WOODSIDE MOTORS (SERVICES) LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01876236 · ltd · incorporated 1985-01-10
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 36.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). 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 36.7y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.7 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 (79/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
96 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 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 · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-01-31 | 2024-01-31 |
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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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-08📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-06-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-17📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-03-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-07-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-08-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-11-16📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2018-10-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-10-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-01-12📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 1999-03-30➕DAVIES, Anthony Mark appointeddirector
- 1996-03-31➕DAVIES, Philip appointedsecretary
- 1996-03-31➖DAVIES, Eileen resignedsecretary
- 1989-09-11🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 1985-01-10🏢Company incorporatedAs WOODSIDE MOTORS (SERVICES) LIMITED
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 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
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 |
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Mr Philip Davies Individual · British · DOB 08/1949 · age 77 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Eileen Davies Individual · British · DOB 03/1950 · age 76 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Anthony Mark Davies Individual · British · DOB 03/1978 · age 48 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 17/03/2025 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1985-01-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200
Registered office
44 Croxteth Drive
Rainford
St Helens
Merseyside
WA11 8LA
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-21
Last: 2025-11-07
Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)
Active
DAVIES, Anthony Mark→
Activedirector · ~48y · appointed 1999-03-30
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Active
Active
DAVIES, Eileen→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 1996-03-31
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 11/09/1989 | — |
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Recent filings (96 total)
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-13
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-03-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-24