SPECIALIST CAR CARE SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03266729 · ltd · incorporated 1996-10-22
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 29.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Specialised cleaning services
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 29.5y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.5 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 (82/100)

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
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
90 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-30
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  2. 2025-12-17
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  3. 2024-12-19
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  4. 2024-08-30
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  5. 2024-06-13
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  6. 2023-12-12
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  7. 2023-05-25
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    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  8. 2022-12-15
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-04-16
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-08-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  13. 2019-01-10
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  14. 2018-06-04
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    address · AD01
  15. 2018-04-27
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  16. 2018-01-20
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  17. 2018-01-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
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  18. 2017-07-03
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    CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan resigned
    secretary
  19. 2017-07-03
    ➖
    CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan resigned
    director
  20. 2017-07-03
    ➖
    FORDHAM, Leonard Frank resigned
    director
  21. 1997-01-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  22. 1996-10-23
    ➕
    DAY, Gary Kenneth appointed
    director
  23. 1996-10-23
    ➕
    DAY, Martin John Richard appointed
    director
  24. 1996-10-23
    ➕
    CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan appointed
    secretary
  25. 1996-10-23
    ➖
    WOLFF, Catherine Mary resigned
    secretary
  26. 1996-10-23
    ➕
    CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan appointed
    director
  27. 1996-10-23
    ➕
    FORDHAM, Leonard Frank appointed
    director
  28. 1996-10-23
    ➖
    GORDON FCCA, David resigned
    director
  29. 1996-10-22
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    Company incorporated
    As SPECIALIST CAR CARE SERVICES LIMITED
  30. 1996-10-22
    ➕
    WOLFF, Catherine Mary appointed
    secretary
  31. 1996-10-22
    ➕
    GORDON FCCA, David appointed
    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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — 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 66. 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 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Gary Kenneth Day
Individual · British · DOB 11/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting23/08/2017
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Martin John Richard Dayceased 30/08/2024· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Leonard Frank Fordhamceased 23/08/2017· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Steve Chlopasceased 23/08/2017· 25-50% shares

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

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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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1996-10-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC81222 — Specialised cleaning services

Registered office

Grovedell House
15 Knightswick Road
Canvey Island
Essex
SS8 9PA
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-26
Last: 2025-08-12

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

DAY, Gary Kenneth→
director · ~59y · appointed 1996-10-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DAY, Martin John Richard→
director · ~66y · appointed 1996-10-23
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Active
CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan→
secretary · appointed 1996-10-23 · resigned 2017-07-03
Resigned
WOLFF, Catherine Mary→
secretary · appointed 1996-10-22 · resigned 1996-10-23
Resigned
CHLOPAS, Steven Iwan→
director · ~71y · appointed 1996-10-23 · resigned 2017-07-03
Resigned
FORDHAM, Leonard Frank→
director · ~75y · appointed 1996-10-23 · resigned 2017-07-03
Resigned
GORDON FCCA, David→
director · ~84y · appointed 1996-10-22 · resigned 1996-10-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property30/01/1997—
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Recent filings (90 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-15
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2023-05-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-16