DILBEY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

02073430 · ltd · incorporated 1986-11-12

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Nov 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Residents property management

Sector: Activities of households

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

15 officers (6 active, 15 linked, 14 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

126 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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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	2025-11-30	2024-11-30
Average employees	0	0

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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2025-07-03
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2025-06-12
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2024-08-28
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2024-08-27
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LAUKKANEN, Kare Kristian resigned
director
2024-02-19
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2023-01-10
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2022-03-20
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2022-03-18
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BRADY, Peter appointed
director
2022-01-05
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2021-01-11
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2020-01-15
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2019-01-07
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2018-11-22
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2018-11-22
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2018-11-22
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2018-11-22
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2018-11-22
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2017-08-15
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SADHRA, Sandeep appointed
director
2017-03-02
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LAYNG, Alan resigned
director
2017-02-10
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BUTCHER, Andrew Charles appointed
director
2017-02-10
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LAUKKANEN, Kare Kristian appointed
director
2008-09-30
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SMITH, Peter Hardcastle resigned
director
2006-05-26
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LAYNG, Alan appointed
director
2004-06-21
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BROOKS, Dorothy appointed
director
2004-06-21
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KERR, Julia Laureen Barbara resigned
director
2002-08-05
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SMITH, Peter Hardcastle appointed
director
2002-03-27
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KERR, Julia Laureen Barbara appointed
director
2002-03-26
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WALLS, Christopher John Barry resigned
director
2000-01-10
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POND, Edward Charles resigned
director
1999-10-15
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UNDERHILL, Peter Sydney resigned
director
1999-03-28
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SHARPLES, Norwyn resigned
director
1999-02-05
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LEACH, Gregory David Charles resigned
director
1986-11-12
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Company incorporated
As DILBEY LIMITED

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.

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 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1986-11-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

The Courtyard Acton Castle

Rosudgeon

Penzance

Cornwall

TR20 9PF

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-08-31

Last made up to: 2025-11-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-01

Last: 2025-06-17