SHOBY INVESTMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09500594 · ltd · incorporated 2015-03-20
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 Jun 2025
Net worth
£1.37M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of distribution holding companies
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). 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 (83/100)

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
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
36 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,365,532

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£4k
Net Worth
£1.4m
Current Assets
£1.4m
Current Liabilities
—
£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1m£1.4mJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£1.37M—
Current assets£1.38M—
Cash£4.2k—
Debtors£1.37M—
Net assets£1.37M—
Average employees—400

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-17
    ➕
    SHOBY HOLDINGS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  5. 2024-01-17
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    appoint-corporate-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP02
  6. 2023-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-04-07
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2020-04-02
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  11. 2020-04-02
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2020-03-31
    ➖
    TARRY, Alice Eleanor resigned
    director
  13. 2020-03-17
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-12-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  15. 2019-12-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  16. 2019-11-25
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2019-04-17
    ➕
    SHELTON, Lucy Georgina appointed
    director
  18. 2019-04-17
    ➕
    SHELTON, Sophie Eleanor appointed
    director
  19. 2019-04-17
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  20. 2019-04-17
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  21. 2019-04-03
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  22. 2019-04-03
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  23. 2019-01-09
    ➕
    SHELTON, Samuel George appointed
    director
  24. 2015-03-20
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SHOBY INVESTMENTS LIMITED
  25. 2015-03-20
    ➕
    SHELTON, David Edward appointed
    director
  26. 2015-03-20
    ➕
    TARRY, Alice Eleanor 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
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "LIMITED" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Shoby Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Shoby Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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SHOBY INVESTMENTS LIMITED
This company · 09500594

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Shoby Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control30/03/2020
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David Edward Sheltonceased 30/03/2020· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2015-03-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64204 — Activities of distribution holding companies

Registered office

Northgate House North Gate
New Basford
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG7 7BQ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-03
Last: 2026-03-20

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

SHELTON, David Edward→
director · ~73y · appointed 2015-03-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHELTON, Lucy Georgina→
director · ~34y · appointed 2019-04-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHELTON, Samuel George→
director · ~36y · appointed 2019-01-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHELTON, Sophie Eleanor→
director · ~27y · appointed 2019-04-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHOBY HOLDINGS LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2024-01-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TARRY, Alice Eleanor→
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-03-20 · resigned 2020-03-31
Resigned

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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 charge1 property13/12/2019—
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Recent filings (36 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-26
appoint-corporate-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP02
2024-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-29
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-04-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2020-04-02