BEARINGBOYS LTD
🌳Matureactive
05900054 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-08
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 17.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.5y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 17.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
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
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
68 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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 3900 | 3800 |
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
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-10-16📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-10-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-10-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-10-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-05-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-05📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-11-05🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2021-05-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-02📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2020-06-01🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2018-12-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2009-01-16🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited
- 2008-06-01➕HUETSON, Melvin Andrew appointeddirector
- 2006-12-05➖TAYLOR, Holly Marie resignedsecretary
- 2006-11-22➕HUETSON, Samuel Donald appointeddirector
- 2006-08-08🏢Company incorporatedAs BEARINGBOYS LTD
- 2006-08-08➕HUETSON, William Stanley appointeddirector
- 2006-08-08➕TAYLOR, Holly Marie appointedsecretary
Owner dependency
83/100
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
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 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
83/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
- 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
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 |
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Mr William Stanley Huetson Individual · British · DOB 03/1982 · age 44 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 01/08/2016 |
Mr Samuel Donald Huetson Individual · British · DOB 07/1984 · age 42 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 01/08/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒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.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-08-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46690 — Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
Registered office
Unit 8 Mission Road
Rackheath Industrial Estate, Rackheath
Norwich
NR13 6PL
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-06
Last: 2026-03-23
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
HUETSON, Melvin Andrew→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2008-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
HUETSON, Samuel Donald→
Activedirector · ~42y · appointed 2006-11-22
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HUETSON, William Stanley→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2006-08-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TAYLOR, Holly Marie→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2006-08-08 · resigned 2006-12-05
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 05/11/2021 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 01/06/2020 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited | All assets debenture | 1 property | 16/01/2009 | — |
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Recent filings (68 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-10-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-03-09