HODGE HEAVY HAULAGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC197139 · ltd · incorporated 1999-06-11
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£125.7k
year to Jun 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (85/100).

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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 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
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £10,748

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2023Jun 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-06-302023-06-30
Turnover£125.7k—
Gross profit£36.9k—
Operating profit£10.9k—
Profit before tax£10.7k—
Average employees100100

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 2 officers
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 2 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2026-02-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2026-02-09
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  4. 2026-02-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-06-30
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-02-02
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2010-05-31
    ➖
    HODGE, Audrey Jean resigned
    director
  17. 1999-06-11
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As HODGE HEAVY HAULAGE LIMITED
  18. 1999-06-11
    ➕
    HODGE, Audrey Jean appointed
    secretary
  19. 1999-06-11
    ➕
    HODGE, George appointed
    director
  20. 1999-06-11
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1999-06-11
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1999-06-11
    ➕
    HODGE, Audrey Jean 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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HODGE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr George Hodge
Individual · British · DOB 02/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Audrey Jean Hodge
Individual · British · DOB 02/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1999-06-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Pine Lodge
Kirkfieldbank
Lanark
ML11 9UN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-25
Last: 2025-07-11

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

HODGE, Audrey Jean→
secretary · appointed 1999-06-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HODGE, George→
director · ~64y · appointed 1999-06-11
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-06-11 · resigned 1999-06-11
Resigned
HODGE, Audrey Jean→
director · ~62y · appointed 1999-06-11 · resigned 2010-05-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-09
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-02-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-02-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-30