CHANDOS RECORDS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01424451 · ltd · incorporated 1979-05-31
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 45.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Artistic creation
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 90). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 45.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 45.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 23/100 — 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
14 officers (4 active, 14 linked, 11 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
120 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
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 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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees01700

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-11
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  2. 2026-04-08
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    HEYMANN, Klaus Heinz appointed
    director
  3. 2026-04-08
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2026-02-27
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  5. 2025-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-12-03
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  8. 2024-11-23
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  9. 2024-11-22
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  10. 2024-11-21
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  11. 2024-11-21
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2024-11-21
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2024-11-21
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2024-11-21
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  15. 2024-11-21
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2024-02-29
    ➕
    ANDERSON, Anthony Daniel Ross appointed
    director
  17. 2024-02-29
    ➕
    LAGERQVIST, Håkan Lars appointed
    director
  18. 2024-02-29
    ➖
    YOUNG, Christopher William resigned
    secretary
  19. 2024-02-29
    ➖
    CHALLIS, Isabella Linda Margarete resigned
    director
  20. 2024-02-29
    ➖
    COUZENS, Ruth Mary resigned
    director
  21. 2024-02-29
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    YOUNG, Christopher William resigned
    director
  22. 2023-10-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  23. 2023-08-08
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  24. 2022-11-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  25. 2021-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  26. 2020-10-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  27. 2016-10-03
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    REVILL, Susan Wendy resigned
    secretary
  28. 2016-10-03
    ➕
    YOUNG, Christopher William appointed
    secretary
  29. 2016-10-03
    ➕
    CHALLIS, Isabella Linda Margarete appointed
    director
  30. 2016-10-03
    ➕
    COUZENS, Ruth Mary appointed
    director
  31. 2016-10-03
    ➖
    REVILL, Susan Wendy resigned
    director
  32. 2016-10-03
    ➕
    YOUNG, Christopher William appointed
    director
  33. 2015-04-17
    ➖
    COUZENS, Brian William resigned
    director
  34. 2011-10-19
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  35. 2005-08-18
    ➖
    COUZENS, Ilse Elizabeth resigned
    secretary
  36. 2005-08-18
    ➕
    REVILL, Susan Wendy appointed
    secretary
  37. 2005-08-18
    ➖
    COUZENS, Ilse Elizabeth resigned
    director
  38. 1996-06-30
    ➖
    COUZENS, Philip Kenneth William resigned
    director
  39. 1995-08-03
    ➕
    COUZENS, Philip Kenneth William appointed
    director
  40. 1981-05-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank LTD
  41. 1979-05-31
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CHANDOS RECORDS LIMITED

Owner dependency

55/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — succession pressure is live.

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 90 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.)

Group structure

K&T Rights International Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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K&T Rights International Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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CHANDOS RECORDS LIMITED
This company · 01424451

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
K&T Rights International Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control29/02/2024
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Takako Nishizaki Music Education Limitedceased 27/02/2026· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
  • Mr Ralph George John Couzensceased 29/02/2024· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control

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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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated1979-05-31
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

Chandos House, 1 Commerce Park
Commerce Way
Colchester
Essex
CO2 8HX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-05
Last: 2025-11-21

Officers (4 active · 10 resigned)

ANDERSON, Anthony Daniel Ross→
director · ~60y · appointed 2024-02-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COUZENS, Ralph George John→
director · ~69y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEYMANN, Klaus Heinz→
director · ~90y · appointed 2026-04-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAGERQVIST, Håkan Lars→
director · ~64y · appointed 2024-02-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COUZENS, Ilse Elizabeth→
secretary · resigned 2005-08-18
Resigned
REVILL, Susan Wendy→
secretary · appointed 2005-08-18 · resigned 2016-10-03
Resigned
YOUNG, Christopher William→
secretary · appointed 2016-10-03 · resigned 2024-02-29
Resigned
CHALLIS, Isabella Linda Margarete→
director · ~68y · appointed 2016-10-03 · resigned 2024-02-29
Resigned
COUZENS, Brian William→
director · ~93y · resigned 2015-04-17
Resigned
COUZENS, Ilse Elizabeth→
director · ~91y · resigned 2005-08-18
Resigned
COUZENS, Philip Kenneth William→
director · ~63y · appointed 1995-08-03 · resigned 1996-06-30
Resigned
COUZENS, Ruth Mary→
director · ~65y · appointed 2016-10-03 · resigned 2024-02-29
Resigned
REVILL, Susan Wendy→
director · ~71y · resigned 2016-10-03
Resigned
YOUNG, Christopher William→
director · ~70y · appointed 2016-10-03 · resigned 2024-02-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank LTD
Guarantee and debenture dated1 property26/05/198119/10/2011

Recent filings (120 total)

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-04-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-03
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2024-12-03
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-11-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-11-22
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-11-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-11-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-11-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-11-21
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-11-21