ATTENBOROUGH DOORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02033963 · ltd · incorporated 1986-07-04
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 35.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Feb 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 35.8y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.8 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 (72/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
113 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

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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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 · FRS 102
Metric2024-02-29
Average employees4200

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-22
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  2. 2025-05-13
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  3. 2025-04-09
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    WHORLEY, Penelope Jane resigned
    director
  4. 2024-10-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-09-12
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-06-15
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  7. 2022-06-29
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  8. 2022-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-09-23
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-06-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
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  11. 2019-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
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  12. 2018-06-21
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  13. 2018-06-19
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  14. 2018-06-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  15. 2018-06-19
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  16. 2017-08-04
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2001-06-12
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    NIGHTINGALE, Andrew appointed
    director
  18. 1995-03-09
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    WHORLEY, Edward Clarence resigned
    director
  19. 1995-03-09
    ➖
    WHORLEY, Gillian resigned
    director
  20. 1990-09-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: T.S.B. Bank PLC.
  21. 1986-07-04
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    Company incorporated
    As ATTENBOROUGH DOORS LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 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

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

Group structure

Attenborough Industrial Doors Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Attenborough Industrial Doors Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ATTENBOROUGH DOORS LIMITED
This company · 02033963

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Attenborough Industrial Doors Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Andrew Nightingaleceased 14/06/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Martin Whorleyceased 06/04/2016· 50-75% shares
  • Penelope Jane Whorleyceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated1986-07-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Merlin Way
Quarry Hill Industrial Estate
Ilkeston
Derbyshire
DE7 4RA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-29
Last: 2026-06-15

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

WHORLEY, Martin→
secretary
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Active
NIGHTINGALE, Andrew→
director · ~64y · appointed 2001-06-12
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Active
WHORLEY, Martin→
director · ~65y
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Active
WHORLEY, Edward Clarence→
director · ~91y · resigned 1995-03-09
Resigned
WHORLEY, Gillian→
director · ~91y · resigned 1995-03-09
Resigned
WHORLEY, Penelope Jane→
director · ~66y · resigned 2025-04-09
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
T.S.B. Bank .
T.S.B. Bank PLC.
Mortgage debenture1 property10/09/1990—
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Recent filings (113 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-05-22
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-10-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-09-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-29
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-29
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-06-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-30