ALLGLASS & GLAZING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02494668 · ltd · incorporated 1990-04-20
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 9.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Glazing
Sector: Construction
Investor take
PursueActive 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 (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 9.6y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 9.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
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
116 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 accountsCash
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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 | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1700 | 1700 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
4 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-21📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-01-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-29📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-04-20➕PATTEMORE, Hayley appointeddirector
- 2022-04-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-01-29📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2018-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-21📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-12-08🔒Charge registered #2Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2016-11-08🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2013-05-08➖MESSER, Carly Eve resignedsecretary
- 2003-12-09➕MESSER, Carly Eve appointedsecretary
- 2003-12-09➖MESSER, Hayley Dawn resignedsecretary
- 2000-10-14➕MESSER, Lesley Patricia appointeddirector
- 2000-10-14➕MESSER, Hayley Dawn appointedsecretary
- 2000-10-14➖MESSER, Lesley Patricia resignedsecretary
- 2000-10-14➖MESSER, Malcolm John resigneddirector
- 1990-04-20🏢Company incorporatedAs ALLGLASS & GLAZING LIMITED
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
96/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mrs Lesley Patricia Messer Individual · British · DOB 12/1952 · age 74 | 25–50% | 75–100% | 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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| A N HEATING LIMITED→ 06728930 · est 2008 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 17y | — | — |
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| AIS ELECTRICAL LIMITED→ 16364148 · est 2025 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
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| ALBRACONSTRUCTION LTD→ 16329336 · est 2025 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
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| ALL ASPECTS GLASS AND GLAZING LIMITED→ 14274756 · est 2022 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 3y | — | — |
| ALL BUILDING MATTERS LIMITED→ 06024716 · est 2006 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 19y | — | — |
| ALL DRAINAGE SERVICES LTD→ 07865687 · est 2011 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 14y | — | — |
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-04-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43342 — Glazing
Registered office
C/O Milsted Langdon Llp Motivo House
Alvington
Yeovil
Somerset
BA20 2FG
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-24
Last: 2026-01-10
Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)
MESSER, Lesley Patricia→
Activedirector · ~74y · appointed 2000-10-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
PATTEMORE, Hayley→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2022-04-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MESSER, Carly Eve→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2003-12-09 · resigned 2013-05-08
MESSER, Hayley Dawn→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2000-10-14 · resigned 2003-12-09
MESSER, Lesley Patricia→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2000-10-14
MESSER, Malcolm John→
Resigneddirector · ~75y · resigned 2000-10-14
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 08/12/2016 | — | |
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 08/11/2016 | — |
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Recent filings (116 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-04-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-04