A. T. GRAPHICS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01975770 · ltd · incorporated 1986-01-09
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 36.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 18130
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). 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
2 live charges · oldest 36.1y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.1 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 (80/100)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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
116 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 | 2025-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 2100 | 2500 |
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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-10-17📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2025-04-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-27📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-06-27📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-06-27📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2024-06-27📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-04-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-15📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-04-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-04-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-04-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-13📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2010-02-01➕TIPPING, James Edward appointeddirector
- 2010-02-01➕TIPPING, Robert appointeddirector
- 1990-07-31🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1990-06-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1986-01-09🏢Company incorporatedAs A. T. GRAPHICS 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
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
83/100
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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- 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
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 Arthur George James Tipping Individual · British · DOB 05/1949 · age 77 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1986-01-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC18130 — SIC 18130
Registered office
4 Milnyard Square
Bakewell Road
Orton Southgate
Peterborough
PE2 6GX
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-24
Last: 2025-10-10
Officers (5 active · 0 resigned)
Active
Active
TIPPING, James Edward→
Activedirector · ~55y · appointed 2010-02-01
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Active
TIPPING, Robert→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2010-02-01
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 31/07/1990 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 18/06/1990 | — |
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Recent filings (116 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-27
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2025-10-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-27
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-06-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-12