THOMAS POWLEY & SON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC281002 · ltd · incorporated 2005-03-03
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 16.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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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
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 59). 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 16.8y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.8 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 (77/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
55 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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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees800900

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-02-07
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  6. 2022-02-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-02-02
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    capital · SH01
  8. 2021-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-20
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2016-04-20
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    address · AD01
  15. 2015-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2009-08-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  17. 2005-03-03
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    Company incorporated
    As THOMAS POWLEY & SON LIMITED
  18. 2005-03-03
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    POWLEY, Paula Louise appointed
    secretary
  19. 2005-03-03
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    POWLEY, Paula Louise appointed
    director
  20. 2005-03-03
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    POWLEY, Thomas Edward appointed
    director

Owner dependency

99/100
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 "POWLEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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 Thomas Edward Powley
Individual · British · DOB 07/1968 · age 58
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control03/03/2017
Mrs Paula Louise Powley
Individual · British · DOB 04/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control03/03/2017

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
Incorporated2005-03-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC49410 — Freight transport by road

Registered office

Elmside
Eastriggs
Annan
Dumfriesshire
DG12 6TF
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-17
Last: 2026-03-03

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

POWLEY, Paula Louise→
secretary · appointed 2005-03-03
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Active
POWLEY, Paula Louise→
director · ~59y · appointed 2005-03-03
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Active
POWLEY, Thomas Edward→
director · ~58y · appointed 2005-03-03
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property14/08/2009—
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Recent filings (55 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-16
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2022-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-02
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-02-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-02-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-03