BJ'S AUTOSHOP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC260605 · ltd · incorporated 2003-12-10
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.
Why now
Window closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Deal-killer verdict: complicated → clean
  • · Asset backing: none → unknown
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Deal-killer verdict: complicated → clean
  • ·Asset backing: none → unknown
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
£92.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle 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 (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
55 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £92,336
Net assets shrinking
Down £10,110 YoY

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
£92k
↓ 9.9% YoY
Current Assets
£133k
↓ 27% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£36k£73k£109k£146k£182kDec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£92.3k£197.7k£160.3k
Current assets£132.8k£182.3k£140.3k
Net assets£92.3k£102.4k£64.1k

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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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-19
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  2. 2025-09-30
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  3. 2024-07-24
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  4. 2023-09-04
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  5. 2022-09-06
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  6. 2022-02-23
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    officers · TM02
  7. 2022-02-22
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    WWW.FIRSTREGISTRARS.CO.UK LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  8. 2021-09-30
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  9. 2020-12-31
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  10. 2019-09-26
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  11. 2018-09-28
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  12. 2017-09-27
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  13. 2016-09-28
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  14. 2015-12-23
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  15. 2015-09-28
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  16. 2014-12-15
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  17. 2004-12-01
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    WWW.FIRSTREGISTRARS.CO.UK LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2004-11-30
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    CROSSING REGISTRARS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  19. 2004-03-10
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    SINGER, Frederick Nicholas George resigned
    director
  20. 2004-03-09
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    WRIGHT, Morag Darg appointed
    director
  21. 2004-03-09
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    WRIGHT, Robert James appointed
    director
  22. 2003-12-10
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    Company incorporated
    As BJ'S AUTOSHOP LIMITED
  23. 2003-12-10
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    CROSSING REGISTRARS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2003-12-10
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    SINGER, Frederick Nicholas George appointed
    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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — 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 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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 Robert James Wright
Individual · British · DOB 12/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Morag Darg Wright
Individual · British · DOB 06/1963 · age 63
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
Incorporated2003-12-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC45320 — Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Registered office

Afm House
6 Crofthead Road
Prestwick
Ayrshire
KA9 1HW

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-04
Last: 2025-09-20

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

WRIGHT, Morag Darg→
director · ~63y · appointed 2004-03-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WRIGHT, Robert James→
director · ~67y · appointed 2004-03-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CROSSING REGISTRARS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-12-10 · resigned 2004-11-30
Resigned
WWW.FIRSTREGISTRARS.CO.UK LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-12-01 · resigned 2022-02-22
Resigned
SINGER, Frederick Nicholas George→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-12-10 · resigned 2004-03-10
Resigned

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Recent filings (55 total)

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2025-09-30
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2025-09-29
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2024-09-26
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2024-07-24
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2023-10-04
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2023-09-04
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2022-10-05
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accounts · AA
2022-09-06
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officers · TM02
2022-02-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-26