ANDREW DUNLOP TRANSPORT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

NI056388 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-05

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 20.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£206.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Freight transport by road

Sector: Transportation & storage

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 20.3y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 20.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

51 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £206,461

Cash YoY

+15%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£36k

↑ 15% YoY

Net Worth

£206k

↑ 19% YoY

Current Assets

£70k

↓ 29% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£291.9k	£230.3k
Current assets	£70.0k	£99.2k
Cash	£35.7k	£31.0k
Debtors	£30.0k	£63.9k
Net assets	£206.5k	£174.2k

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

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1 signal 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2025-12-31
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2006-01-26
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Ulster Bank Limited
2005-09-06
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DUNLOP, Andrew appointed
director
2005-09-06
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MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen resigned
secretary
2005-09-06
➖
CAUGHEY, Eoin resigned
director
2005-09-06
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MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen resigned
director
2005-09-05
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Company incorporated
As ANDREW DUNLOP TRANSPORT LIMITED
2005-09-05
➕
DUNLOP, Judith appointed
secretary
2005-09-05
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DUNLOP, Judith appointed
director
2005-09-05
➕
MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen appointed
secretary
2005-09-05
➕
CAUGHEY, Eoin appointed
director
2005-09-05
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MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen appointed
director

Owner dependency

99/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "DUNLOP" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Judith Dunlop Individual · British · DOB 04/1969 · age 57	25–50%	25–50%	board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence	03/09/2016
Mr Andrew Dunlop Individual · British · DOB 06/1964 · age 62	25–50%	25–50%	board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence · trust interest · firm interest	03/09/2016

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

Incorporated2005-09-05

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

101 Moylagh Road

Legacurry

Beragh

Co Tyrone

BT79 0UN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-17

Last: 2025-09-03

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

DUNLOP, Judith→

secretary · appointed 2005-09-05

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Active

DUNLOP, Andrew→

director · ~62y · appointed 2005-09-06

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Active

DUNLOP, Judith→

director · ~57y · appointed 2005-09-05

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Active

MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen→

secretary · appointed 2005-09-05 · resigned 2005-09-06

Resigned

CAUGHEY, Eoin→

director · ~44y · appointed 2005-09-05 · resigned 2005-09-06

Resigned

MURESAN, Bernadette Noeleen→

director · ~68y · appointed 2005-09-05 · resigned 2005-09-06

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	NatWest Group Ulster Bank Limited	Debenture	1 property	26/01/2006	—

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