OLIVERS TRANSPORT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC115642 · ltd · incorporated 1989-01-16
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 23.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 52103SIC 52103
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 85). 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 23.8y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.8 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, 2 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
105 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.

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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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Assets
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees44004200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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
1
filing
  • • 1 capital
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 capital
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 capital
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-30
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    capital · SH03
  2. 2025-07-30
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  3. 2024-11-18
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  4. 2024-11-08
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  5. 2024-07-30
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  6. 2023-10-17
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  7. 2023-10-17
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  8. 2023-07-28
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-08-26
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  10. 2022-08-26
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  11. 2022-07-12
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  12. 2021-10-07
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  13. 2021-10-07
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2021-09-22
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    capital · SH01
  15. 2021-09-21
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    officers · TM01
  16. 2021-08-10
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2021-06-10
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    OLIVER, Norman resigned
    director
  18. 2020-08-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2019-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2002-07-29
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Scottish Enterprise Borders
  21. 1989-01-17
    ➕
    OLIVER, Evelyn Ellen Lynn appointed
    secretary
  22. 1989-01-16
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    Company incorporated
    As OLIVERS TRANSPORT LIMITED
  23. 1989-01-16
    ➕
    OLIVER, Evelyn Ellen Lynn appointed
    director
  24. 1989-01-16
    ➕
    OLIVER, Kenneth Andrew appointed
    director
  25. 1989-01-16
    ➕
    FELDMAN, Sidney appointed
    secretary
  26. 1989-01-16
    ➖
    FELDMAN, Sidney resigned
    secretary
  27. 1989-01-16
    ➕
    OLIVER, Norman appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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 "OLIVER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 37 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 85 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 37 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 37 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
Kenneth Andrew Oliver
Individual · British · DOB 05/1965 · age 61
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Evelyn Ellen Lynn Oliverceased 02/10/2024· significant influence
  • Norman Oliverceased 10/06/2021· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated1989-01-16
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Hassington Road
Eccles
Kelso
Roxburghshire
TD5 7QS

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-15
Last: 2025-10-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

OLIVER, Evelyn Ellen Lynn→
secretary · appointed 1989-01-17
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Active
OLIVER, Evelyn Ellen Lynn→
director · ~85y · appointed 1989-01-16
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Active
OLIVER, Kenneth Andrew→
director · ~61y · appointed 1989-01-16
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Active
FELDMAN, Sidney→
secretary · appointed 1989-01-16 · resigned 1989-01-16
Resigned
OLIVER, Norman→
director · ~87y · appointed 1989-01-16 · resigned 2021-06-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Scottish Enterprise Borders
Standard security1 property29/07/2002—
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Recent filings (105 total)

capital-return-purchase-own-shares-treasury-capital-date
capital · SH03
2026-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-11-18
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-10-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-08-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-12