CALGOW TRANSPORT LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC209835 · ltd · incorporated 2000-08-09
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
—
Upgrade to see
Turnover
—
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
🔔
Follow this company (free)
Email alerts on filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices. No account needed.

Unsubscribe any time from any email. GDPR-respectful.

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch
What this business does
Primary activity: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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 (73/100).

🏦

Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 25.0y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
63 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
—
Net Worth
—
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees100100

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-04-26
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-06
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-06-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-06-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-06-26
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-08-12
    📄
    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  8. 2019-05-16
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-06-12
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-07-25
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-07-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-08-11
    📄
    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-07-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2014-08-14
    📄
    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-08-14
    📄
    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  16. 2014-07-01
    ➕
    JOLLY, Meganne appointed
    secretary
  17. 2014-07-01
    ➖
    JOLLY, William James resigned
    secretary
  18. 2010-10-18
    ➖
    JOLLY, Anne Elizabeth Forsyth resigned
    secretary
  19. 2010-10-18
    ➕
    JOLLY, William James appointed
    secretary
  20. 2008-08-09
    ➖
    JOLLY, Jai William resigned
    director
  21. 2001-04-16
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  22. 2000-08-09
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CALGOW TRANSPORT LIMITED
  23. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    JOLLY, Anne Elizabeth Forsyth appointed
    director
  24. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    JOLLY, Anne Elizabeth Forsyth appointed
    secretary
  25. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2000-08-09
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 2000-08-09
    ➕
    JOLLY, Jai William 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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

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 66. 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 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

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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Anne Elizabeth Forsyth Jolly
Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66
——sig. influencesignificant influence30/06/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Similar companies

Active · Transport & logistics · DG postcode area
CompanyEst. valueTurnoverNet worthStaffAgeOppDirector
JOHN MILLER LIMITED→
SC098434 · est 1986
£3.29M
£2.46M–£4.11M
£11.59M—690040y8472y
MC CALL'S COACHES LIMITED→
SC293378 · est 2005
——£154.1k—20y8362y
A J SLAVIN & SONS LIMITED→
SC262782 · est 2004
———322y8259y
FINNIE HEAVY HAULAGE LIMITED→
SC230925 · est 2002
——£3.05M—23y8259y
G A TRANSPORT LIMITED→
SC261778 · est 2004
———122y8267y
LINES DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LIMITED→
SC246460 · est 2003
———270023y8263y
MARTIN JOLLY TRUCK HIRE LIMITED→
SC117282 · est 1989
———270037y8275y
ANNANDALE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES→
SC200686 · est 1999 · no financials extracted
————26y8192y
HAULAGE EXPRESS LIMITED→
SC031221 · est 1955 · no financials extracted
————70y——
J MCCULLOCH & SON LTD→
SC685363 · est 2021 · no financials extracted
————5y——
JARDINE LOGISTICS LIMITED→
SC363669 · est 2009 · no financials extracted
————16y——
P.S.RIDGWAY LIMITED→
SC059996 · est 1976 · no financials extracted
————49y——
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →
🔒Advanced scoring suite

Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-08-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Calgow
Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire
DG8 7AN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-23
Last: 2025-08-09

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

JOLLY, Meganne→
secretary · appointed 2014-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JOLLY, Anne Elizabeth Forsyth→
director · ~66y · appointed 2000-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JOLLY, Anne Elizabeth Forsyth→
secretary · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2010-10-18
Resigned
JOLLY, William James→
secretary · appointed 2010-10-18 · resigned 2014-07-01
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2000-08-09
Resigned
JOLLY, Jai William→
director · ~45y · appointed 2000-08-09 · resigned 2008-08-09
Resigned

Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.

Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property16/04/2001—
Click column headers to sort. Use filters above to narrow by status and lender.

Recent filings (63 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-12
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2019-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-16