AISBY HAULAGE & PLANT LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01356934 · ltd · incorporated 1978-03-10
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 41.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). 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 41.7y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 41.7 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: medium (70/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
95 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 100 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 4 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-23📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-03-19📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-03-19📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-03-06📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-11-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-25📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2025-02-25📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2024-12-16➖RIDDLE, Angela Shirley resignedsecretary
- 2024-12-16➖RIDDLE, Angela Shirley resigneddirector
- 2024-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-14📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-12-14📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-12-14📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-09➕RIDDLE, Andrew Paul appointeddirector
- 2022-12-09➕RIDDLE, James Robert appointeddirector
- 2022-12-09➕RIDDLE, Mark Tharratt appointeddirector
- 2021-10-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-27📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2020-02-27📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2019-08-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-28➖RIDDLE, John Martin resigneddirector
- 1984-10-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Midland Bank PLC
- 1978-03-10🏢Company incorporatedAs AISBY HAULAGE & PLANT LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
60/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 48 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Andrew Paul Riddle Individual · British · DOB 10/1963 · age 63 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 25/02/2026 |
Mr James Robert Riddle Individual · British · DOB 07/1965 · age 61 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 12/03/2025 |
Mr Mark Tharratt Riddle Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 12/03/2025 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mrs Angela Shirley Riddleceased 12/03/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Mr John Martin Riddleceased 28/06/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 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
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1978-03-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road
Registered office
Hall Farm
Corringham
Lincs
DN21 5QX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-11
Last: 2026-02-25
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
RIDDLE, Andrew Paul→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2022-12-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RIDDLE, James Robert→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2022-12-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RIDDLE, Mark Tharratt→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2022-12-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RIDDLE, Angela Shirley→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2024-12-16
RIDDLE, Angela Shirley→
Resigneddirector · ~91y · resigned 2024-12-16
RIDDLE, John Martin→
Resigneddirector · ~91y · resigned 2019-06-28
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Midland Bank Midland Bank PLC | Fixed and floating charge | 1 property | 17/10/1984 | — |
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Recent filings (95 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-25
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-02-25
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-02-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-12-14
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-12-14