MEDEA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01116972 · ltd · incorporated 1973-06-06

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 50.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 50.1y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 50.1 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: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

97 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-05	2024-04-05
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand

2025-11-25
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2024-12-09
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2024-12-09
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2024-11-08
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HOLLAND-BOSWORTH, Melanie Jane appointed
director
2024-11-08
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NICHOLS, Emma Lucinda appointed
director
2024-09-27
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2023-07-19
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2022-09-15
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2021-08-31
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2020-09-04
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2019-08-16
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2019-08-02
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1976-04-26
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Charge registered #1
Lender: C Hoare & Co.
1973-06-06
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Company incorporated
As MEDEA LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Carolyn Steel Individual · British · DOB 12/1950 · age 76	75–100%	50–75%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1973-06-06

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

17 Walkergate

Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Northumberland

TD15 1DJ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-05

Last made up to: 2025-04-05

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-15

Last: 2026-02-01

Officers (5 active · 0 resigned)

STEEL, Carolyn→

secretary

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Active

HOLLAND-BOSWORTH, Melanie Jane→

director · ~53y · appointed 2024-11-08

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Active

NICHOLS, Emma Lucinda→

director · ~52y · appointed 2024-11-08

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Active

STEEL, Carolyn→

director · ~76y

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Active

STEEL, John Derek→

director · ~82y

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	C Hoare & Co.	Legal charge	2 properties	26/04/1976	—

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Recent filings (97 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-03-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-11-25

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-02-13

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2024-12-09

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2024-12-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-09-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-02-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-07-19

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-02-07

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2022-09-15

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-02-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2021-08-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-02-15

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2020-09-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-02-12