AAR MOTORS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07357640 · ltd · incorporated 2010-08-26
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
- · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 33140
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company 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 (80/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
31 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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
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Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
Recent activity
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2020-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2017-05-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2015-09-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2015-09-01📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2014-08-29📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2014-05-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2010-08-26🏢Company incorporatedAs AAR MOTORS LIMITED
- 2010-08-26➕TARR, David Paul appointeddirector
- 2010-08-26➕TARR, Karen Yvonne appointeddirector
Owner dependency
96/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 16 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.
- +No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mrs Karen Yvonne Tarr Individual · British · DOB 10/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 26/08/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-08-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC33140 — SIC 33140
Registered office
Unit 27 Dawley Trading Estate
Stallings Lane
Kingswinford
West Midlands
DY6 7AP
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-09
Last: 2025-08-26
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
TARR, David Paul→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2010-08-26
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TARR, Karen Yvonne→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2010-08-26
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Recent filings (31 total)
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2025-09-01
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2025-08-29
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2024-09-19
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2024-08-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2023-08-31
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2023-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2022-09-01
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2022-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2021-08-31
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2021-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2020-11-16
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2020-08-26
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2020-04-27
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2019-08-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2018-10-26