ALPHA CONTRACTS LEASING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03665973 · ltd · incorporated 1998-11-11
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
£349.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £349,149
Cash YoY
+74%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£210k
↑ 74% YoY
Net Worth
£349k
↑ 8.2% YoY
Current Assets
£281k
↑ 14% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£70k£140k£209k£279k£349kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£351.5k£324.6k
Current assets£281.2k£247.8k
Cash£209.6k£120.6k
Debtors£71.6k£127.1k
Net assets£349.1k£322.6k

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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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-13
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2024-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-05-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-05-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-06-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2021-05-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-06-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-05-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-05-01
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-05-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-11-11
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2016-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-10-15
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-04-24
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    accounts · AA
  16. 1998-11-11
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    Company incorporated
    As ALPHA CONTRACTS LEASING LIMITED
  17. 1998-11-11
    ➕
    RANDALL, Lynette appointed
    secretary
  18. 1998-11-11
    ➕
    MILES, Samantha appointed
    director
  19. 1998-11-11
    ➕
    RANDALL, Lynette appointed
    director
  20. 1998-11-11
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1998-11-11
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1998-11-11
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1998-11-11
    ➖
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

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 62 — 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 62. 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Lynette Randall
Individual · British · DOB 09/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares10/10/2016
Ms Samantha Miles
Individual · British · DOB 09/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares10/10/2016

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
Incorporated1998-11-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45111 — Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles

Registered office

Bricklefield Horton Road
Hackleton
Northampton
NN7 2AW
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-24
Last: 2025-10-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

RANDALL, Lynette→
secretary · appointed 1998-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MILES, Samantha→
director · ~58y · appointed 1998-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RANDALL, Lynette→
director · ~62y · appointed 1998-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-11-11 · resigned 1998-11-11
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-11-11 · resigned 1998-11-11
Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-02-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-06-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-21