486 LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03310365 · ltd · incorporated 1997-01-30
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 Sept 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 49390
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
75 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

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Gross profit—£2.28M
Profit before tax—£146.0k
Average employees10001100

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  2. 2025-04-25
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  3. 2024-06-27
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  4. 2023-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-06-24
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-06-30
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-15
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  8. 2021-03-15
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  9. 2021-03-15
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  10. 2020-06-30
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  11. 2019-06-27
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  12. 2019-03-27
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  13. 2018-06-30
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  14. 2017-06-30
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  15. 2016-06-30
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  16. 2008-09-11
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    O'TOOLE, Paula Margaret appointed
    director
  17. 1997-02-17
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    O'TOOLE, Paula Margaret appointed
    secretary
  18. 1997-02-17
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    PAXMAN, Roger William appointed
    director
  19. 1997-02-17
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    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  20. 1997-02-17
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    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  21. 1997-01-30
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    Company incorporated
    As 486 LIMITED
  22. 1997-01-30
    ➕
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1997-01-30
    ➕
    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED appointed
    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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — 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 65. 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 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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 Roger William Paxman
Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/10/2016

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
Incorporated1997-01-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49390 — SIC 49390

Registered office

3 Durham Street
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 1NA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-13
Last: 2026-01-30

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

O'TOOLE, Paula Margaret→
secretary · appointed 1997-02-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
O'TOOLE, Paula Margaret→
director · ~62y · appointed 2008-09-11
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Active
PAXMAN, Roger William→
director · ~65y · appointed 1997-02-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-01-30 · resigned 1997-02-17
Resigned
BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-01-30 · resigned 1997-02-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (75 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-06-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-03-15
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-03-15
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2021-03-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-01