DRAINROD LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01346411 · ltd · incorporated 1977-12-30
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 26.8y 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
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 37000
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). 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 26.8y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 26.8 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 (78/100)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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 10 | 900 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-07-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-07-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-07-01📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-07-01📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-07-01📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-07-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-07-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-08-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-03-15📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2019-01-02📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2019-01-01➕JAMES, Tyler Sion appointeddirector
- 2018-10-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 1999-10-04🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1977-12-30🏢Company incorporatedAs DRAINROD LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
70/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 49 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Ms Louise James Individual · British · DOB 10/1953 · age 73 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr David Lyndon James Individual · British · DOB 03/1950 · age 76 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Tyler Sion James Individual · British · DOB 07/1990 · age 36 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 01/01/2019 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1977-12-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC37000 — SIC 37000
Registered office
James House
Wern Trading Estate, Rogerstone
Newport
Gwent
NP10 9FQ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-29
Last: 2026-03-15
Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
Active
Active
Active
JAMES, Tyler Sion→
Activedirector · ~36y · appointed 2019-01-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Mortgage debenture | 1 property | 04/10/1999 | — |
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Recent filings (95 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-02
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-06