DRIVING FORCE - SPORTS ENGINEERING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC179655 · ltd · incorporated 1997-10-14

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

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

66 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years 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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	0	0

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 address

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 address
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-03-24
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address · AD01
2025-12-12
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accounts · AA
2024-12-20
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accounts · AA
2023-12-20
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accounts · AA
2022-12-07
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accounts · AA
2021-11-24
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accounts · AA
2021-02-17
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accounts · AA
2019-11-25
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accounts · AA
2018-11-28
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accounts · AA
2017-11-27
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accounts · AA
2016-11-28
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accounts · AA
2015-11-26
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accounts · AA
2015-10-20
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annual-return · AR01
2014-11-27
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accounts · AA
2014-11-03
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annual-return · AR01
1998-11-23
➕
WHITE, Chris appointed
secretary
1997-10-14
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Company incorporated
As DRIVING FORCE - SPORTS ENGINEERING LIMITED
1997-10-14
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PROPHET, Karen appointed
director
1997-10-14
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WHITE, Chris appointed
director
1997-10-14
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REID, Brian appointed
nominee-secretary
1997-10-14
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REID, Brian resigned
nominee-secretary
1997-10-14
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MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
nominee-director
1997-10-14
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MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
nominee-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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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
Ms Karen Prophet Individual · British · DOB 11/1964 · age 62	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Chris White Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated1997-10-14

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Unit 5 Gateway Business Park

Beancross Road

Grangemouth

FK3 8WX

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-28

Last: 2025-10-14

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WHITE, Chris→

secretary · appointed 1998-11-23

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Active

PROPHET, Karen→

director · ~62y · appointed 1997-10-14

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Active

WHITE, Chris→

director · ~67y · appointed 1997-10-14

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Active

REID, Brian→

nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-10-14 · resigned 1997-10-14

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen→

nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1997-10-14 · resigned 1997-10-14

Resigned

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Recent filings (66 total)

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address · AD01

2026-03-24

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accounts · AA

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