A. & E. PLASTIC FABRICATIONS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01974925 · ltd · incorporated 1986-01-03
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 31.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 22290
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). 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 31.9y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 31.9 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 (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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
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
107 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-01-31 | 2024-01-31 |
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Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal 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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2025-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-07📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-07📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2023-11-07📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-04-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-03-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-30📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2017-09-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2017-07-17➕CARNEY, Rosanna appointeddirector
- 2017-07-17📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2012-01-01➖CARNEY, Rosanna resignedsecretary
- 2003-03-31➕CARNEY, Rosanna appointedsecretary
- 2002-09-01➕CARNEY, Rosanna appointedsecretary
- 2002-07-31➖FARRALL, Mark Edward resignedsecretary
- 2002-07-31➖FARRALL, Mark Edward resigneddirector
- 2001-04-10➕FARRALL, Mark Edward appointedsecretary
- 2000-01-31➖FARRALL, Sandra June resignedsecretary
- 2000-01-31➖FARRALL, Alan Edward resigneddirector
- 2000-01-31➖FARRALL, Sandra June resigneddirector
- 1998-10-28➕CARNEY, Dominic appointeddirector
- 1998-10-28➖FARRALL, Maxwell resigneddirector
- 1994-07-15🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1986-01-03🏢Company incorporatedAs A. & E. PLASTIC FABRICATIONS LIMITED
Owner dependency
84/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
76/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 40 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Dominic Carney Individual · British · DOB 10/1968 · age 58 | 50–75% | — | 50-75% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Rosanna Carney Individual · British · DOB 10/1975 · age 51 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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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
Incorporated1986-01-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC22290 — SIC 22290
Registered office
20 Honing Drive
Southwell
NG25 0LB
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-28
Last: 2025-08-14
Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)
Active
CARNEY, Dominic→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 1998-10-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CARNEY, Rosanna→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2017-07-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CARNEY, Rosanna→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2003-03-31 · resigned 2012-01-01
FARRALL, Mark Edward→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2001-04-10 · resigned 2002-07-31
FARRALL, Sandra June→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2000-01-31
FARRALL, Alan Edward→
Resigneddirector · ~84y · resigned 2000-01-31
FARRALL, Mark Edward→
Resigneddirector · ~64y · resigned 2002-07-31
FARRALL, Maxwell→
Resigneddirector · ~58y · resigned 1998-10-28
FARRALL, Sandra June→
Resigneddirector · ~82y · resigned 2000-01-31
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 15/07/1994 | — |
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Recent filings (107 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-10-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-10-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-07
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-11-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-11-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-04-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-07-19