COLLETT & SONS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
10285579 · ltd · incorporated 2016-07-19
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other transportation support activities
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 1.3y

60/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Newest facility, 1.3 years old — likely still in initial term.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
7 officers (7 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
34 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
Profitable
Profit before tax £882,449

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£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
Profit before tax£882.4k£666.7k
Average employees00

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-04
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  3. 2025-04-04
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  4. 2025-03-26
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  5. 2025-03-25
    COLLETT, Jack William appointed
    director
  6. 2025-03-25
    COLLETT, Samuel Nevada appointed
    director
  7. 2025-03-25
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: David Collett (As Security Agent)
  8. 2024-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-02-24
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    withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  12. 2021-12-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-09-07
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2021-09-01
    HARLAND, Michael Sydney appointed
    director
  15. 2021-02-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-04-13
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  19. 2018-04-06
    THORNTON, Nigel Andrew appointed
    director
  20. 2017-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  21. 2016-10-31
    COLLETT, Michael appointed
    secretary
  22. 2016-10-31
    COLLETT, Michael appointed
    director
  23. 2016-07-19
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As COLLETT & SONS LIMITED
  24. 2016-07-19
    COLLETT, David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

71/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "COLLETT" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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

Collett Holdings Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Collett Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent
COLLETT & SONS LIMITED
This company · 10285579

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Collett Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
sig. influencesignificant influence19/07/2016

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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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2016-07-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC52290 — Other transportation support activities

Registered office

Victoria Terminal
Albert Road
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX2 0DF
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-08-01
Last: 2026-07-18

Officers (7 active · 0 resigned)

COLLETT, Michael
secretary · appointed 2016-10-31
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Active
COLLETT, David
director · ~64y · appointed 2016-07-19
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Active
COLLETT, Jack William
director · ~37y · appointed 2025-03-25
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Active
COLLETT, Michael
director · ~59y · appointed 2016-10-31
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Active
COLLETT, Samuel Nevada
director · ~32y · appointed 2025-03-25
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Active
HARLAND, Michael Sydney
director · ~57y · appointed 2021-09-01
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Active
THORNTON, Nigel Andrew
director · ~64y · appointed 2018-04-06
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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
David Collett (As Security Agent)
A registered charge25/03/2025
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Recent filings (34 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-04
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2023-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-12-08
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-09-07