ASBESTOS TRANSFER SERVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive
08837457 · ltd · incorporated 2014-01-08
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38220
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
35 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2023Jul 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-07-312023-07-31
Average employees300300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2026-02-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2026-02-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-06-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2024-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-02-16
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  9. 2022-04-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-04-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-04-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-01-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  15. 2018-01-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  16. 2017-04-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2014-01-09
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    CLAXTON, Mark Henry appointed
    director
  18. 2014-01-08
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    Company incorporated
    As ASBESTOS TRANSFER SERVICES LTD
  19. 2014-01-08
    ➕
    BENNETT, Karen Ann appointed
    director

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 12 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Karen Ann Bennett
Individual · British · DOB 11/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Mark Henry Claxton
Individual · British · DOB 12/1958 · age 68
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Miss Karen Ann Bennett
Individual · British · DOB 11/1960 · age 66
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Mark Henry Claxton
Individual · British · DOB 12/1958 · age 68
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2014-01-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38220 — SIC 38220

Registered office

19th Floor 1 Westfield Avenue
London
E20 1HZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-22
Last: 2026-01-08

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

BENNETT, Karen Ann→
director · ~66y · appointed 2014-01-08
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Active
CLAXTON, Mark Henry→
director · ~68y · appointed 2014-01-09
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Active

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Recent filings (35 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-14
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-02-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-28