G A TRANSPORT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC261778 · ltd · incorporated 2004-01-12

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

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 18.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Freight transport by road

Sector: Transportation & storage

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 18.4y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 18.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (70/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

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

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

54 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30
Average employees	1

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 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-03-18
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accounts · AA
2026-03-04
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-03-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-03-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-25
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FORTEATH, Kier resigned
director
2023-01-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-20
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-09-05
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FORTEATH, Kier appointed
director
2022-01-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-06
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-11-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2017-03-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2016-03-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2007-12-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2004-01-12
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Company incorporated
As G A TRANSPORT LIMITED
2004-01-12
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HENDERSON, Anne appointed
secretary
2004-01-12
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HENDERSON, Anne appointed
director
2004-01-12
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HENDERSON, George appointed
director
2004-01-12
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2004-01-12
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

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 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
Mr George Henderson Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	01/07/2016
Mrs Anne Henderson Individual · British · DOB 01/1965 · age 61	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	01/07/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2004-01-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

23 George Street

Dumfries

DG1 1EA

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-24

Last: 2026-01-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

HENDERSON, Anne→

secretary · appointed 2004-01-12

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Active

HENDERSON, Anne→

director · ~61y · appointed 2004-01-12

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Active

HENDERSON, George→

director · ~67y · appointed 2004-01-12

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-01-12 · resigned 2004-01-12

Resigned

FORTEATH, Kier→

director · ~36y · appointed 2022-09-05 · resigned 2024-01-25

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Bond & floating charge	1 property	11/12/2007	—

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Recent filings (54 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-03-18

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2026-03-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-03-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-15

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-08-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-03-06

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-01-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-01-20

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-01-10

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2022-10-20

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-01-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-01-17

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2021-09-06

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-03-11