale Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S11 8YZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-24
Last: 2026-03-10

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

BARBER-ATKINSON, Elizabeth Amanda→
secretary · appointed 2021-01-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ATKINSON, Trevor John→
director · ~69y · appointed 2021-01-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BARBER, John Douglas→
secretary · resigned 2021-01-18
Resigned
BARBER, John Douglas→
director · ~96y · resigned 2026-03-29
Resigned
BARBER, Roy Malcolm→
director · ~90y · resigned 2000-06-15
Resigned
BARBER, Russell Kieron→
director · ~68y · appointed 2000-06-15 · resigned 2009-05-15
Resigned
BARBER-ATKINSON, Elizabeth Amanda→
director · ~66y · appointed 2009-05-15 · resigned 2021-01-18
Resigned

Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.

Recent filings (101 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-05-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-04-21
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-04-21
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2021-04-21