BODYTEK (TAUNTON) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05147198 · ltd · incorporated 2004-06-07
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 22.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£66.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 22.0y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
58 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £66,461
Net assets shrinking
Down £6,633 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£66k
↓ 9.1% YoY
Current Assets
£102k
↓ 13% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£24k£47k£71k£94k£118kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£70.0k£77.6k
Current assets£102.2k£118.1k
Net assets£66.5k£73.1k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-09
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  2. 2026-05-31
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    HEATON, Brian James resigned
    secretary
  3. 2026-02-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-02-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-02-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-06-15
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  10. 2020-06-02
    ➕
    HEATON, Tara Leigh appointed
    director
  11. 2019-11-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-11-29
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-14
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2016-02-17
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-06-24
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2007-02-09
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Crown Estate Commissioners
  19. 2007-02-09
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Crown Estate Commissioners
  20. 2004-07-02
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Crown Estate Commissioners
  21. 2004-06-07
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    Company incorporated
    As BODYTEK (TAUNTON) LIMITED
  22. 2004-06-07
    ➕
    HEATON, Richard Brian appointed
    director
  23. 2004-06-07
    ➕
    HEATON, Brian James appointed
    secretary
  24. 2004-06-07
    ➕
    WHBC NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2004-06-07
    ➖
    WHBC NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2004-06-07
    ➕
    WHBC NOMINEE DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  27. 2004-06-07
    ➖
    WHBC NOMINEE DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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 Richard Brian Heaton
Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Tara Leigh Heaton
Individual · English · DOB 05/1969 · age 57
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
Incorporated2004-06-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

3 Southwell
Staplehay Trull
Taunton
Somerset
TA3 7HU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-21
Last: 2026-06-07

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

HEATON, Richard Brian→
director · ~61y · appointed 2004-06-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEATON, Tara Leigh→
director · ~57y · appointed 2020-06-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEATON, Brian James→
secretary · appointed 2004-06-07 · resigned 2026-05-31
Resigned
WHBC NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-06-07 · resigned 2004-06-07
Resigned
WHBC NOMINEE DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2004-06-07 · resigned 2004-06-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
The Crown Estate Commissioners
Rent deposit deed1 property09/02/2007—
outstanding
Crown Estate Commissioners
Rent deposit deed1 property09/02/2007—
outstanding
The Crown Estate Commissioners
Rent deposit deed2 properties02/07/2004—
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Recent filings (58 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-09
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2026-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-02-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-02-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-16
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-06-15