DOUGLAS VALLEY BREAKERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03526783 · ltd · incorporated 1998-03-13

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 27.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 27.7y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 27.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

65 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	—	£764.0k
Current assets	—	£1.17M
Net assets	—	£159.4k
Average employees	6	—

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

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1 signal 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

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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2023-06-28
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2022-07-20
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2021-07-20
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2020-07-30
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2019-04-18
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2018-05-02
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2017-05-08
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2016-05-05
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2016-04-11
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annual-return · AR01
2015-05-06
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2015-04-09
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2014-03-18
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2006-03-31
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Charge registered #4
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2006-03-30
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Charge registered #3
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2005-05-13
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1998-09-22
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1998-03-13
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Company incorporated
As DOUGLAS VALLEY BREAKERS LIMITED
1998-03-13
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STRANGE, Stephen James appointed
secretary
1998-03-13
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MILLAR, Jason Nicholas appointed
director
1998-03-13
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STRANGE, Stephen James appointed
director
1998-03-13
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1998-03-13
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

76/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

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 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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

European Auto Recyclers Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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European Auto Recyclers Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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DOUGLAS VALLEY BREAKERS LIMITED

This company · 03526783

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
European Auto Recyclers Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1998-03-13

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC45320 — Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Registered office

Site 1 Bradley Lane

Standish

Wigan

Lancashire

WN6 0XQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-27

Last: 2026-03-13

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

STRANGE, Stephen James→

secretary · appointed 1998-03-13

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Active

MILLAR, Jason Nicholas→

director · ~60y · appointed 1998-03-13

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Active

STRANGE, Stephen James→

director · ~55y · appointed 1998-03-13

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Active

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-03-13 · resigned 1998-03-13

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	31/03/2006	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	30/03/2006	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	13/05/2005	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Debenture	1 property	22/09/1998	—

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