CHAPMAN AND MARRIOTT TREE SPECIALISTS LTD

🌳Matureactive
04659938 · ltd · incorporated 2003-02-10
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 11.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Feb 2025
Net worth
£21.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 02100
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 11.2y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
57 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 £21,663
Cash YoY
+13424%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£10k
↑ 13424% YoY
Net Worth
£22k
↑ 45% YoY
Current Assets
£93k
↑ 72% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£19k£37k£56k£74k£93kFeb 2024Feb 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-02-282024-02-29
Total assets£51.8k£96.4k
Current assets£92.7k£53.8k
Cash£10.0k£74
Debtors£81.8k£52.6k
Net assets£21.7k£14.9k

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
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-08
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2025-10-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-11-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-04-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2019-10-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-02-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2019-02-22
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  12. 2018-11-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-03-25
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-05-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  17. 2003-02-10
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CHAPMAN AND MARRIOTT TREE SPECIALISTS LTD
  18. 2003-02-10
    ➕
    CHAPMAN, Simon Julian appointed
    secretary
  19. 2003-02-10
    ➕
    CHAPMAN, Simon Julian appointed
    director
  20. 2003-02-10
    ➕
    MARRIOTT, Ian appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 "CHAPMAN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — 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 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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
Mr Simon Julian Chapman
Individual · British · DOB 07/1973 · age 53
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Ian Marriott
Individual · British · DOB 02/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2003-02-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC02100 — SIC 02100

Registered office

2a Wilson Street
Pinxton
Nottingham
NG16 6LS
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-21
Last: 2025-11-07

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

CHAPMAN, Simon Julian→
secretary · appointed 2003-02-10
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Active
CHAPMAN, Simon Julian→
director · ~53y · appointed 2003-02-10
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Active
MARRIOTT, Ian→
director · ~61y · appointed 2003-02-10
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Active

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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
A registered charge—13/05/2015—
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Recent filings (57 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-04-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-23