ATLAS SELF STORAGE & REMOVALS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
08163534 · ltd · incorporated 2012-08-01
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 6.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Removal services
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 6.5y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 6.5 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
45 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
75
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 accounts
Cash
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees400400

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-07-02
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  3. 2023-08-08
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  4. 2022-08-18
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  5. 2021-07-28
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  6. 2021-01-13
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  7. 2020-08-17
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2020-08-13
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    address · AD01
  9. 2020-08-13
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  10. 2020-08-13
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  11. 2020-08-13
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  12. 2020-08-13
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  13. 2020-05-26
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2020-05-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2020-05-26
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  16. 2020-05-26
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  17. 2020-05-26
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
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  18. 2019-12-17
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  19. 2019-12-05
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    mortgage · MR01
  20. 2019-12-02
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  21. 2012-08-01
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    Company incorporated
    As ATLAS SELF STORAGE & REMOVALS LIMITED
  22. 2012-08-01
    ➕
    HEFFERNAN, Bernard James appointed
    director
  23. 2012-08-01
    ➕
    HEFFERNAN, Denise Alexandra appointed
    director
  24. 2012-08-01
    ➕
    HEFFERNAN, Mark Reggie appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Bernard James Heffernan
Individual · British · DOB 08/1947 · age 79
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Denise Alexandra Heffernan
Individual · British · DOB 04/1956 · age 70
25–50%
—25-50% 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
Incorporated2012-08-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49420 — Removal services

Registered office

Channon Road
Moorlands Trading Estate
Saltash
Devon
PL12 6NZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-12
Last: 2025-07-29

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

HEFFERNAN, Bernard James→
director · ~79y · appointed 2012-08-01
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Active
HEFFERNAN, Denise Alexandra→
director · ~70y · appointed 2012-08-01
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Active
HEFFERNAN, Mark Reggie→
director · ~58y · appointed 2012-08-01
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge—02/12/2019—
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Recent filings (45 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-10-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-01-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-08-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-14
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-08-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-08-13