ABERGAVENNY & NEWPORT MARKET AUCTIONEERS LTD

🌳Matureactive

02227449 · ltd · incorporated 1988-03-07

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 24.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.3y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 24.3 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: 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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

125 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31
Average employees	23	2300

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

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2 signals 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 mortgage

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2026-04-09
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mortgage · MR01
2026-04-07
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Oxbury Bank PLC
2026-02-17
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accounts · AA
2024-12-01
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accounts · AA
2024-02-28
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accounts · AA
2022-12-20
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accounts · AA
2021-12-07
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accounts · AA
2020-12-22
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accounts · AA
2020-09-15
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2020-09-15
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2020-09-15
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2020-09-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2020-02-27
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accounts · AA
2019-02-28
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accounts · AA
2018-02-27
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accounts · AA
2017-02-28
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accounts · AA
2014-01-24
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LEWIS, John Alan resigned
director
2011-04-05
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SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn appointed
secretary
2011-04-05
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DAVIES, Michael Owen appointed
director
2011-04-05
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TRUMPER, Lyndon Harold appointed
director
2011-04-05
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SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn resigned
secretary
2011-04-05
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CHADWICK, William Richard Morgan resigned
director
2011-04-05
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GAMES, John Stanley resigned
director
2011-04-05
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LEWIS, John Alan appointed
director
2011-04-05
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SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn resigned
director
2002-03-07
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1997-07-31
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SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn appointed
secretary
1997-03-04
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SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn resigned
secretary
1997-03-04
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CHADWICK, William Richard Morgan appointed
director
1997-03-04
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WALKER, Albert Milton resigned
director
1988-03-07
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Company incorporated
As ABERGAVENNY & NEWPORT MARKET AUCTIONEERS LTD

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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 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 15 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Trumper Holdings Limitede

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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Newlands Auction Services Llp

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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ABERGAVENNY & NEWPORT MARKET AUCTIONEERS LTD

This company · 02227449

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Trumper Holdings Limitede Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/02/2019
Newlands Auction Services Llp Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/02/2019

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

J Stracker Chadwick & Sons Ltdceased 06/02/2019· 25-50% shares
Newland Rennie Wilkins Llpceased 06/02/2019· 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

Incorporated1988-03-07

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC96090 — Other service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Dorrell Oliver Ltd Linden House

Monk Street

Abergavenny

Monmouthshire

NP7 5NF

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-14

Last: 2025-07-31

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn→

secretary · appointed 2011-04-05

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

DAVIES, Michael Owen→

director · ~70y · appointed 2011-04-05

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

TRUMPER, Lyndon Harold→

director · ~59y · appointed 2011-04-05

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn→

secretary · appointed 1997-07-31 · resigned 2011-04-05

Resigned

SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn→

secretary · resigned 1997-03-04

Resigned

CHADWICK, William Richard Morgan→

director · ~79y · appointed 1997-03-04 · resigned 2011-04-05

Resigned

GAMES, John Stanley→

director · ~87y · resigned 2011-04-05

Resigned

LEWIS, John Alan→

director · ~70y · appointed 2011-04-05 · resigned 2014-01-24

Resigned

SPENCER, Albert Keith Gladwyn→

director · ~72y · resigned 2011-04-05

Resigned

WALKER, Albert Milton→

director · ~98y · resigned 1997-03-04

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Oxbury Bank Oxbury Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	07/04/2026	—
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	07/03/2002	—

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