LIONEL HITCHEN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00838331 · ltd · incorporated 1965-02-19

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 14.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10890

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 14.8y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 14.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

15 officers (10 active, 15 linked, 13 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

121 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

80/100Exceptional

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

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Average employees	14000	13300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand

2025-10-03
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-09-29
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EVANS, Nicholas David William appointed
director
2025-09-22
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-09-16
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HITCHEN, Louisa Meldrum resigned
director
2025-08-05
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-01-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-01-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-06-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-05-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-10
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-10
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-05-03
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SCANTLEBURY, Colin William appointed
director
2024-05-03
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METCALFE, Timothy Ian resigned
director
2023-10-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-10-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-05-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-06-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-06-01
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-24
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-11-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-10-29
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KHAN, Mohammed Hussain appointed
director
2021-07-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2020-07-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2016-03-07
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BROWN, Timothy Neil appointed
director
2016-02-01
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THOMSON, Darren Julian appointed
secretary
2016-02-01
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BARNES, Alison Mackie resigned
secretary
2015-03-30
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MCNAIR, Helen Irene appointed
director
2014-04-01
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METCALFE, Timothy Ian appointed
director
2013-06-01
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WALTON, David Stewart resigned
director
2012-10-01
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WALTON, David Stewart appointed
director
2012-07-31
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AGNEW, Eva Louise appointed
director
2011-09-01
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2008-07-23
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HITCHEN, Lionel Laughland resigned
director
1965-02-19
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Company incorporated
As LIONEL HITCHEN LIMITED

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-9 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HITCHEN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
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.)

Group structure

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

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Allos Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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LIONEL HITCHEN LIMITED

This company · 00838331

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Allos Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Alison Mackie Barnesceased 06/04/2016· significant influence

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1965-02-19

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10890 — SIC 10890

Registered office

Virginia Works

Greenwich Way

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 4JX

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-23

Last: 2026-01-09