G MOORE HAULAGE LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
02710175 · ltd · incorporated 1992-04-28
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
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
£2.43M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38110
Sector: Water supply & waste
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 38210SIC 38210
  • 46770SIC 46770
  • 49410Freight transport by road
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -56% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 34.0y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 34.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
93 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,425,205
Cash draining
Cash down 56% YoY
Cash YoY
-56%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£325k
↓ 56% YoY
Net Worth
£2.4m
↑ 27% YoY
Current Assets
£937k
↓ 36% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£485k£970k£1.5m£1.9m£2.4mJul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Total assets£2.57M£2.00M
Current assets£937.0k£1.47M
Cash£324.6k£743.5k
Debtors£612.4k£722.2k
Net assets£2.43M£1.92M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-24
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  2. 2025-04-29
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  3. 2024-04-29
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  4. 2023-04-27
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  5. 2022-04-26
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  6. 2022-04-13
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  7. 2022-04-13
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  8. 2022-04-13
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  9. 2022-03-31
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    MOORE, Glen resigned
    director
  10. 2021-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-07-30
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  12. 2019-04-01
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  13. 2018-02-21
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  14. 2016-11-30
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  15. 2016-04-28
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  16. 2015-10-16
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  17. 2004-03-30
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  18. 1996-12-04
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  19. 1992-07-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  20. 1992-05-22
    ➕
    MOORE, Gary appointed
    secretary
  21. 1992-05-22
    ➕
    MOORE, Gary appointed
    director
  22. 1992-05-22
    ➖
    KEARNS, Suzanne Jane resigned
    secretary
  23. 1992-05-22
    ➖
    FOWLER, Alison Francis resigned
    director
  24. 1992-05-22
    ➖
    MAY, Nigel Campbell resigned
    director
  25. 1992-05-22
    ➕
    MOORE, Glen appointed
    director
  26. 1992-04-28
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    Company incorporated
    As G MOORE HAULAGE LIMITED
  27. 1992-04-28
    ➕
    KEARNS, Suzanne Jane appointed
    secretary
  28. 1992-04-28
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1992-04-28
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1992-04-28
    ➕
    FOWLER, Alison Francis appointed
    director
  31. 1992-04-28
    ➕
    MAY, Nigel Campbell appointed
    director

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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MOORE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 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 Gary Moore
Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Glen Mooreceased 31/03/2022· 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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9 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1992-04-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38110 — SIC 38110

Registered office

C/O Manor Road
Kempston Hardwick
Bedford
MK43 9NT

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-12
Last: 2026-04-28

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

MOORE, Gary→
secretary · appointed 1992-05-22
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Active
MOORE, Gary→
director · ~67y · appointed 1992-05-22
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Active
KEARNS, Suzanne Jane→
secretary · appointed 1992-04-28 · resigned 1992-05-22
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-04-28 · resigned 1992-04-28
Resigned
FOWLER, Alison Francis→
director · ~65y · appointed 1992-04-28 · resigned 1992-05-22
Resigned
MAY, Nigel Campbell→
director · ~61y · appointed 1992-04-28 · resigned 1992-05-22
Resigned
MOORE, Glen→
director · ~71y · appointed 1992-05-22 · resigned 2022-03-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property30/03/2004—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property04/12/1996—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property10/07/1992—
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Recent filings (93 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-04-13
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-04-13
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-28