A.A.A. SUPPLY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01873788 · ltd · incorporated 1984-12-21

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 36.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£2.71M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) n.e.c.

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). 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 36.2y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 36.2 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: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

115 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £2,707,485

Cash YoY

+2%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.8m

↑ 1.7% YoY

Net Worth

£2.7m

↑ 2.7% YoY

Current Assets

£2.0m

~ YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£2.72M	£2.65M
Current assets	£2.03M	£2.05M
Cash	£1.80M	£1.77M
Debtors	£150.9k	£204.4k
Net assets	£2.71M	£2.64M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2025-07-07
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2025-04-25
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2025-04-25
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resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-04-16
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capital · SH01
2024-06-24
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accounts · AA
2023-08-31
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-08-31
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-07-21
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accounts · AA
2022-09-01
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accounts · AA
2021-09-07
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accounts · AA
2020-08-03
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accounts · AA
2019-10-08
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accounts · AA
2018-09-12
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accounts · AA
2017-12-21
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2016-06-24
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accounts · AA
2001-03-02
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BROWN, Irene resigned
director
1999-01-01
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HITCHEN, John Joseph resigned
director
1996-01-01
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GRIFFIN, Cheryl appointed
director
1996-01-01
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MCCOMISH, Christine appointed
director
1990-03-21
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1984-12-21
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Company incorporated
As A.A.A. SUPPLY LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

J J Hitchen Discretionary Settlement No 2 holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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J J Hitchen Discretionary Settlement No 2

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control

significant stake

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A.A.A. SUPPLY LIMITED

This company · 01873788

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Barry James Hitchen Individual · British · DOB 07/1955 · age 71	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016
J J Hitchen Discretionary Settlement No 2 Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · trust interest	31/08/2023

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

Incorporated1984-12-21

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC46499 — Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) n.e.c.

Registered office

Hanover Buildings

11-13 Hanover Street

Liverpool

Merseyside

L1 3DN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-25

Last: 2025-08-11