ABBEYCHEM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02243621 · ltd · incorporated 1988-04-13
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 12.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£3.27M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 20590
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 46750SIC 46750
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 12.2y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
118 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,273,687

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£426k
Net Worth
£3.3m
Current Assets
£3.4m
Current Liabilities
—
£0£684k£1.4m£2.1m£2.7m£3.4mApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-052024-04-05
Total assets£3.50M—
Current assets£3.42M—
Cash£426.3k—
Debtors£1.78M—
Net assets£3.27M—
Average employees—200

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-03-10
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    officers · AP01
  3. 2026-02-21
    ➕
    ANITA, Carmen Liliana appointed
    director
  4. 2026-02-21
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    ANITA, Carmen Liliana resigned
    director
  5. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2025-01-21
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-03-26
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  8. 2023-01-17
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-01-12
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  10. 2021-03-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-10-17
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-06-14
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    address · AD01
  13. 2018-11-12
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-09-25
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-01-04
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-12-06
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    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2016-11-18
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  18. 2014-03-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  19. 2007-01-08
    ➖
    WEIHSER, Jennifer Rosemary resigned
    secretary
  20. 2007-01-08
    ➖
    WEIHSER, Klaus resigned
    director
  21. 2006-11-20
    ➕
    BONHAM, Tyson Mark Alexander appointed
    secretary
  22. 2006-11-20
    ➕
    BONHAM, Paul Arthur Alexander appointed
    director
  23. 2006-11-20
    ➕
    BONHAM, Tyson Mark Alexander appointed
    director
  24. 1997-12-27
    ➕
    WEIHSER, Jennifer Rosemary appointed
    secretary
  25. 1997-12-06
    ➖
    WEIHSER, Klaus resigned
    secretary
  26. 1995-12-04
    ➖
    BURTON, John William resigned
    director
  27. 1995-02-28
    ➖
    BRADLEY, Robert resigned
    director
  28. 1988-04-13
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ABBEYCHEM LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 74 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 20 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

Abbey Waste Control Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Abbey Waste Control Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ABBEYCHEM LIMITED
This company · 02243621

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
Abbey Waste Control Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1988-04-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC20590 — SIC 20590

Registered office

T/A Abbey Chemicals
245 Southtown Road
Great Yarmouth
NR31 0JJ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-05
Last made up to: 2025-04-05
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-19
Last: 2026-04-05

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

BONHAM, Tyson Mark Alexander→
secretary · appointed 2006-11-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BONHAM, Paul Arthur Alexander→
director · ~74y · appointed 2006-11-20
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Active
BONHAM, Tyson Mark Alexander→
director · ~41y · appointed 2006-11-20
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Active
WEIHSER, Jennifer Rosemary→
secretary · appointed 1997-12-27 · resigned 2007-01-08
Resigned
WEIHSER, Klaus→
secretary · resigned 1997-12-06
Resigned
ANITA, Carmen Liliana→
director · ~61y · appointed 2026-02-21 · resigned 2026-02-21
Resigned
BRADLEY, Robert→
director · ~78y · resigned 1995-02-28
Resigned
BURTON, John William→
director · ~81y · resigned 1995-12-04
Resigned
WEIHSER, Klaus→
director · ~85y · resigned 2007-01-08
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property18/11/2016—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property10/03/2014—
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Recent filings (118 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-29