ALLENFIELD PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00864487 · ltd · incorporated 1965-11-19
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2025
Net worth
£231.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28290
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
106 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £231,652
Net assets shrinking
Down £5,263 YoY
Cash YoY
-8%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£228k
↓ 7.8% YoY
Net Worth
£232k
↓ 2.2% YoY
Current Assets
£303k
↓ 6.2% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£65k£129k£194k£259k£323kNov 2024Nov 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-11-302024-11-30
Total assets£233.2k£238.9k
Current assets£303.2k£323.4k
Cash£228.4k£247.7k
Debtors£72.2k£73.0k
Net assets£231.7k£236.9k

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

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-19
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  3. 2024-04-05
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  4. 2023-08-04
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  5. 2022-06-08
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  6. 2021-08-19
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  7. 2020-09-29
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  8. 2019-07-01
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  9. 2018-06-12
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-08-11
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-07-24
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  12. 2017-07-24
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2017-07-24
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  14. 2016-08-05
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-10-29
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1999-12-01
    ➖
    MERRIFIELD, Laurence John resigned
    director
  17. 1996-06-19
    ➕
    DAVIES, Joanna Jane appointed
    director
  18. 1996-06-19
    ➕
    MERRIFIELD, Jonathan appointed
    director
  19. 1996-06-19
    ➕
    MERRIFIELD, Simon Charles appointed
    director
  20. 1996-06-19
    ➕
    MERRIFIELD, Laurence John appointed
    director
  21. 1996-04-19
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    MERRIFIELD, John Ernest Patrick resigned
    director
  22. 1994-05-16
    ➕
    DAVIES, Joanna Jane appointed
    secretary
  23. 1994-05-15
    ➖
    MERRIFIELD, Audrey Alice resigned
    secretary
  24. 1994-05-15
    ➖
    MERRIFIELD, Audrey Alice resigned
    director
  25. 1965-11-19
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    Company incorporated
    As ALLENFIELD PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 61 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Joanna Jane Davies
Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Jonathan Merrifield
Individual · British · DOB 12/1954 · age 72
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Simon Charles Merrifield
Individual · British · DOB 09/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% 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
Incorporated1965-11-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC28290 — SIC 28290

Registered office

Richs Sidings
Lower Broadway
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 8AG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-08-31
Last made up to: 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-20
Last: 2025-10-06

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

DAVIES, Joanna Jane→
secretary · appointed 1994-05-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DAVIES, Joanna Jane→
director · ~65y · appointed 1996-06-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MERRIFIELD, Jonathan→
director · ~72y · appointed 1996-06-19
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Active
MERRIFIELD, Simon Charles→
director · ~74y · appointed 1996-06-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MERRIFIELD, Audrey Alice→
secretary · resigned 1994-05-15
Resigned
MERRIFIELD, Audrey Alice→
director · ~100y · resigned 1994-05-15
Resigned
MERRIFIELD, John Ernest Patrick→
director · ~103y · resigned 1996-04-19
Resigned
MERRIFIELD, Laurence John→
director · ~76y · appointed 1996-06-19 · resigned 1999-12-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (106 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-04-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-19
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-19
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-01