ALLIED FUELS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02712437 · ltd · incorporated 1992-05-06
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46120
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 47300Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
90 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-31
Average employees200

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  4. 2024-05-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  5. 2024-05-14
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  6. 2023-10-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-09-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-09-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-11-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-08-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-09-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-09-01
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2016-07-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2016-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-05-09
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    annual-return · AR01
  17. 1992-05-06
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    Company incorporated
    As ALLIED FUELS LIMITED
  18. 1992-05-06
    ➕
    EXELBY, Michael appointed
    secretary
  19. 1992-05-06
    ➕
    EXELBY, Michael appointed
    director
  20. 1992-05-06
    ➕
    HOLMES, William Stanley appointed
    director
  21. 1992-05-06
    ➕
    CORPORATE NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1992-05-06
    ➖
    CORPORATE NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1992-05-06
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    CORPORATE NOMINEE SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 1992-05-06
    ➖
    CORPORATE NOMINEE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Uk Fuels Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Exelby Services Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ALLIED FUELS LIMITED
This company · 02712437

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Uk Fuels Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Exelby Services Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Michael Exelbyceased 06/04/2016· 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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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1992-05-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46120 — SIC 46120

Registered office

Coneygarth House Leases Road
Leeming Bar
Northallerton
North Yorkshire
DL7 9FE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-15
Last: 2025-05-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

EXELBY, Michael→
secretary · appointed 1992-05-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
EXELBY, Michael→
director · ~69y · appointed 1992-05-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOLMES, William Stanley→
director · ~62y · appointed 1992-05-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CORPORATE NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-05-06 · resigned 1992-05-06
Resigned
CORPORATE NOMINEE SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1992-05-06 · resigned 1992-05-06
Resigned

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Recent filings (90 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-15
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-05-14
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-05-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-14