DELVAUX LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01471545 · ltd · incorporated 1980-01-07
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 26.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£303.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). 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
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 26.9y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 26.9 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: medium (77/100)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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
113 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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 102Positive net assets
Net assets £303,465
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£314k
Net Worth
£303k
Current Assets
£432k
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £314.0k | — |
| Current assets | £431.8k | — |
| Cash | £313.7k | — |
| Debtors | £100.1k | — |
| Net assets | £303.5k | — |
| Average employees | — | 300 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 signals 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
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-27📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2024-03-27📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2024-03-26📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2024-03-26📄capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-sharescapital · SH10
- 2024-03-25📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2024-03-21📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2024-03-13➕PESTANA, Richard Coelho appointeddirector
- 2024-01-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-01-04📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-31📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-12-15➖ATKINSON, Julian David resigneddirector
- 2011-09-09🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
- 1999-08-27🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1996-03-07➕ATKINSON, Natalie Margaret appointedsecretary
- 1996-03-07➕ATKINSON, Natalie Margaret appointeddirector
- 1996-03-07➖ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, Josephine Monique resignedsecretary
- 1996-03-07➖ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, George Stanley resigneddirector
- 1996-03-07➖ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, Josephine Monique resigneddirector
- 1980-01-07🏢Company incorporatedAs DELVAUX LIMITED
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
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
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ms Natalie Margaret Atkinson Individual · British · DOB 10/1964 · age 62 | 75–100% | 75–100% | 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
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6 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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1980-01-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46390 — Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
Registered office
Albany House
Claremont Lane
Esher
Surrey
KT10 9FQ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-04
Last: 2025-12-21
Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)
ATKINSON, Natalie Margaret→
Activesecretary · appointed 1996-03-07
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ATKINSON, Natalie Margaret→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 1996-03-07
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PESTANA, Richard Coelho→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2024-03-13
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ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, Josephine Monique→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 1996-03-07
ATKINSON, Julian David→
Resigneddirector · ~63y · resigned 2016-12-15
ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, George Stanley→
Resigneddirector · ~83y · resigned 1996-03-07
ROMBOUTS-HOWITT, Josephine Monique→
Resigneddirector · ~87y · resigned 1996-03-07
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | NatWest Group Rbs Invoice Finance Limited | All assets debenture | 1 property | 09/09/2011 | — | |
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Mortgage debenture | 1 property | 27/08/1999 | — |
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Recent filings (113 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-03-27
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-03-27
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2024-03-26
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2024-03-26
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-03-25
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-22