AYURVEDA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02167993 · ltd · incorporated 1987-09-22
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 37.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 79). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 37.8y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 37.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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
75
Lenders & charges
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
14 officers (2 active, 14 linked, 8 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 6 total, 6 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
151 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 accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees200400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (54 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-16
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  2. 2025-09-24
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  4. 2024-11-04
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  5. 2024-09-26
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  6. 2023-09-27
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  7. 2023-03-28
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  8. 2023-01-19
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  15. 2022-12-28
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  16. 2022-09-28
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  17. 2022-09-14
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  18. 2022-07-01
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    WHITLEY, David Forrester resigned
    director
  19. 2022-05-11
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  20. 2021-12-22
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  21. 2021-09-30
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  22. 2021-09-08
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    Charge satisfied #5
  23. 2021-06-18
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    JOHNSON, Richard Peter resigned
    director
  24. 2020-04-16
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    EVANS, Gwyndaf resigned
    director
  25. 2019-08-02
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  26. 2018-10-29
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    Charge satisfied #4
  27. 2013-11-06
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  28. 2013-10-31
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    Charge satisfied #2
  29. 2013-08-16
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    MASTERTON, David Niel resigned
    secretary
  30. 2012-09-10
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    BRIERLEY, Jai James resigned
    secretary
  31. 2012-09-10
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    MASTERTON, David Niel appointed
    secretary
  32. 2010-08-25
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    BRIERLEY, Jai James appointed
    secretary
  33. 2010-08-25
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    KAPLAN, Eric Stanley resigned
    secretary
  34. 2007-09-26
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    RAE, David appointed
    director
  35. 2007-09-26
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    WARBURTON, Peter Nigel, Dr appointed
    director
  36. 2007-09-26
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    JOHNSON, Richard Peter resigned
    secretary
  37. 2007-09-26
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    KAPLAN, Eric Stanley appointed
    secretary
  38. 2007-09-26
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    CLEMENTS, William Geoffrey, Dr resigned
    director
  39. 2007-09-26
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    EVANS, Gwyndaf appointed
    director
  40. 2007-09-26
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    WHITLEY, David Forrester appointed
    director
  41. 2002-01-12
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    CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter resigned
    secretary
  42. 2002-01-12
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    JOHNSON, Richard Peter appointed
    secretary
  43. 2002-01-12
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    CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter resigned
    director
  44. 1999-12-30
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    CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter appointed
    secretary
  45. 1999-12-20
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    GODFREY, Hugh resigned
    secretary
  46. 1998-12-01
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    LINES, Philip David Myott resigned
    director
  47. 1998-10-15
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    CLEMENTS, William Geoffrey, Dr appointed
    director
  48. 1998-10-15
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    JOHNSON, Richard Peter appointed
    director
  49. 1996-12-19
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    CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter appointed
    director
  50. 1995-07-10
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
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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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

4 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75% · fragmented
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ajay Prakash Shrivastava
Individual · Indian · DOB 05/1955 · age 71
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest06/04/2016
Mr Gwyndaf Evans
Individual · British · DOB 07/1948 · age 78
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest06/04/2016
David Emrys Hughes
Individual · British · DOB 10/1954 · age 72
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest06/04/2016
Mr David Clark Rae
Individual · British · DOB 07/1947 · age 79
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Jane Jemima Pitmanceased 30/06/2024· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest
  • William Graham Orrceased 30/04/2023· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · trust interest

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-09-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46390 — Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

Registered office

Beacon House
Willow Walk
Skelmersdale
Lancashire
WN8 6UR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-27
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-15
Last: 2025-10-01

Officers (2 active · 12 resigned)

RAE, David→
director · ~79y · appointed 2007-09-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WARBURTON, Peter Nigel, Dr→
director · ~76y · appointed 2007-09-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIERLEY, Jai James→
secretary · appointed 2010-08-25 · resigned 2012-09-10
Resigned
CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter→
secretary · appointed 1999-12-30 · resigned 2002-01-12
Resigned
GODFREY, Hugh→
secretary · resigned 1999-12-20
Resigned
JOHNSON, Richard Peter→
secretary · appointed 2002-01-12 · resigned 2007-09-26
Resigned
KAPLAN, Eric Stanley→
secretary · appointed 2007-09-26 · resigned 2010-08-25
Resigned
MASTERTON, David Niel→
secretary · appointed 2012-09-10 · resigned 2013-08-16
Resigned
CHALMERS, Francis Carpenter→
director · ~74y · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 2002-01-12
Resigned
CLEMENTS, William Geoffrey, Dr→
director · ~78y · appointed 1998-10-15 · resigned 2007-09-26
Resigned
EVANS, Gwyndaf→
director · ~78y · appointed 2007-09-26 · resigned 2020-04-16
Resigned
JOHNSON, Richard Peter→
director · ~74y · appointed 1998-10-15 · resigned 2021-06-18
Resigned
LINES, Philip David Myott→
director · ~75y · resigned 1998-12-01
Resigned
WHITLEY, David Forrester→
director · ~84y · appointed 2007-09-26 · resigned 2022-07-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

5
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property02/08/201908/09/2021
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property06/11/201329/10/2018
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property10/07/1995—
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property17/04/199031/10/2013
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Charge over credit balances1 property08/07/198812/11/1988
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Recent filings (151 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-02
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-09-24
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-01-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-01-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-01-19
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
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