BILL SMITH MOTORS (LIVERPOOL) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02259530 · ltd · incorporated 1988-05-18
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 36.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 91-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 91). 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 36.5y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.5 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 (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
111 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 accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Average employees2200

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-10-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-04-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-04-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-02-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-01-11
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  9. 2019-08-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-10-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-10-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-11-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-11-11
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-10-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-11-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 1993-10-30
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    WILDING, Geoffrey Mark resigned
    director
  17. 1993-10-25
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    SMITH, William Austin appointed
    director
  18. 1989-12-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  19. 1988-05-18
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    Company incorporated
    As BILL SMITH MOTORS (LIVERPOOL) LIMITED

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "SMITH" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 91 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 91 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr William Austin Smith
Individual · British · DOB 02/1935 · age 91
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1988-05-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

31 Wellington Road
Nantwich
Cheshire
CW5 7ED

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-08
Last: 2025-10-25

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SMITH, Karen Lesley→
secretary
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Active
SMITH, Karen Lesley→
director · ~59y
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Active
SMITH, William Austin→
director · ~91y · appointed 1993-10-25
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Active
WILDING, Geoffrey Mark→
director · ~63y · resigned 1993-10-30
Resigned

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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 property13/12/1989—
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Recent filings (111 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-04-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-02-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-11
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2021-01-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-05