CHADWAY LTD

🌳Matureactive
02689491 · ltd · incorporated 1992-02-20
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Business and domestic software development
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 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
80 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Average employees3200

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-08
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  2. 2024-10-31
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  3. 2023-10-30
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  4. 2022-10-27
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  5. 2021-10-31
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  6. 2020-12-08
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  7. 2019-10-31
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  8. 2019-02-25
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  9. 2019-02-04
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  10. 2019-02-04
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  11. 2019-01-30
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  12. 2018-10-30
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  13. 2018-01-01
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    DAY, Richard Henry resigned
    director
  14. 2017-11-30
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  15. 2016-10-31
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  16. 2010-01-01
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    DAY, Lindsey appointed
    director
  17. 1992-02-27
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    DAY, Peter Richard appointed
    secretary
  18. 1992-02-27
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    DAY, Peter Richard appointed
    director
  19. 1992-02-27
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    KCCF LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  20. 1992-02-27
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    DAY, Richard Henry appointed
    director
  21. 1992-02-27
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    AARON AND AARON ASSOCIATES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 1992-02-20
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    Company incorporated
    As CHADWAY LTD
  23. 1992-02-20
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    KCCF LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1992-02-20
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    AARON AND AARON ASSOCIATES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • 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 34 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter Richard Day
Individual · British · DOB 04/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1992-02-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62012 — Business and domestic software development

Registered office

Cumberland House Sleaford Road
Wellingore
Lincoln
LN5 0HR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-12
Last: 2026-01-29

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

DAY, Peter Richard→
secretary · appointed 1992-02-27
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Active
DAY, Lindsey→
director · ~59y · appointed 2010-01-01
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Active
DAY, Peter Richard→
director · ~62y · appointed 1992-02-27
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Active
KCCF LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-02-20 · resigned 1992-02-27
Resigned
DAY, Richard Henry→
director · ~87y · appointed 1992-02-27 · resigned 2018-01-01
Resigned
AARON AND AARON ASSOCIATES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1992-02-20 · resigned 1992-02-27
Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

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2026-02-09
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2025-12-08
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2025-01-29
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2025-01-28
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2024-10-31
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2024-02-02
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2023-10-30
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2023-01-27
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2022-10-27
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2022-01-31
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2021-10-31
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2021-02-02
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2020-12-08
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2020-03-05
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2019-10-31