A.OPPENHEIMER & CO. LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00460933 · ltd · incorporated 1948-11-08
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 35.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

2 live charges · oldest 35.2y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.2 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: 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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
11 officers (3 active, 11 linked, 8 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
130 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees20002000

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

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Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-30
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  2. 2024-09-24
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  3. 2023-08-25
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  4. 2022-06-01
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  5. 2021-07-05
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  6. 2020-10-09
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  7. 2020-06-03
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  8. 2019-06-06
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  9. 2018-04-17
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  10. 2017-07-07
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  11. 2016-09-23
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  12. 2015-11-06
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  13. 2015-09-24
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  14. 2014-10-10
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  15. 2014-09-29
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  16. 2007-11-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  17. 2006-12-31
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    ADLER, Fiona Josephine resigned
    director
  18. 2001-08-06
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    ADLER, Douglas Jeffrey resigned
    director
  19. 2000-01-25
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    HUGHES, Martin Edward appointed
    director
  20. 1999-12-31
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    NORTON, Albert Paul resigned
    director
  21. 1999-07-05
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    HUGHES, Martin Edward appointed
    secretary
  22. 1999-06-11
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    PIERCE, Sandra Gillian resigned
    secretary
  23. 1998-05-27
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    MITCHELL, David Bruce resigned
    secretary
  24. 1998-05-27
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    PIERCE, Sandra Gillian appointed
    secretary
  25. 1997-11-24
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    ADLER, Michael Alan appointed
    director
  26. 1997-11-24
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    ADLER, Fiona Josephine appointed
    director
  27. 1997-11-24
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    ADLER, John James resigned
    director
  28. 1997-11-24
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    MITCHELL, David Bruce resigned
    director
  29. 1997-11-24
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    NORTON, Albert Paul appointed
    director
  30. 1997-11-24
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    THOMAS, Brian Edward resigned
    director
  31. 1991-02-25
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  32. 1948-11-08
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    Company incorporated
    As A.OPPENHEIMER & CO. LIMITED

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

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 64. 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 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 78 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Michael Alan Adler
Individual · British · DOB 11/1962 · age 64
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting26/09/2016

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

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

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1948-11-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

20 Vanguard Way
Shoeburynes
Southend On Sea
Essex
SS3 9RA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-10
Last: 2025-09-26

Officers (3 active · 8 resigned)

HUGHES, Martin Edward→
secretary · appointed 1999-07-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ADLER, Michael Alan→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-11-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUGHES, Martin Edward→
director · ~58y · appointed 2000-01-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MITCHELL, David Bruce→
secretary · resigned 1998-05-27
Resigned
PIERCE, Sandra Gillian→
secretary · appointed 1998-05-27 · resigned 1999-06-11
Resigned
ADLER, Douglas Jeffrey→
director · ~89y · resigned 2001-08-06
Resigned
ADLER, Fiona Josephine→
director · ~62y · appointed 1997-11-24 · resigned 2006-12-31
Resigned
ADLER, John James→
director · ~91y · resigned 1997-11-24
Resigned
MITCHELL, David Bruce→
director · ~90y · resigned 1997-11-24
Resigned
NORTON, Albert Paul→
director · ~85y · appointed 1997-11-24 · resigned 1999-12-31
Resigned
THOMAS, Brian Edward→
director · ~90y · resigned 1997-11-24
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property16/11/2007—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property25/02/1991—
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Recent filings (130 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-05
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2020-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-06