AMIC HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04283969 · ltd · incorporated 2001-09-07

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 15.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

£1.44M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Freight transport by road

Sector: Transportation & storage

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · oldest 15.3y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 15.3 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: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

76 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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,437,254

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£1.4m

↑ 19% YoY

Current Assets

£804k

↑ 13% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-09-29	2024-09-29
Total assets	£1.81M	£1.62M
Current assets	£803.7k	£710.5k
Net assets	£1.44M	£1.20M

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-06-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-09-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-14
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certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2025-04-11
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-06-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-07
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-09-07
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-26
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-06-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-12-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-09-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-11
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2019-11-11
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2019-10-07
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JOINSON, Fiona resigned
director
2019-10-07
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2016-11-02
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Charge registered #3
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2013-10-07
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JOINSON, Fiona appointed
director
2013-09-17
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SMITH, Daniel Ashley appointed
director
2013-09-17
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SMITH, Laura Ashley appointed
director
2013-02-05
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PALIN, Linda Suzanne resigned
secretary
2011-04-21
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2011-03-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2001-09-07
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Company incorporated
As AMIC HOLDINGS LIMITED
2001-09-07
➕
SMITH, Michael appointed
director
2001-09-07
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PALIN, Linda Suzanne appointed
secretary
2001-09-07
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ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-09-07
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ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-09-07
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AR NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2001-09-07
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AR 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

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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

1 med ·

Name changed recently

medium

Name changes can be benign (rebrand) but can also precede distress, phoenix activity, or buyer concealment.

Evidence: 2025-04-14: certificate-change-of-name-company

Group structure

Mdl Holdings Cheshire Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mdl Holdings Cheshire Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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AMIC HOLDINGS LIMITED

This company · 04283969

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
Mdl Holdings Cheshire 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.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2001-09-07

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Yew Tree Farm Clay Lane

Haslington

Crewe

Cheshire

CW1 5SQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-29

Last made up to: 2025-09-29

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-15

Last: 2025-09-01

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

SMITH, Daniel Ashley→

director · ~37y · appointed 2013-09-17

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SMITH, Laura Ashley→

director · ~38y · appointed 2013-09-17

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SMITH, Michael→

director · ~63y · appointed 2001-09-07

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

PALIN, Linda Suzanne→

secretary · appointed 2001-09-07 · resigned 2013-02-05

Resigned

ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-09-07 · resigned 2001-09-07

Resigned

JOINSON, Fiona→

director · ~56y · appointed 2013-10-07 · resigned 2019-10-07

Resigned

AR NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-09-07 · resigned 2001-09-07

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	A registered charge	1 property	02/11/2016	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Legal charge	1 property	21/04/2011	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Debenture	1 property	30/03/2011	—

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Recent filings (76 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-06-09

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-09-17

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-09-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-06-18

certificate-change-of-name-company

change-of-name · CERTNM

2025-04-14

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC05

2025-04-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-09-09

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

accounts · AA

2024-06-28

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

accounts · AA

2023-09-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-09-07

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-09-07

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2023-09-07

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2023-06-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-10-26

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

accounts · AA

2022-06-30