ALRAD INSTRUMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02438982 · ltd · incorporated 1989-11-02
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 35.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26512
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 46520SIC 46520
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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

1 live charge · oldest 35.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.0 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 (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
98 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Average employees11001000

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-04-17
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  3. 2024-05-30
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  4. 2023-04-17
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  5. 2022-03-23
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  6. 2021-03-17
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  7. 2020-03-13
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  8. 2019-04-29
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  9. 2018-11-06
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  10. 2018-05-24
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  11. 2017-06-21
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  12. 2016-04-20
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  13. 2015-11-02
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  14. 2015-03-26
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  15. 2014-11-04
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  16. 2010-01-01
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    ALDERTON, Ian Robert James resigned
    secretary
  17. 2010-01-01
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    ALDERTON, Doreen Nellie resigned
    director
  18. 2010-01-01
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    ALDERTON, Douglas Alan resigned
    director
  19. 2005-04-05
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    ALDERTON, Ian Robert James appointed
    secretary
  20. 2005-04-05
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    CASS, Gillian Elizabeth resigned
    secretary
  21. 2004-07-30
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    SMITH, Godfrey Thomas resigned
    director
  22. 1997-01-01
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    ALDERTON, Graham Peter John appointed
    director
  23. 1997-01-01
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    CASS, Gillian Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  24. 1996-12-31
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    ALDERTON, Doreen Nellie resigned
    secretary
  25. 1992-12-01
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    ALDERTON, Ian Robert James appointed
    director
  26. 1992-12-01
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    SMITH, Godfrey Thomas appointed
    director
  27. 1991-06-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 1989-11-02
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    Company incorporated
    As ALRAD INSTRUMENTS 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 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 66. 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 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 37 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

Alchem Holdings Ltd. is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Alchem Holdings Ltd.
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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ALRAD INSTRUMENTS LIMITED
This company · 02438982

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
Alchem Holdings Ltd.
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · firm interest06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1989-11-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC26512 — SIC 26512

Registered office

Knoll House
Knoll Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU15 3SY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-16
Last: 2025-11-02

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

ALDERTON, Graham Peter John→
director · ~59y · appointed 1997-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALDERTON, Ian Robert James→
director · ~66y · appointed 1992-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALDERTON, Doreen Nellie→
secretary · resigned 1996-12-31
Resigned
ALDERTON, Ian Robert James→
secretary · appointed 2005-04-05 · resigned 2010-01-01
Resigned
CASS, Gillian Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 1997-01-01 · resigned 2005-04-05
Resigned
ALDERTON, Doreen Nellie→
director · ~91y · resigned 2010-01-01
Resigned
ALDERTON, Douglas Alan→
director · ~92y · resigned 2010-01-01
Resigned
SMITH, Godfrey Thomas→
director · ~80y · appointed 1992-12-01 · resigned 2004-07-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property18/06/1991—
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Recent filings (98 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-17
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-29