JOHN MILLER AND SONS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05370248 · ltd · incorporated 2005-02-21
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 21.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38320
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
4 live charges · oldest 21.1y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 21.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 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
63 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
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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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-20📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-12-18📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-12-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-12-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-09-30📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-11-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-03-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-02-21📄change-person-director-companyofficers · CH01
- 2020-02-21📄change-person-director-companyofficers · CH01
- 2020-02-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-11-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2018-03-01🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2017-12-27🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2017-10-10🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2014-03-22🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2005-05-31🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2005-03-04➕MILLER, David appointedsecretary
- 2005-03-04➖MILLER, John resignedsecretary
- 2005-02-21🏢Company incorporatedAs JOHN MILLER AND SONS LIMITED
- 2005-02-21➕MILLER, David appointeddirector
- 2005-02-21➕MILLER SNR, John appointeddirector
- 2005-02-21➕MILLER, John appointedsecretary
Owner dependency
98/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 "MILLER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
96/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 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 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
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 David Miller Individual · British · DOB 07/1959 · age 67 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mr John Miller Snr Individual · British · DOB 05/1954 · age 72 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
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
8 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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-02-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320
Registered office
Canal Head Yard
Canal Street
Ulverston
Cumbria
LA12 7JZ
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-27
Last: 2026-02-13
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
Active
MILLER, David→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2005-02-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MILLER SNR, John→
Activedirector · ~72y · appointed 2005-02-21
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MILLER, John→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2005-02-21 · resigned 2005-03-04
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Mortgages & charges
4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 01/03/2018 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 27/12/2017 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 10/10/2017 | — | |
| satisfied | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 31/05/2005 | 22/03/2014 |
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Recent filings (63 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-20
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-10
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28