BOLDGATE COMMERCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05992448 · ltd · incorporated 2006-11-08
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 19.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2023
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 33190
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (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).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 19.6y
70/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 19.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (72/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
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
60 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
1 year 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 | 2023-11-29 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 1700 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 capital
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 capital
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-14📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2026-05-14📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-11-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-11-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-11-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-11-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-11-17📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2022-08-31📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2021-08-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-30📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2020-06-26🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
- 2019-08-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2009-05-01🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2006-12-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Rdm Factors Limited
- 2006-11-08🏢Company incorporatedAs BOLDGATE COMMERCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
- 2006-11-08➕HOWSE, Suzanne Jane appointedsecretary
- 2006-11-08➕HOWSE, Suzanne Jane appointeddirector
- 2006-11-08➕SODEN, Catherine Louise appointeddirector
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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.
Succession & seller-readiness
69/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
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.
- 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
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Miss Suzanne Jane Howse Individual · British · DOB 06/1973 · age 53 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Miss Catherine Louise Sodenceased 11/05/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-11-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC33190 — SIC 33190
Registered office
Unit 12 Brook Business Centre, Cowley Mill Road
Cowley
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 2FX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-29
Last made up to: 2024-11-29
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-22
Last: 2025-11-08
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
HOWSE, Suzanne Jane→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-11-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
HOWSE, Suzanne Jane→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2006-11-08
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SODEN, Catherine Louise→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2006-11-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc UK Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 26/06/2020 | — | |
| satisfied | Rdm Factors Rdm Factors Limited | All asset debenture | 1 property | 18/12/2006 | 01/05/2009 |
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Recent filings (60 total)
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-05-14
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-11-17
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2022-11-17