AVON FOREST AUTOS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05618418 · ltd · incorporated 2005-11-10

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

£3.10M

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 45190

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

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Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

8 officers (6 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

12 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

78 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,101,272

Cash YoY

+85%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.5m

↑ 85% YoY

Net Worth

£3.1m

↑ 12% YoY

Current Assets

£3.2m

↑ 4.5% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£3.10M	£2.78M
Current assets	£3.20M	£3.06M
Cash	£1.49M	£802.6k
Debtors	£203.9k	£562.5k
Net assets	£3.10M	£2.78M

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

filings

• 6 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filings

• 6 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 7 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

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SMITH, Andrew David appointed
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SMITH, Matthew Luke appointed
director
2012-11-14
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SMITH, Michelle Elizabeth appointed
director
2005-11-10
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Company incorporated
As AVON FOREST AUTOS LIMITED
2005-11-10
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SMITH, Eileen Patricia appointed
secretary
2005-11-10
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SMITH, David Richard appointed
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SMITH, Eileen Patricia appointed
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SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED appointed
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CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED appointed
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CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED resigned
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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Eileen Patricia Smith Individual · British · DOB 08/1945 · age 81	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	01/07/2025
Mr David Richard Smith Individual · British · DOB 05/1943 · age 83	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	01/07/2025

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

Incorporated2005-11-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC45190 — SIC 45190

Registered office

Endeavour House

Crow Arch Lane

Ringwood

Hampshire

BH24 1HP

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-07-26

Last: 2026-07-12