BLACKTRACK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05246453 · ltd · incorporated 2004-09-30
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26400
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 26511SIC 26511
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
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
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
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filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-23
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  2. 2024-09-18
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  3. 2023-12-08
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  4. 2022-09-30
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  5. 2021-12-21
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  6. 2020-12-23
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  7. 2019-09-24
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  8. 2018-07-18
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  9. 2017-07-20
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  10. 2016-06-07
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  11. 2015-10-15
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  12. 2015-09-07
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  13. 2015-09-07
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  14. 2014-11-01
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    ARMSTRONG, Catherine Mary appointed
    director
  15. 2014-08-04
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    HILL, Ian Crawford resigned
    director
  16. 2004-09-30
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    Company incorporated
    As BLACKTRACK LIMITED
  17. 2004-09-30
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    ARMSTRONG, Ian Philip appointed
    secretary
  18. 2004-09-30
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    ARMSTRONG, Ian Philip appointed
    director
  19. 2004-09-30
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    HILL, Ian Crawford 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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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 Ian Philip Armstrong
Individual · British · DOB 10/1955 · age 71
50–75%
—50-75% shares07/09/2016
Mrs Catherine Mary Armstrong
Individual · Irish · DOB 05/1957 · age 69
25–50%
—25-50% shares07/09/2016

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
Incorporated2004-09-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC26400 — SIC 26400

Registered office

3 Dresser Close
Richmond
N Yorkshire
DL10 4UD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-13
Last: 2026-06-29

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ARMSTRONG, Ian Philip→
secretary · appointed 2004-09-30
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ARMSTRONG, Catherine Mary→
director · ~69y · appointed 2014-11-01
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ARMSTRONG, Ian Philip→
director · ~71y · appointed 2004-09-30
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Active
HILL, Ian Crawford→
director · ~89y · appointed 2004-09-30 · resigned 2014-08-04
Resigned

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Recent filings (52 total)

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2026-07-13
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2025-08-23
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2025-06-29
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2025-06-06
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2024-09-18
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2024-06-21
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2023-12-08
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2023-05-16
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2022-09-30
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2022-06-20
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2021-12-21
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2021-06-02
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2020-12-23
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2020-05-11
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2019-09-24