PATMOND ENERGY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI030470 · ltd · incorporated 1996-02-11
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 29.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£40.12M
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
—
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 50200
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 29.2y

60/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
92 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
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 £2,694,218

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-30
Turnover£40.12M
Gross profit£2.53M
Operating profit£2.67M
Profit before tax£2.69M
Average employees400

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-17
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  3. 2024-02-08
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  4. 2023-03-02
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  5. 2022-03-28
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-12-14
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    LOUGHRAN, Daniel resigned
    director
  7. 2020-12-14
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    LOUGHRAN, Joseph resigned
    director
  8. 2020-12-14
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    LOUGHRAN, Michael Oliver resigned
    director
  9. 2020-12-14
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  10. 2020-12-14
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  11. 2020-12-14
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  12. 2020-12-11
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  13. 2020-03-11
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  14. 2019-03-28
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  15. 2018-03-29
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  16. 2018-03-07
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  17. 2018-02-06
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    address · AD01
  18. 2017-03-20
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    accounts · AA
  19. 2011-08-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  20. 2010-09-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Northern Bank Limited
  21. 2009-12-03
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    BATESON, William Trevor resigned
    director
  22. 2008-12-04
    ➕
    TAGGART, Denise Caroline appointed
    director
  23. 2001-07-06
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    LOUGHRAN, Joseph appointed
    director
  24. 2001-02-01
    ➕
    LOUGHRAN, Daniel appointed
    director
  25. 2001-02-01
    ➕
    LOUGHRAN, Michael Oliver appointed
    director
  26. 1997-03-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Ulster Bank LTD
  27. 1996-02-11
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    Company incorporated
    As PATMOND ENERGY LIMITED
  28. 1996-02-11
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    LOUGHRAN, Michael Cornelius appointed
    secretary
  29. 1996-02-11
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    LOUGHRAN, Michael Cornelius appointed
    director
  30. 1996-02-11
    ➕
    BATESON, William Trevor appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Denise Caroline Taggart
Individual · Northern Irish · DOB 11/1977 · age 49
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1996-02-11
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC50200 — SIC 50200

Registered office

16 Churchtown Road
Cookstown
BT80 9XD
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-25
Last: 2026-02-11

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

LOUGHRAN, Michael Cornelius→
secretary · appointed 1996-02-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOUGHRAN, Michael Cornelius→
director · ~76y · appointed 1996-02-11
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Active
TAGGART, Denise Caroline→
director · ~49y · appointed 2008-12-04
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Active
BATESON, William Trevor→
director · ~93y · appointed 1996-02-11 · resigned 2009-12-03
Resigned
LOUGHRAN, Daniel→
director · ~48y · appointed 2001-02-01 · resigned 2020-12-14
Resigned
LOUGHRAN, Joseph→
director · ~69y · appointed 2001-07-06 · resigned 2020-12-14
Resigned
LOUGHRAN, Michael Oliver→
director · ~50y · appointed 2001-02-01 · resigned 2020-12-14
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Northern Bank
Northern Bank Limited
Floating charge1 property16/09/2010—
satisfied
NatWest Group
Ulster Bank LTD
Mortgage or charge1 property19/03/199704/08/2011
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Recent filings (92 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-24
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-11