DELTAWAITE (NBE) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00851735 · ltd · incorporated 1965-06-15
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 30.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 30.9y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 30.9 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, 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
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
95 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

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

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-08-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-07-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  8. 2020-07-08
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2020-01-03
    ➕
    BROCKLEBANK, Karin Marie appointed
    director
  10. 2020-01-03
    ➖
    BROCKLEBANK, Ronald resigned
    director
  11. 2019-04-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-03-26
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  13. 2019-02-09
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    BROCKLEBANK, Guy Anthony resigned
    secretary
  14. 2018-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-09-28
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  17. 2016-10-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  18. 2015-12-24
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  19. 2007-08-18
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    Charge satisfied #1
  20. 2000-11-01
    ➕
    BROCKLEBANK, Guy Anthony appointed
    secretary
  21. 2000-11-01
    ➖
    BROCKLEBANK, Mildred resigned
    secretary
  22. 2000-11-01
    ➖
    BROCKLEBANK, Mildred resigned
    director
  23. 1995-08-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1993-10-23
    ➖
    PEMBERTON, Alan James resigned
    director
  25. 1991-06-30
    ➖
    LITTLEHALES, George Henry resigned
    director
  26. 1965-06-15
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As DELTAWAITE (NBE) LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 61 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Deltawaite Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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Deltawaite Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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DELTAWAITE (NBE) LIMITED
This company · 00851735

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Deltawaite Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
Deltawaite Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1965-06-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Roose Road
Barrow-In-Furness
Cumbria
LA13 0EP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-17
Last: 2025-11-03

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

BROCKLEBANK, Karin Marie→
director · ~62y · appointed 2020-01-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARRISON, Neil→
director · ~73y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROCKLEBANK, Guy Anthony→
secretary · appointed 2000-11-01 · resigned 2019-02-09
Resigned
BROCKLEBANK, Mildred→
secretary · resigned 2000-11-01
Resigned
BROCKLEBANK, Mildred→
director · ~96y · resigned 2000-11-01
Resigned
BROCKLEBANK, Ronald→
director · ~96y · resigned 2020-01-03
Resigned
LITTLEHALES, George Henry→
director · ~91y · resigned 1991-06-30
Resigned
PEMBERTON, Alan James→
director · ~92y · resigned 1993-10-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property18/08/199518/08/2007

Recent filings (95 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-08-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-07-08
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-07-08
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-02