BODY SMART REPAIRS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05850716 · ltd · incorporated 2006-06-19
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
54 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
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees200200

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-09-01
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  5. 2022-08-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-09-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-09-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-11-17
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2017-11-16
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2017-10-31
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    MORRALL, Alison appointed
    director
  14. 2017-07-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  15. 2017-07-21
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  16. 2016-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2006-06-19
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    Company incorporated
    As BODY SMART REPAIRS LIMITED
  18. 2006-06-19
    ➕
    MORRALL, Alison appointed
    secretary
  19. 2006-06-19
    ➕
    MORRALL, Stephen Thomas appointed
    director
  20. 2006-06-19
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    SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2006-06-19
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    SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2006-06-19
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    SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2006-06-19
    ➖
    SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — 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 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Stephen Thomas Morrall
Individual · British · DOB 07/1966 · age 60
50–75%
—50-75% 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
Incorporated2006-06-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

6 Willow Grove
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
AL8 7NA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-03
Last: 2026-06-19

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MORRALL, Alison→
secretary · appointed 2006-06-19
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Active
MORRALL, Alison→
director · ~57y · appointed 2017-10-31
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Active
MORRALL, Stephen Thomas→
director · ~60y · appointed 2006-06-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-06-19 · resigned 2006-06-19
Resigned
SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-06-19 · resigned 2006-06-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-04