BARTLETTS SOUTH WEST LTD

🌳Matureactive

04146792 · ltd · incorporated 2001-01-24

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

—

year to Feb 2025

Net worth

£5.1k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 45200

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (67/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

58 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £5,103

Cash YoY

+32%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£141k

↑ 32% YoY

Net Worth

£5k

↑ 33% YoY

Current Assets

£159k

↑ 27% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-02-28	2024-02-29
Total assets	£493.8k	£460.7k
Current assets	£158.9k	£125.3k
Cash	£140.9k	£106.9k
Debtors	£13.0k	£13.4k
Net assets	£5.1k	£3.8k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-09-22
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2024-04-25
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2023-08-18
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accounts · AA
2022-09-14
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accounts · AA
2021-10-06
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accounts · AA
2020-12-11
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accounts · AA
2019-10-30
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accounts · AA
2018-10-29
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accounts · AA
2017-07-20
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accounts · AA
2016-06-23
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accounts · AA
2016-01-26
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2015-08-26
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accounts · AA
2015-01-29
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2014-08-08
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accounts · AA
2014-01-27
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annual-return · AR01
2001-03-05
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BARTLETT, Ian Charles appointed
secretary
2001-03-05
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BARTLETT, Gary Brian appointed
director
2001-03-05
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BARTLETT, Ian Charles appointed
director
2001-01-24
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Company incorporated
As BARTLETTS SOUTH WEST LTD
2001-01-24
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M W DOUGLAS & COMPANY LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-01-24
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M W DOUGLAS & COMPANY LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-01-24
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DOUGLAS NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2001-01-24
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DOUGLAS NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
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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 "BARTLETT" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 66. 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 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2001-01-24

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

14a Albany Road

Weymouth

Dorset

DT4 9TH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-30

Last made up to: 2025-02-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-07

Last: 2026-01-24

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BARTLETT, Ian Charles→

secretary · appointed 2001-03-05

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Active

BARTLETT, Gary Brian→

director · ~66y · appointed 2001-03-05

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Active

BARTLETT, Ian Charles→

director · ~55y · appointed 2001-03-05

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Active

M W DOUGLAS & COMPANY LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-01-24 · resigned 2001-01-24

Resigned

DOUGLAS NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-01-24 · resigned 2001-01-24

Resigned

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