H & R TRANSPORT LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC233386 · ltd · incorporated 2002-06-27
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
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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: Freight transport by road
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 address
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-13
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-02-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2025-12-31
    ➖
    MCCANN, Hugh resigned
    director
  4. 2025-11-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-02-14
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2021-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-07-07
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2017-07-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2017-07-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2017-07-07
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  18. 2008-03-01
    ➕
    MCCANN, Richard appointed
    director
  19. 2002-06-27
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As H & R TRANSPORT LTD.
  20. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    MCCANN, Hugh appointed
    secretary
  21. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    MCCANN, Hugh appointed
    director
  22. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2002-06-27
    ➖
    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    MCCANN, Hugh appointed
    director
  25. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 2002-06-27
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 66. 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 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard Mccann
Individual · British · DOB 09/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Hugh Mccann Jnr
Individual · British · DOB 05/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Hugh Mccann Snr
Individual · British · DOB 04/1938 · age 88
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2002-06-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

122 South Barwood Road
Kilsyth
G65 0EZ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-11
Last: 2025-06-27

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

MCCANN, Hugh→
secretary · appointed 2002-06-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCANN, Hugh→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-06-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCANN, Richard→
director · ~65y · appointed 2008-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-06-27 · resigned 2002-06-27
Resigned
MCCANN, Hugh→
director · ~88y · appointed 2002-06-27 · resigned 2025-12-31
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-06-27 · resigned 2002-06-27
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-02-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-02-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-03