A.A. HENTON & SON (STEEL FABRICATIONS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01424002 · ltd · incorporated 1979-05-30
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 38.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£856.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 38.5y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 38.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
99 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £856,476
Cash YoY
+694%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£370k
↑ 694% YoY
Net Worth
£856k
↑ 1.0% YoY
Current Assets
£1.1m
↑ 59% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£217k£435k£652k£869k£1.1mOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£900.5k£896.2k
Current assets£1.09M£684.3k
Cash£369.8k£46.6k
Debtors£444.0k£460.3k
Net assets£856.5k£847.8k

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.

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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 (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-16
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  2. 2025-07-28
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  3. 2024-07-30
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  4. 2023-05-05
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  5. 2023-03-31
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    HENTON, Aaron George Terrance appointed
    director
  6. 2023-03-31
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    HENTON, Emily Harriet appointed
    director
  7. 2023-03-31
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2022-07-25
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  9. 2021-07-29
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  10. 2020-10-28
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  11. 2019-06-28
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  12. 2018-05-29
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  13. 2017-06-06
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  14. 2016-07-29
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  15. 2015-12-18
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  16. 2015-07-15
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  17. 2015-01-08
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    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2014-09-22
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    HENTON, Beatrice Thelma resigned
    secretary
  19. 2014-09-22
    ➖
    HENTON, Beatrice Thelma resigned
    director
  20. 2010-02-09
    ➕
    HENTON, Karen Lesley appointed
    director
  21. 2009-03-25
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  22. 2003-11-28
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  23. 1987-11-03
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  24. 1979-05-30
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    Company incorporated
    As A.A. HENTON & SON (STEEL FABRICATIONS) LIMITED

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HENTON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

43/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — HENTON, Aaron George Terrance (same surname) appointed 2023-03-31. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 47 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

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

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Jenner Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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A.A. HENTON & SON (STEEL FABRICATIONS) LIMITED
This company · 01424002

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
Jenner 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.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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8 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
Incorporated1979-05-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC28990 — SIC 28990

Registered office

Worthington Farm
Norton-Juxta
Twycross,Atherstone,
Warwickshire.
CV9 3QB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

HENTON, Aaron George Terrance→
director · ~32y · appointed 2023-03-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HENTON, Arthur William→
director · ~77y
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Active
HENTON, Emily Harriet→
director · ~35y · appointed 2023-03-31
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Active
HENTON, Karen Lesley→
director · ~59y · appointed 2010-02-09
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Active
HENTON, Beatrice Thelma→
secretary · resigned 2014-09-22
Resigned
HENTON, Beatrice Thelma→
director · ~101y · resigned 2014-09-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property25/03/2009—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property28/11/2003—
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Fixed and floating charge1 property03/11/1987—
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Recent filings (99 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-15
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-05
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-13