AUTOPUMPS UK LTD
🌳Matureactive
06229026 · ltd · incorporated 2007-04-27
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 8.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£1.92M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). 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 8.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 8.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (80/100)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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £1,916,873
Cash YoY
+20%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£794k
↑ 20% YoY
Net Worth
£1.9m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£2.2m
↑ 1.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.92M | £1.92M |
| Current assets | £2.21M | £2.17M |
| Cash | £793.9k | £659.6k |
| Debtors | £705.5k | £1.02M |
| Net assets | £1.92M | £1.91M |
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 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 3 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-mediumaccounts · AA
- 2025-12-23📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-12-23📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-12-23📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2025-03-31📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-03-31📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-03-28📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-03-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-03-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-03-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-01-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-01📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-06-20📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2024-06-18🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2023-10-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-01-11📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2022-01-10🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2021-09-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-02-12🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2019-02-11🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2018-01-23🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2017-12-22🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2016-05-01➕COTTON, Brett Lee appointeddirector
- 2007-04-27🏢Company incorporatedAs AUTOPUMPS UK LTD
- 2007-04-27➕COTTON, Dudley Granville appointedsecretary
- 2007-04-27➕COTTON, Dudley Granville appointeddirector
- 2007-04-27➕COTTON, Jennifer Ann appointeddirector
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — 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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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.)
Group structure
Auto Motive Pumps Holding Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Auto Motive Pumps Holding Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
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AUTOPUMPS UK LTD
This company · 06229026
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Auto Motive Pumps Holding Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 04/09/2016 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mr Dudley Granville Cottonceased 04/09/2016· 25-50% shares
- Mrs Jennifer Ann Cottonceased 04/09/2016· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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7 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
Incorporated2007-04-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46190 — Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods
Registered office
Bramley Road Mount Farm
Bletchley
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK1 1PT
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-16
Last: 2026-04-02
Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
COTTON, Dudley Granville→
Activesecretary · appointed 2007-04-27
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COTTON, Brett Lee→
Activedirector · ~43y · appointed 2016-05-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
COTTON, Dudley Granville→
Activedirector · ~82y · appointed 2007-04-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
COTTON, Jennifer Ann→
Activedirector · ~78y · appointed 2007-04-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Mortgages & charges
4
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 18/06/2024 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 10/01/2022 | — | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 23/01/2018 | 12/02/2019 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 22/12/2017 | 11/02/2019 |
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Recent filings (63 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2026-01-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-12-23
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-12-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-08
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-31
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-03-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-01-16
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-10-01
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-06-20