AMBASSADOR COOKED MEATS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01809014 · ltd · incorporated 1984-04-16
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 41.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.48M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10120
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 80). 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
1 live charge · oldest 41.6y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 41.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
101 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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £1,480,936
Cash YoY
-6%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£1.2m
↓ 6.0% YoY
Net Worth
£1.5m
↑ 3.9% YoY
Current Assets
£1.7m
↓ 3.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.49M | £1.44M |
| Current assets | £1.72M | £1.78M |
| Cash | £1.24M | £1.32M |
| Debtors | £336.0k | £302.4k |
| Net assets | £1.48M | £1.42M |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-16📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-10-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-10-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-06-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-16📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-05-16📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-08-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-10📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2024-04-23📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-04-23📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2024-02-22➖LEBRETON, Andrew resigneddirector
- 2023-08-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-17📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-05-16📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-05-16📄withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC09
- 2022-08-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-19📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2022-05-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-10-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-08-26📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2020-08-06📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2020-07-20➕LEBRETON, Matthew appointeddirector
- 2020-07-20➕LEBRETON, Andrew appointeddirector
- 1984-09-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 1984-04-16🏢Company incorporatedAs AMBASSADOR COOKED MEATS LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
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.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
76/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 42 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Matthew Lebreton Individual · British · DOB 02/1973 · age 53 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 01/10/2024 |
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mrs Suzanne Lebretonceased 16/04/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Mr Roy Lebretonceased 01/10/2024· 25-50% shares
- Mr Andrew Lebretonceased 22/02/2024· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1984-04-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10120 — SIC 10120
Registered office
13 Noble Square
Burnt Mills Industrial Estate
Basildon
Essex
SS13 1LS
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-26
Last: 2025-05-12
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
Active
Active
LEBRETON, Matthew→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2020-07-20
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LEBRETON, Andrew→
Resigneddirector · ~50y · appointed 2020-07-20 · resigned 2024-02-22
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 18/09/1984 | — |
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Recent filings (101 total)
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-04-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-06-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-05-16
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-05-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-10
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-06-10
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-04-23
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-08-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-05-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-05-16