ANDOVER TYRE AND AUTO SERVICES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06920933 · ltd · incorporated 2009-06-02
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 16.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to May 2025
Net worth
£155.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). 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 (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 16.0y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 16.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
55 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £155,495
Cash YoY
-13%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£171k
↓ 13% YoY
Net Worth
£155k
↑ 46% YoY
Current Assets
£376k
↓ 7.2% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-05-31 | 2024-05-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £232.9k | £175.2k |
| Current assets | £376.0k | £405.3k |
| Cash | £171.2k | £197.6k |
| Debtors | £192.2k | £200.2k |
| Net assets | £155.5k | £106.2k |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-10-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-10-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-19📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-02-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-19📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2019-12-19📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2019-12-02📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2019-12-02📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2019-11-19➖BALCH, Ashley Laurence resigneddirector
- 2019-02-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2017-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-01-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-07-14📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2010-06-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Alstom Pension Trust Limited
- 2009-07-01➖HOLMAN, Stewart Martin resigneddirector
- 2009-06-05➕BALCH, Neville Alan appointeddirector
- 2009-06-05➕WEEKS, Mark Alan appointeddirector
- 2009-06-05➕BALCH, Ashley Laurence appointeddirector
- 2009-06-05➕HOLMAN, Stewart Martin appointeddirector
- 2009-06-02🏢Company incorporatedAs ANDOVER TYRE AND AUTO SERVICES LIMITED
- 2009-06-02➕STEPHENS, Graham Robertson appointeddirector
- 2009-06-02➖STEPHENS, Graham Robertson resigneddirector
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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — 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 61. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Mark Alan Weeks Individual · British · DOB 05/1970 · age 56 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Neville Alan Balch Individual · British · DOB 03/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr Ashley Balchceased 19/11/2019· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-06-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200
Registered office
Unit 1 Crown Way
Walworth Business Park
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 5LU
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-16
Last: 2025-06-02
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
BALCH, Neville Alan→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2009-06-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WEEKS, Mark Alan→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2009-06-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BALCH, Ashley Laurence→
Resigneddirector · ~64y · appointed 2009-06-05 · resigned 2019-11-19
HOLMAN, Stewart Martin→
Resigneddirector · ~63y · appointed 2009-06-05 · resigned 2009-07-01
STEPHENS, Graham Robertson→
Resigneddirector · ~76y · appointed 2009-06-02 · resigned 2009-06-02
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Alstom Pension Trust Alstom Pension Trust Limited | Rent deposit deed | 1 property | 18/06/2010 | — |
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Recent filings (55 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-02-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-12-19