B S LIFT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

NI067456 · ltd · incorporated 2007-12-07

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of head offices

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

13 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

70 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,247,065

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£1.25M	—
Average employees	36	—

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-03-12
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officers · TM01
2026-03-12
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officers · TM01
2026-02-17
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officers · CH01
2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-03-31
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BRADFORD, Katrina resigned
director
2025-03-31
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SMYTH, Maria resigned
director
2024-11-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-07-03
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-07-03
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-03-11
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2021-11-23
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accounts · AA
2021-03-05
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capital · SH01
2021-03-05
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capital · SH01
2021-03-04
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2021-03-04
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capital · SH02
2021-03-04
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capital · SH08
2021-03-04
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-03-04
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-02-23
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MAXWELL, Sophie Clare appointed
director
2021-02-23
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SMYTH, Matthew William appointed
director
2018-08-15
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MCLERNON, Roisin appointed
secretary
2018-08-15
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BRADFORD, Brian James resigned
secretary
2008-04-01
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BRADFORD, Katrina appointed
director
2008-04-01
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SMYTH, Maria appointed
director
2007-12-07
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Company incorporated
As B S LIFT LIMITED
2007-12-07
➕
BRADFORD, Brian James appointed
director
2007-12-07
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SMYTH, Paul Henry appointed
director
2007-12-07
➕
BRADFORD, Brian James appointed
secretary

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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.)

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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

Incorporated2007-12-07

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

2 Glenavy Road

Upper Ballinderry

Lisburn

Antrim

BT28 2EU

Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-25

Last: 2026-03-11

Officers (5 active · 3 resigned)

MCLERNON, Roisin→

secretary · appointed 2018-08-15

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Active

BRADFORD, Brian James→

director · ~71y · appointed 2007-12-07

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Active

MAXWELL, Sophie Clare→

director · ~38y · appointed 2021-02-23

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Active

SMYTH, Matthew William→

director · ~42y · appointed 2021-02-23

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Active

SMYTH, Paul Henry→

director · ~76y · appointed 2007-12-07

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Active

BRADFORD, Brian James→

secretary · appointed 2007-12-07 · resigned 2018-08-15

Resigned

BRADFORD, Katrina→

director · ~64y · appointed 2008-04-01 · resigned 2025-03-31

Resigned

SMYTH, Maria→

director · ~74y · appointed 2008-04-01 · resigned 2025-03-31

Resigned

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Recent filings (70 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-03-12

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2026-03-12

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2026-03-12

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-02-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2025-12-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-03-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2024-11-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-03-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2023-12-21

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2023-07-03

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2023-07-03

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-03-22

accounts-with-accounts-type-group

accounts · AA

2022-12-20

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-03-11

capital-allotment-shares

capital · SH01

2022-03-11