F.W.J. COOK (TRANSPORT) LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC275365 · ltd · incorporated 2004-10-29

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£165.3k

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

Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

56 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £165,280

Net assets shrinking

Down £27,537 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£165k

↓ 14% YoY

Current Assets

£100k

↑ 32% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£167.1k	£194.7k
Current assets	£100.2k	£75.7k
Net assets	£165.3k	£192.8k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-03-02
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2026-03-02
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2025-12-23
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2024-12-30
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2023-12-18
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2022-10-31
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2022-01-13
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2020-11-13
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2019-12-19
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2018-08-13
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2017-11-06
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2016-12-02
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2015-10-29
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2015-08-10
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2014-11-20
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2004-10-29
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Company incorporated
As F.W.J. COOK (TRANSPORT) LTD
2004-10-29
➕
COOK, Christine appointed
secretary
2004-10-29
➕
COOK, Christine appointed
director
2004-10-29
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COOK, Frederick William James appointed
director
2004-10-29
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HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
corporate-secretary
2004-10-29
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HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
corporate-secretary
2004-10-29
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HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD. appointed
corporate-director
2004-10-29
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HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD. resigned
corporate-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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "COOK" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — 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 68. 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 22 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Christine Cook Individual · British · DOB 03/1961 · age 65	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	02/03/2026
Mr Frederick William James Cook Individual · British · DOB 12/1958 · age 68	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	29/10/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Christine Cookceased 02/03/2026· 25-50% shares

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

Incorporated2004-10-29

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

The Homestead Poole Farm

Kinnell

Arbroath

Angus

DD11 4RY

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-21

Last: 2025-10-07

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

COOK, Christine→

secretary · appointed 2004-10-29

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Active

COOK, Christine→

director · ~65y · appointed 2004-10-29

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Active

COOK, Frederick William James→

director · ~68y · appointed 2004-10-29

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Active

HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD.→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-10-29 · resigned 2004-10-29

Resigned

HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD.→

corporate-director · appointed 2004-10-29 · resigned 2004-10-29

Resigned

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Recent filings (56 total)

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2026-03-02

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2026-03-02