HARBOUR HAULAGE LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC202822 · ltd · incorporated 2000-01-06
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 25.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£951.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (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. 2 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
2 live charges · oldest 25.6y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 25.6 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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
72 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £951,918
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£313k
Net Worth
£952k
Current Assets
£521k
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.08M | — |
| Current assets | £521.1k | — |
| Cash | £313.4k | — |
| Debtors | £197.1k | — |
| Net assets | £951.9k | — |
| Average employees | — | 1200 |
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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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-01-20📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-06-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-08📄change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH04
- 2021-12-06📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-09-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-07-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-17📄change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH04
- 2018-09-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2017-12-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-12-14📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-09-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2001-06-08🔒Charge registered #2Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
- 2000-09-05🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
- 2000-09-01➕SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2000-09-01➖THE COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2000-01-14➕SIMPSON, Raymond appointeddirector
- 2000-01-14➕STEPHEN, Norman appointeddirector
- 2000-01-14➖MMA NOMINEES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2000-01-06🏢Company incorporatedAs HARBOUR HAULAGE LIMITED
- 2000-01-06➕THE COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2000-01-06➕MMA NOMINEES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
76/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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
cleanNo 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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Raymond Simpson Individual · British · DOB 05/1964 · age 62 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 14/07/2017 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-01-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road
Registered office
37 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
Aberdeen City
AB10 1YN
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-25
Last: 2026-02-11
Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)
SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Activecorporate-secretary · appointed 2000-09-01
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SIMPSON, Raymond→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2000-01-14
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STEPHEN, Norman→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2000-01-14
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THE COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-01-06 · resigned 2000-09-01
MMA NOMINEES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-01-06 · resigned 2000-01-14
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Standard security | 1 property | 08/06/2001 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 05/09/2000 | — |
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Recent filings (72 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-09
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2022-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-31
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-12-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-17