BIG BOLT ENGINEERING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02194670 · ltd · incorporated 1987-11-17
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 28.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46610
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). 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 28.3y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 28.3 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 (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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
108 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
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 | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 700 | 800 |
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
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-12-08📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-04-07📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2024-04-07📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2024-04-06➕MACINTOSH, Philip James appointeddirector
- 2024-04-05➖ROBINSON, Susan Vicki resignedsecretary
- 2023-09-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-25📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2020-12-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-01📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2020-06-01📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-04-20📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-04-20📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2020-04-20📄capital-alter-shares-subdivisioncapital · SH02
- 2020-04-20📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-03-25📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2020-03-16➕ROBINSON, Rebecca Marie appointeddirector
- 2020-03-16➕ROBINSON, William John appointeddirector
- 2012-10-31➖ROBINSON, Matthew James resigneddirector
- 2001-10-26➕ROBINSON, Matthew James appointeddirector
- 1998-03-30🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1987-11-17🏢Company incorporatedAs BIG BOLT ENGINEERING LIMITED
Owner dependency
63/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — 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 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
William John Robinson Individual · British · DOB 03/1978 · age 48 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr James Irvine Robinsonceased 24/11/2020· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-11-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46610 — SIC 46610
Registered office
Collow Abbey Farm
East Torrington
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN8 5SE
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-28
Last: 2026-03-14
Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)
MACINTOSH, Philip James→
Activedirector · ~52y · appointed 2024-04-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROBINSON, Rebecca Marie→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2020-03-16
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ROBINSON, William John→
Activedirector · ~48y · appointed 2020-03-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ROBINSON, Susan Vicki→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2024-04-05
ROBINSON, Matthew James→
Resigneddirector · ~53y · appointed 2001-10-26 · resigned 2012-10-31
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Mortgage debenture | 1 property | 30/03/1998 | — |
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Recent filings (108 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-04-07
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-04-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-13
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-03-25