3TL (KIRKBY) LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
11970393 · ltd · incorporated 2019-04-30
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
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
77/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 52101
Sector: Transportation & storage
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 52103SIC 52103
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
17 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
77/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
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
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (14 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-01-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-06-05
    REID, Paul Stanley appointed
    director
  8. 2019-06-05
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2019-06-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  10. 2019-06-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  11. 2019-04-30
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As 3TL (KIRKBY) LIMITED
  12. 2019-04-30
    REID, Paul appointed
    secretary
  13. 2019-04-30
    RUANE, Sheila Mary appointed
    director
  14. 2019-04-30
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

73/100
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 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

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

🏛️
Lrz Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
3TL (KIRKBY) LIMITED
This company · 11970393

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

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Sheila Mary Ruane
Individual · British · DOB 11/1960 · age 66
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control30/04/2019
Lrz Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
2550%
25-50% shares05/06/2019
Mr Ross Martin Baigent
Individual · British · DOB 08/1955 · age 71
2550%
25-50% shares05/06/2019

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
Incorporated2019-04-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC52101 — SIC 52101

Registered office

Cataclean House 34
Wellington Employment Park Dunes Way
Liverpool
Merseyside
L5 9RJ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-19
Last: 2025-06-05

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

REID, Paul
secretary · appointed 2019-04-30
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Active
REID, Paul Stanley
director · ~58y · appointed 2019-06-05
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Active
RUANE, Sheila Mary
director · ~66y · appointed 2019-04-30
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Active

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Recent filings (17 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-01-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-01-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-06-05
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2019-06-05
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2019-06-05