ASHVIN METALS (MIDLANDS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01707722 · ltd · incorporated 1983-03-18
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 40.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.60M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46770
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). 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 40.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 40.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
132 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,603,524
Cash YoY
+515%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£68k
↑ 515% YoY
Net Worth
£1.6m
↑ 3.6% YoY
Current Assets
£2.6m
↑ 46% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£516k£1.0m£1.5m£2.1m£2.6mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.88M£2.01M
Current assets£2.58M£1.77M
Cash£68.0k£11.1k
Debtors£1.29M£1.00M
Net assets£1.60M£1.55M

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 (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-09-26
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  3. 2023-08-11
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-12
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  5. 2023-06-12
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  6. 2022-12-23
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    address · AD01
  7. 2022-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-03-02
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  10. 2020-11-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-03-12
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    officers · AP01
  12. 2020-03-11
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  13. 2020-03-11
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  16. 2020-03-11
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  17. 2020-03-11
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  18. 2020-03-10
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    DIXON, Andrew Barrie appointed
    director
  19. 2020-03-10
    ➕
    HOWARTH, Jonathan appointed
    director
  20. 2020-03-10
    ➕
    SWINSON, Iain Daniel appointed
    director
  21. 2020-03-10
    ➖
    STYLER, Josephine Ann resigned
    secretary
  22. 2020-03-10
    ➖
    STYLER, Adam Robert Joseph resigned
    director
  23. 2020-03-10
    ➖
    STYLER, Josephine Ann resigned
    director
  24. 2020-03-10
    ➖
    STYLER, Robert Alfred Edmund resigned
    director
  25. 2020-03-04
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  26. 2020-03-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  27. 2020-01-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  28. 1997-08-08
    ➕
    STYLER, Adam Robert Joseph appointed
    director
  29. 1994-10-31
    ➕
    STYLER, Josephine Ann appointed
    secretary
  30. 1994-10-31
    ➖
    FLINTDALE LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  31. 1986-06-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  32. 1983-03-18
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ASHVIN METALS (MIDLANDS) LIMITED

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — 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 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

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

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Aml Newco Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ASHVIN METALS (MIDLANDS) LIMITED
This company · 01707722

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
Aml Newco Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control27/02/2023
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Cel Engineering Holdings Limitedceased 27/02/2023· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting
  • Securehold Holdings Limitedceased 17/12/2019· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting
  • Mr Adam Robert Joseph Stylerceased 17/12/2019· significant influence

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1983-03-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46770 — SIC 46770

Registered office

C/O Ashvin Metals Ltd, Kings Court Beacon Road
Poulton Industrial Estate
Poulton-Le-Fylde
Lancashire
FY6 8JE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-03
Last: 2025-12-20

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

DIXON, Andrew Barrie→
director · ~48y · appointed 2020-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOWARTH, Jonathan→
director · ~66y · appointed 2020-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SWINSON, Iain Daniel→
director · ~55y · appointed 2020-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STYLER, Josephine Ann→
secretary · appointed 1994-10-31 · resigned 2020-03-10
Resigned
FLINTDALE LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · resigned 1994-10-31
Resigned
STYLER, Adam Robert Joseph→
director · ~60y · appointed 1997-08-08 · resigned 2020-03-10
Resigned
STYLER, Josephine Ann→
director · ~89y · resigned 2020-03-10
Resigned
STYLER, Robert Alfred Edmund→
director · ~89y · resigned 2020-03-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Debenture1 property30/06/198604/03/2020

Recent filings (132 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-11
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-06-12
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-06-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-10
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-01