ALMETRON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01744029 · ltd · incorporated 1983-08-03
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 38.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
77/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 20130
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 38.4y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 38.4 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 (79/100)

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
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
114 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
77/100Strong
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
77
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£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees14001500

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-23
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  2. 2024-06-13
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  3. 2023-05-26
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  4. 2022-04-20
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  5. 2021-03-25
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  6. 2020-04-29
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  7. 2019-04-15
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  8. 2018-06-25
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  9. 2017-06-13
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  10. 2016-05-20
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  11. 2016-04-11
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  12. 2015-04-14
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  13. 2015-04-09
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  14. 2014-05-14
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  15. 2014-03-27
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  16. 2011-12-23
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    Charge satisfied #4
  17. 2011-12-23
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    Charge satisfied #3
  18. 2011-08-01
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    ROGERS, Georgina appointed
    secretary
  19. 2011-08-01
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    ROGERS, Georgina appointed
    director
  20. 2011-08-01
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    ROGERS, Ian appointed
    director
  21. 2011-08-01
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    TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret resigned
    secretary
  22. 2011-08-01
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    TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret resigned
    director
  23. 2011-08-01
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 2010-08-10
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    TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret appointed
    director
  25. 2010-08-06
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    TOMKINS, Brian Howard resigned
    director
  26. 2003-10-01
    ➕
    TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret appointed
    secretary
  27. 2003-09-30
    ➖
    TOMKINS, Brian Howard resigned
    secretary
  28. 2003-09-30
    ➖
    TAYLOR, Terrence John resigned
    director
  29. 1992-10-15
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Close Brothers Limited
  30. 1991-10-28
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Close Brothers Limited
  31. 1988-08-26
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  32. 1988-02-01
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  33. 1983-08-03
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    Company incorporated
    As ALMETRON LIMITED

Owner dependency

81/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 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

1 med ·
Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Georgina Rogers
Individual · British · DOB 07/1971 · age 55
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Ian Rogers
Individual · British · DOB 10/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1983-08-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC20130 — SIC 20130

Registered office

Unit 24 Abenbury Way
Wrexham Industrial Estate
Wrexham
LL13 9UZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-01
Last: 2026-03-18

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

ROGERS, Georgina→
secretary · appointed 2011-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROGERS, Georgina→
director · ~55y · appointed 2011-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROGERS, Ian→
director · ~70y · appointed 2011-08-01
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Active
TOMKINS, Brian Howard→
secretary · resigned 2003-09-30
Resigned
TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret→
secretary · appointed 2003-10-01 · resigned 2011-08-01
Resigned
TAYLOR, Terrence John→
director · ~74y · resigned 2003-09-30
Resigned
TOMKINS, Brian Howard→
director · ~83y · resigned 2010-08-06
Resigned
TOMKINS, Pauline Margaret→
director · ~83y · appointed 2010-08-10 · resigned 2011-08-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

5
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Fixed & floating charge1 property01/08/2011—
satisfied
Close Brothers
Close Brothers Limited
A credit agreement1 property15/10/199223/12/2011
satisfied
Close Brothers
Close Brothers Limited
A credit agreement1 property28/10/199123/12/2011
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Guarantee & debenture1 property26/08/1988—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property01/02/1988—
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Recent filings (114 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-04-15