ALDON 8 LIMITED

🌿Early-stageactive
SC775677 · ltd · incorporated 2023-07-13
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
75/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 52103
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and acceptable with review structure.

Opportunity 75/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
9 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
75/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
70
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 accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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

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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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (8 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  3. 2024-10-10
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2024-09-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-09-13
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  6. 2023-07-13
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    Company incorporated
    As ALDON 8 LIMITED
  7. 2023-07-13
    SPENCE, Stuart John appointed
    director
  8. 2023-07-13
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Young company: Only 2.8 years old — management layer unlikely to be developed.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Autoporto Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Autoporto Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
ALDON 8 LIMITED
This company · SC775677

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Autoporto Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control08/10/2024
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Stuart John Spenceceased 08/10/2024· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

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
Incorporated2023-07-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC52103 — SIC 52103

Registered office

Technology House
9 Newton Place
Glasgow
G3 7PR
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-05
Last: 2025-11-21

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

SPENCE, Stuart John
director · ~63y · appointed 2023-07-13
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Recent filings (9 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-21
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-10-10
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-09-16
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-23
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2023-07-13