AUCHINLEA TYRES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC088584 · ltd · incorporated 1984-06-25
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 40.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 45310SIC 45310
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 40.4y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 40.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile
address, 2 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
8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
107 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
75
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
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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£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees23002300

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-06
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  5. 2023-06-06
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    Charge satisfied #1
  6. 2022-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-04-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2019-04-01
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  12. 2018-06-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-20
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  14. 2017-03-23
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    officers · AP01
  15. 2017-03-23
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    officers · AP01
  16. 2017-03-23
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2017-03-10
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    BRANNAN, Jana Kate appointed
    director
  18. 2017-03-10
    ➕
    WALLACE, Gordon appointed
    director
  19. 2017-03-09
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    WALLACE, Donna Marjorie appointed
    director
  20. 2017-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  21. 1998-09-29
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    WALLACE, Donna Marjorie appointed
    secretary
  22. 1998-09-29
    ➖
    WALLACE, John Patrick resigned
    secretary
  23. 1998-09-10
    ➖
    REID, James Linton resigned
    director
  24. 1996-09-02
    ➖
    MACKENZIE, Roderick Alexander resigned
    director
  25. 1985-11-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  26. 1984-06-25
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AUCHINLEA TYRES LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 42 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr John Patrick Wallace
Individual · British · DOB 04/1942 · age 84
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1984-06-25
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

Units 140/ 142, Block 15
Mosshall Road, Newhouse Ind
Estate, Newhouse, Motherwell
North Lanarkshire,
ML1 5RX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-19
Last: 2025-10-05

Officers (5 active · 3 resigned)

WALLACE, Donna Marjorie→
secretary · appointed 1998-09-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRANNAN, Jana Kate→
director · ~58y · appointed 2017-03-10
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Active
WALLACE, Donna Marjorie→
director · ~60y · appointed 2017-03-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALLACE, Gordon→
director · ~62y · appointed 2017-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALLACE, John Patrick→
director · ~84y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALLACE, John Patrick→
secretary · resigned 1998-09-29
Resigned
MACKENZIE, Roderick Alexander→
director · ~84y · resigned 1996-09-02
Resigned
REID, James Linton→
director · ~97y · resigned 1998-09-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property13/11/198506/06/2023

Recent filings (107 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-07-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-06-15
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-06-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-07-03