AUTO ACTION DEVELOPMENTS LTD

🌳Matureactive
09698642 · ltd · incorporated 2015-07-22
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 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
29 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 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-12-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  4. 2024-12-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2024-12-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2024-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-02-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2024-02-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2023-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-11-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-01-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-08-15
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  16. 2017-08-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  17. 2015-07-22
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    Company incorporated
    As AUTO ACTION DEVELOPMENTS LTD
  18. 2015-07-22
    ➕
    CORBOULD, Christopher appointed
    director
  19. 2015-07-22
    ➕
    LAYTON, Neil Dennis 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 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100
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.
  • 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Direct 2 Action Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Auto Action Fx Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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AUTO ACTION DEVELOPMENTS LTD
This company · 09698642

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Direct 2 Action Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Auto Action Fx Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 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
Incorporated2015-07-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

2 Somerville Court
Banbury Business Park
Adderbury
Oxfordshire
OX17 3SN
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-04
Last: 2025-07-21

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

CORBOULD, Christopher→
director · ~68y · appointed 2015-07-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAYTON, Neil Dennis→
director · ~54y · appointed 2015-07-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Recent filings (29 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-12-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-12-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-07
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-27