ASHTON MOTOR CARE LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04760219 · ltd · incorporated 2003-05-12
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 May 2025
Net worth
£241.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 78/100 (strong), 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: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -30% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 4.0y
35/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Charge age ~4.0 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.
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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
67 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
65
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £241,313
Cash YoY
-30%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£28k
↓ 30% YoY
Net Worth
£241k
↑ 11% YoY
Current Assets
£39k
↓ 8.7% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-05-31 | 2024-05-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £485.2k | £491.4k |
| Current assets | £39.3k | £43.0k |
| Cash | £28.1k | £40.3k |
| Debtors | £10.9k | £2.3k |
| Net assets | £241.3k | £217.9k |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-05📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-01-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-14📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-05-14📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-05📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2022-04-29🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Allica Bank Limited
- 2022-01-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-07-09📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-07-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-05-06➖TALBOT, Christopher resignedsecretary
- 2021-05-06📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2021-02-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2003-05-12🏢Company incorporatedAs ASHTON MOTOR CARE LIMITED
- 2003-05-12➕GILL, Matthew Philip appointeddirector
- 2003-05-12➕TALBOT, Christopher appointeddirector
- 2003-05-12➕TALBOT, Christopher appointedsecretary
- 2003-05-12➕SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2003-05-12➖SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
68/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Christopher Talbot Individual · British · DOB 04/1979 · age 47 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 12/05/2017 |
Mr Matthew Philip Gill Individual · British · DOB 02/1979 · age 47 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 12/05/2017 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-05-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200
Registered office
23-25 Bedminster Down Road
Bedminster
Bristol
Avon
BS13 7AB
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last: 2026-04-16
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
GILL, Matthew Philip→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2003-05-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TALBOT, Christopher→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2003-05-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TALBOT, Christopher→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2003-05-12 · resigned 2021-05-06
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-05-12 · resigned 2003-05-12
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Allica Bank Allica Bank Limited | A registered charge | 2 properties | 29/04/2022 | — |
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Recent filings (67 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-05-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-05-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-12
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-03