AFRICA EXCLUSIVE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

02503049 · ltd · incorporated 1990-05-17

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 31.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Tour operator activities

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). 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 · oldest 31.3y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 31.3 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: 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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

14 officers (7 active, 14 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

138 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Average employees	1700	2000

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand

2026-05-16
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officers · CH01
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accounts · AA
2025-01-21
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accounts · AA
2025-01-15
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address · AD01
2024-01-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-05-19
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officers · CH01
2023-05-19
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2023-05-18
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officers · CH01
2023-05-18
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officers · CH01
2023-05-18
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officers · CH01
2023-05-18
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officers · CH01
2023-05-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-14
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-14
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officers · CH01
2021-06-14
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-05-04
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accounts · AA
2016-09-30
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BURDETT MUNNS, Laura Catherine appointed
director
2016-09-30
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LAUGHLIN, Katie Louise appointed
director
2016-09-30
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OXFORD, Michael Andrew appointed
director
2016-09-30
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SAWKINS, Martin Trevor appointed
director
2012-04-02
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2009-02-02
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BURDETT, John resigned
secretary
2001-09-30
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DUDLESTON, Barry resigned
director
1998-08-20
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BYGRAVES, Terence Malcolm resigned
director
1998-08-20
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RANKEN, Peter John resigned
director
1998-04-08
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DUDLESTON, Barry appointed
director
1996-10-01
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DUDLESTON, Barry resigned
director
1995-09-30
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BURDETT, John appointed
secretary
1995-09-30
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BURDETT, Susan Katharine resigned
secretary
1995-07-15
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HOFFMAN, Warwick appointed
director
1995-05-17
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BUSH, Lousie Wendy resigned
director
1995-01-23
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1993-03-05
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BYGRAVES, Terence Malcolm appointed
director
1990-05-17
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Company incorporated
As AFRICA EXCLUSIVE LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Warwick Hoffman Individual · British · DOB 07/1949 · age 77	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr John Burdett Individual · British · DOB 03/1955 · age 71	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% 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.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1990-05-17

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC79120 — Tour operator activities

Registered office

Office 12 & 13 10 Headlands

Kettering

NN15 7HP

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-30

Last: 2026-05-16