G & A M LAWSON LIMITED

📈Growthactive

02753264 · ltd · incorporated 1992-10-06

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 32.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£16.25M

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

—

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

43110Demolition
77320Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 90). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 32.9y

80/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 32.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (8 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

107 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,423,131

Strong revenue growth

Turnover up 24% YoY

Turnover YoY

+24%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Turnover	£16.25M	£13.09M
Gross profit	£2.96M	£2.71M
Operating profit	£1.45M	£1.09M
Profit before tax	£1.42M	£1.41M
Average employees	9300	8600

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-03-25
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accounts · AA
2025-06-24
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accounts · AA
2025-05-29
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mortgage · MR01
2025-05-15
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Ocf Developments Limited
2024-04-03
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accounts · AA
2023-04-15
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accounts · AA
2022-06-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-15
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officers · CH01
2020-12-15
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officers · CH01
2020-12-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-12-15
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2020-03-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-26
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2019-06-26
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2019-06-26
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Charge satisfied #2
2019-06-26
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Charge satisfied #1
2019-06-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-04-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
1998-12-10
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Midland Bank PLC
1998-11-03
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THOMSON, Mark appointed
director
1993-10-06
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1993-10-06
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1993-08-16
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Midland Bank PLC
1992-11-02
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LAWSON, Alan appointed
director
1992-11-02
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LAWSON, Annie Mary appointed
director
1992-11-02
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LAWSON, David appointed
director
1992-11-02
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LAWSON, John Langcake appointed
director
1992-11-02
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THOMSON, Barbara appointed
director
1992-10-06
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Company incorporated
As G & A M LAWSON LIMITED
1992-10-06
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THOMSON, Barbara appointed
secretary
1992-10-06
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1992-10-06
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "LAWSON" — 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 90 — 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 candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 90 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1992-10-06

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC38110 — SIC 38110

Registered office

Whinbank Farm

Distington

Workington

Cumbria

CA14 4QH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-20

Last: 2025-10-06