EUROPEAN AUTO RECYCLERS LTD

🌳Matureactive

03690758 · ltd · incorporated 1998-12-31

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 12.7y 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: SIC 45200

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

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

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 12.7y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 12.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

73 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

—

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	—	£2.15M
Current assets	—	£1.16M
Net assets	—	£2.15M
Average employees	0	—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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accounts · AA
2025-04-30
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accounts · AA
2024-07-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-07-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-04-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-02-13
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2019-02-13
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2018-08-06
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address · AD01
2018-05-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-05-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-05-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-01-14
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annual-return · AR01
2013-09-18
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2013-09-17
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2004-07-13
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MILLAR, James Clough resigned
director
2002-11-01
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MILLAR, Jason Nicholas appointed
director
2001-08-20
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MILLAR, Jason Nicholas resigned
director
1998-12-31
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Company incorporated
As EUROPEAN AUTO RECYCLERS LTD
1998-12-31
➕
STRANGE, Stephen James appointed
secretary
1998-12-31
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STRANGE, Stephen James appointed
director
1998-12-31
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1998-12-31
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1998-12-31
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MILLAR, James Clough appointed
director
1998-12-31
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MILLAR, Jason Nicholas appointed
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 27 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 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Stephanie Francis Millar Individual · British · DOB 09/1971 · age 55	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/01/2018
Mrs Julie Strange Individual · British · DOB 08/1971 · age 55	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/01/2018
Mr Jason Nicholas Millar Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Stephen James Strange Individual · British · DOB 01/1971 · age 55	25–50%	—	25-50% 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

Incorporated1998-12-31

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

7 Bolton Road

Ashton-In-Makerfield

Wigan

WN4 8AA

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-14

Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

STRANGE, Stephen James→

secretary · appointed 1998-12-31

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Active

MILLAR, Jason Nicholas→

director · ~60y · appointed 2002-11-01

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Active

STRANGE, Stephen James→

director · ~55y · appointed 1998-12-31

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Active

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-12-31 · resigned 1998-12-31

Resigned

MILLAR, James Clough→

director · ~90y · appointed 1998-12-31 · resigned 2004-07-13

Resigned

MILLAR, Jason Nicholas→

director · ~60y · appointed 1998-12-31 · resigned 2001-08-20

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	18/09/2013	—
	outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	17/09/2013	—

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Recent filings (73 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-04-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-05