ALANIC ENGINEERING LIMITED

📉Decliningactive
01280887 · ltd · incorporated 1976-10-08
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
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Dental practice activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (88/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 32.5y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 32.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
12 officers (3 active, 12 linked, 9 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
127 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £129,111

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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Profit before tax£129.1k£533.4k
Average employees393300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-24
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-03-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2026-01-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-08-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2025-03-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-09-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-09-26
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  9. 2023-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-10-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-07-27
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  13. 2021-07-27
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    Charge satisfied #2
  14. 2021-07-13
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  15. 2021-07-13
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2021-07-08
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  17. 2021-07-08
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  18. 2020-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2019-11-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2013-01-23
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    PROBERT, Natalie resigned
    director
  22. 2012-07-01
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    PROBERT, Natalie appointed
    director
  23. 2011-02-08
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
  24. 2009-12-14
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    DE KOK, Frits David resigned
    director
  25. 2009-09-02
    ➕
    DE KOK, Frits David appointed
    director
  26. 2004-08-31
    ➕
    LODGE, Jonathan Paul appointed
    secretary
  27. 2004-08-31
    ➖
    CHIVERS, Michael Francis resigned
    secretary
  28. 2004-08-31
    ➖
    CHIVERS, Michael Francis resigned
    director
  29. 2004-08-31
    ➖
    DRAPER, Jane Michelle resigned
    director
  30. 2004-08-03
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  31. 2003-09-01
    ➕
    LODGE, Jonathan Paul appointed
    director
  32. 1999-07-01
    ➕
    BROWN, Yvonne Mahood appointed
    director
  33. 1994-01-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  34. 1993-12-20
    ➕
    CHIVERS, Michael Francis appointed
    secretary
  35. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    HEESOM, Thomas Michael Anthony resigned
    secretary
  36. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    AVERILL, Anthony Stuart resigned
    director
  37. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    CALDER, Christopher Menzies resigned
    director
  38. 1993-12-20
    ➕
    CHIVERS, Michael Francis appointed
    director
  39. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    HEESOM, Thomas Michael Anthony resigned
    director
  40. 1991-07-01
    ➕
    DRAPER, Jane Michelle appointed
    director
  41. 1976-10-08
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ALANIC ENGINEERING LIMITED

Owner dependency

76/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 50 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.)

Group structure

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

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Cts Dental Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ALANIC ENGINEERING LIMITED
This company · 01280887

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Cts Dental Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1976-10-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC86230 — Dental practice activities

Registered office

Three Arch Business Park
Three Arch Road
Redhill
Surrey
RH1 5SS
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-03
Last: 2026-03-20

Officers (3 active · 9 resigned)

LODGE, Jonathan Paul→
secretary · appointed 2004-08-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROWN, Yvonne Mahood→
director · ~62y · appointed 1999-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LODGE, Jonathan Paul→
director · ~64y · appointed 2003-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CHIVERS, Michael Francis→
secretary · appointed 1993-12-20 · resigned 2004-08-31
Resigned
HEESOM, Thomas Michael Anthony→
secretary · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned
AVERILL, Anthony Stuart→
director · ~80y · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned
CALDER, Christopher Menzies→
director · ~80y · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned
CHIVERS, Michael Francis→
director · ~74y · appointed 1993-12-20 · resigned 2004-08-31
Resigned
DE KOK, Frits David→
director · ~57y · appointed 2009-09-02 · resigned 2009-12-14
Resigned
DRAPER, Jane Michelle→
director · ~69y · appointed 1991-07-01 · resigned 2004-08-31
Resigned
HEESOM, Thomas Michael Anthony→
director · ~89y · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned
PROBERT, Natalie→
director · ~50y · appointed 2012-07-01 · resigned 2013-01-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property08/07/2021—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property08/07/2021—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
An omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement1 property08/02/201127/07/2021
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Single debenture1 property19/01/199403/08/2004
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Recent filings (127 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-26
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-28