EDWARD GRAY OF DUDLEY LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
00495573 · ltd · incorporated 1951-05-19
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 38.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£602.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10821
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 46360Wholesale of sugar and chocolate and sugar confectionery
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
4 live charges · oldest 38.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 38.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
112 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £602,616
Cash YoY
+10%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£329k
↑ 10% YoY
Net Worth
£603k
↑ 6.4% YoY
Current Assets
£644k
↓ 7.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-06-01 | 2024-06-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £809.4k | £780.1k |
| Current assets | £644.2k | £692.5k |
| Cash | £328.6k | £298.5k |
| Debtors | £220.3k | £321.6k |
| Net assets | £602.6k | £566.2k |
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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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 officers
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 officers
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-06📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-01-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-02-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-22📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-01-27📄accounts-with-made-up-dateaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-01-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-29📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2020-09-10📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2020-08-25📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2020-08-18📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2020-08-18📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-08-18📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-08-18📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2020-08-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2020-08-14📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2020-07-07📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2020-07-07📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2020-07-01➖GUEST, Philip resigneddirector
- 2020-07-01🔒Charge registered #4Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2020-07-01🔒Charge registered #3Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2020-03-17🔒Charge registered #2Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2020-03-09🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2019-05-17➖GUEST, Betty Doreen resignedsecretary
- 2019-05-17➖GUEST, Betty Doreen resigneddirector
- 2017-11-22➕GRAY, John appointeddirector
- 2017-01-13➖GRAY, Edward Benjamin Clifford resigneddirector
- 1988-01-12🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1951-05-19🏢Company incorporatedAs EDWARD GRAY OF DUDLEY LIMITED
Owner dependency
81/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 "GRAY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple 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.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 75 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mrs Julie Healy Individual · British · DOB 10/1963 · age 63 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 01/07/2020 |
Mr John Gray Individual · British · DOB 11/1970 · age 56 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 17/05/2019 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Ms Betty Doreen Guestceased 17/05/2019· 25-50% shares
- Mr Edward Benjamin Clifford Grayceased 18/12/2017· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1951-05-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10821 — SIC 10821
Registered office
54 North Street
Dudley
West Midlands
DY2 7DT.
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-01
Last made up to: 2025-06-01
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30
Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)
Active
Active
GUEST, Betty Doreen→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2019-05-17
GRAY, Edward Benjamin Clifford→
Resigneddirector · ~90y · resigned 2017-01-13
GUEST, Betty Doreen→
Resigneddirector · ~98y · resigned 2019-05-17
GUEST, Philip→
Resigneddirector · ~67y · resigned 2020-07-01
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Mortgages & charges
4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 01/07/2020 | — | |
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 01/07/2020 | — | |
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 17/03/2020 | — | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Legal mortgage | 1 property | 12/01/1988 | 09/03/2020 |
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Recent filings (112 total)
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-02-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-12
accounts-with-made-up-date
accounts · AA
2023-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-30
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2020-09-29