ABLE REMOVALS LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
05353874 · ltd · incorporated 2005-02-05
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£61.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Removal services
Sector: Transportation & storage
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 52219SIC 52219
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -80% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
14 officers (2 active, 14 linked, 6 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
74 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £61,369
Net assets shrinking
Down £19,895 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 80% YoY
Cash YoY
-80%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£8k
↓ 80% YoY
Net Worth
£61k
↓ 24% YoY
Current Assets
£113k
↓ 12% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£26k£51k£77k£103k£129kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£141.0k£100.7k
Current assets£112.9k£128.7k
Cash£8.4k£42.9k
Debtors£103.0k£84.5k
Net assets£61.4k£81.3k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-02-28
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  3. 2024-02-28
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  4. 2023-05-30
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  5. 2022-05-27
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  6. 2021-05-24
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  7. 2020-02-27
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  8. 2019-09-04
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  9. 2019-09-04
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  10. 2019-09-04
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  11. 2019-08-13
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    EVERS, Deborah Ann resigned
    director
  12. 2019-02-28
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  13. 2018-02-28
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  14. 2017-04-26
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  15. 2017-04-25
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  17. 2011-03-22
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    ANTONIADES, Allyson Cathryn resigned
    director
  18. 2011-03-22
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    ANTONIADES, Paul resigned
    director
  19. 2011-03-22
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    BARR, David George resigned
    director
  20. 2011-03-22
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    BARR, Teresa resigned
    director
  21. 2010-03-26
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    ANTONIADES, Paul resigned
    secretary
  22. 2010-03-26
    ➖
    BARR, David George resigned
    secretary
  23. 2010-03-26
    ➖
    BARR, Teresa resigned
    secretary
  24. 2010-03-26
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    CAUSER, Allyson resigned
    secretary
  25. 2010-03-26
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    EVERS, Deborah Ann resigned
    secretary
  26. 2005-02-14
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    BARR, Teresa appointed
    secretary
  27. 2005-02-14
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    CAUSER, Allyson appointed
    secretary
  28. 2005-02-14
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    EVERS, Deborah Ann appointed
    secretary
  29. 2005-02-14
    ➕
    ANTONIADES, Allyson Cathryn appointed
    director
  30. 2005-02-14
    ➕
    BARR, Teresa appointed
    director
  31. 2005-02-14
    ➕
    EVERS, Deborah Ann appointed
    director
  32. 2005-02-05
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    Company incorporated
    As ABLE REMOVALS LIMITED
  33. 2005-02-05
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    EVERS, Michael Alan appointed
    secretary
  34. 2005-02-05
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    EVERS, Michael Alan appointed
    director
  35. 2005-02-05
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    ANTONIADES, Paul appointed
    secretary
  36. 2005-02-05
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    BARR, David George appointed
    secretary
  37. 2005-02-05
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  38. 2005-02-05
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  39. 2005-02-05
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    ANTONIADES, Paul appointed
    director
  40. 2005-02-05
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    BARR, David George appointed
    director
  41. 2005-02-05
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  42. 2005-02-05
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Michael Alan Evers
Individual · British · DOB 09/1959 · age 67
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Deborah Ann Eversceased 05/03/2019· 25-50% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 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
Incorporated2005-02-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49420 — Removal services

Registered office

Abacus House
68a North Street
Romford
RM1 1DA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-18
Last: 2025-09-04

Officers (2 active · 12 resigned)

EVERS, Michael Alan→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
EVERS, Michael Alan→
director · ~67y · appointed 2005-02-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ANTONIADES, Paul→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2010-03-26
Resigned
BARR, David George→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2010-03-26
Resigned
BARR, Teresa→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2010-03-26
Resigned
CAUSER, Allyson→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2010-03-26
Resigned
EVERS, Deborah Ann→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2010-03-26
Resigned
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2005-02-05
Resigned
ANTONIADES, Allyson Cathryn→
director · ~61y · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2011-03-22
Resigned
ANTONIADES, Paul→
director · ~61y · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2011-03-22
Resigned
BARR, David George→
director · ~72y · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2011-03-22
Resigned
BARR, Teresa→
director · ~67y · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2011-03-22
Resigned
EVERS, Deborah Ann→
director · ~69y · appointed 2005-02-14 · resigned 2019-08-13
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-02-05 · resigned 2005-02-05
Resigned

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Recent filings (74 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-04
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officers · TM01
2019-09-04