COOMBS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09677368 · ltd · incorporated 2015-07-08
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 Dec 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 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
25 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
34 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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees3300

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-07-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-29
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-03-29
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2023-03-29
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2022-04-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-06-15
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2021-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-02-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2020-02-26
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2020-01-02
    ➕
    BERNEY, Nigel Philip appointed
    director
  14. 2019-10-31
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    capital-alter-shares-subdivision
    capital · SH02
  15. 2019-10-11
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2019-10-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-09-30
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2019-09-30
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  19. 2019-09-30
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  20. 2016-06-14
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    STEVENS, Peter resigned
    director
  21. 2015-07-08
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    Company incorporated
    As COOMBS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
  22. 2015-07-08
    ➕
    HARMAN, Guy Alistair appointed
    director
  23. 2015-07-08
    ➕
    THURGOOD, Julius Dixson appointed
    director
  24. 2015-07-08
    ➕
    STEVENS, Peter appointed
    director

Owner dependency

65/100
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 74 — succession pressure is live.

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 74 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Nigel Philip Berney
Individual · British · DOB 09/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting02/01/2020
Mr Guy Alistair Harman
Individual · British · DOB 08/1970 · age 56
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Julius Dixson Thurgood
Individual · British · DOB 06/1952 · age 74
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
Incorporated2015-07-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

C/O Dickinsons, Brandon House
First Floor, 90 The Broadway
Chesham
HP5 1EG
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-21
Last: 2025-07-07

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

BERNEY, Nigel Philip→
director · ~59y · appointed 2020-01-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARMAN, Guy Alistair→
director · ~56y · appointed 2015-07-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
THURGOOD, Julius Dixson→
director · ~74y · appointed 2015-07-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STEVENS, Peter→
director · ~83y · appointed 2015-07-08 · resigned 2016-06-14
Resigned

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Recent filings (34 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-20
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2021-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-28