DUNBAR REMOVALS AND STORAGE LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC165409 · ltd · incorporated 1996-05-07
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 11.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Removal services
Sector: Transportation & storage
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 52103SIC 52103
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). 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 11.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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, 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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Average employees131200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-08-22
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    capital · SH10
  11. 2017-08-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2017-08-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2017-05-29
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-06-03
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2016-04-29
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-06-05
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    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2015-05-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Adam & Company PLC
  18. 1996-05-07
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    Company incorporated
    As DUNBAR REMOVALS AND STORAGE LTD.
  19. 1996-05-07
    ➕
    JACHOLKE, Linda Isabella Cunningham appointed
    secretary
  20. 1996-05-07
    ➕
    JACHOLKE, Linda Isabella Cunningham appointed
    director
  21. 1996-05-07
    ➕
    JACHOLKE, Peter Hans appointed
    director
  22. 1996-05-07
    ➕
    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1996-05-07
    ➖
    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1996-05-07
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    COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 1996-05-07
    ➖
    COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 1996-05-07
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    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 1996-05-07
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    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED 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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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 Peter Hans Jacholke
Individual · British · DOB 01/1958 · age 68
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Linda Isabella Cunningham Jacholke
Individual · British · DOB 05/1955 · age 71
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
Incorporated1996-05-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49420 — Removal services

Registered office

Unit N
Gilmerton Estate
North Berwick
East Lothian
EH39 5LQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-21
Last: 2025-05-07

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

JACHOLKE, Linda Isabella Cunningham→
secretary · appointed 1996-05-07
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Active
JACHOLKE, Linda Isabella Cunningham→
director · ~71y · appointed 1996-05-07
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Active
JACHOLKE, Peter Hans→
director · ~68y · appointed 1996-05-07
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Active
COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-05-07 · resigned 1996-05-07
Resigned
COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1996-05-07 · resigned 1996-05-07
Resigned
COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1996-05-07 · resigned 1996-05-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Adam & Company
Adam & Company PLC
A registered charge—23/05/2015—
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Recent filings (74 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-29