ARCHER HAULAGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03851097 · ltd · incorporated 1999-09-30
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 26.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£258.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 26.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.6 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: 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
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
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
66 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £258,323
Cash YoY
+75%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£185k
↑ 75% YoY
Net Worth
£258k
↑ 13% YoY
Current Assets
£221k
↓ 9.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£52k£103k£155k£207k£258kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£258.3k£227.6k
Current assets£220.8k£243.5k
Cash£184.9k£105.4k
Debtors£36.0k£138.1k
Net assets£258.3k£227.6k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-20
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  3. 2024-07-13
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  4. 2023-06-19
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  5. 2022-11-29
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    address · AD01
  6. 2022-11-29
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    address · AD01
  7. 2022-03-17
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-03-23
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  9. 2020-03-09
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  10. 2019-05-30
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-18
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-12-12
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-12-18
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  14. 2015-10-21
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-11-26
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    accounts · AA
  16. 1999-12-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  17. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    ARCHER, John appointed
    secretary
  18. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    ARCHER, Carol appointed
    director
  19. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    ARCHER, John appointed
    director
  20. 1999-10-18
    ➖
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1999-10-18
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    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 1999-09-30
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    Company incorporated
    As ARCHER HAULAGE LIMITED
  23. 1999-09-30
    ➕
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1999-09-30
    ➕
    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ARCHER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr John Archer
Individual · British · DOB 12/1956 · age 70
75–100%
—75-100% shares10/09/2016

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
Incorporated1999-09-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Spring Brook 254 Denby Lane
Grange Moor
Wakefield
WF4 4BJ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-14
Last: 2025-09-30

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

ARCHER, John→
secretary · appointed 1999-10-18
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Active
ARCHER, Carol→
director · ~67y · appointed 1999-10-18
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Active
ARCHER, John→
director · ~70y · appointed 1999-10-18
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Active
YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-09-30 · resigned 1999-10-18
Resigned
YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-09-30 · resigned 1999-10-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property30/12/1999—
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Recent filings (66 total)

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2026-06-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-04
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accounts · AA
2025-05-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-19
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-11-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-09