CLEVELAND ALLIANCES LTD

🌳Matureactive
02709825 · ltd · incorporated 1992-04-27
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 28.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28302
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). 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

1 live charge · oldest 28.9y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.9 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 (80/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (4 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
105 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Average employees1000800

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-05
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  2. 2025-09-05
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    address · AD01
  3. 2025-09-04
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    DIXON, Patrick Henry resigned
    secretary
  4. 2025-09-04
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  5. 2025-09-04
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    officers · CH01
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  7. 2025-09-04
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2025-09-04
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  9. 2025-09-04
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
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  10. 2025-09-04
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  11. 2025-09-04
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  12. 2025-09-04
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  13. 2025-09-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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  14. 2025-06-25
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  15. 2024-06-20
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  16. 2023-12-19
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  17. 2023-12-19
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  18. 2023-12-19
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  19. 2023-09-29
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    DIXON, Shirley appointed
    director
  20. 2023-01-19
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  21. 2022-03-15
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  22. 2004-10-01
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    DIXON, James Patrick appointed
    director
  23. 1997-08-01
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  24. 1993-01-21
    ➕
    DIXON, Genny Wentworth, Dr appointed
    director
  25. 1993-01-21
    ➕
    DIXON, Patrick Henry appointed
    director
  26. 1993-01-21
    ➕
    DIXON, Patrick Henry appointed
    secretary
  27. 1993-01-21
    ➖
    LE ROUX, Michael Gordon resigned
    secretary
  28. 1993-01-21
    ➖
    MILLER, Francis Joseph resigned
    director
  29. 1993-01-21
    ➖
    SCAIFE, Michael John resigned
    director
  30. 1992-04-27
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    Company incorporated
    As CLEVELAND ALLIANCES LTD
  31. 1992-04-27
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    LE ROUX, Michael Gordon appointed
    secretary
  32. 1992-04-27
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    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 1992-04-27
    ➖
    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1992-04-27
    ➕
    MILLER, Francis Joseph appointed
    director
  35. 1992-04-27
    ➕
    SCAIFE, Michael John appointed
    director
  36. 1992-04-27
    ➕
    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  37. 1992-04-27
    ➖
    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr James Patrick Dixon
Individual · British · DOB 01/1977 · age 49
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Patrick Henry Dixon
Individual · British · DOB 01/1951 · age 75
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒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.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1992-04-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC28302 — SIC 28302

Registered office

Cleveland House Kings Mount
Ramparts Business Park
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
TD15 1TQ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-11
Last: 2026-04-27

Officers (4 active · 6 resigned)

DIXON, Genny Wentworth, Dr→
director · ~71y · appointed 1993-01-21
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Active
DIXON, James Patrick→
director · ~49y · appointed 2004-10-01
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Active
DIXON, Patrick Henry→
director · ~75y · appointed 1993-01-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DIXON, Shirley→
director · ~63y · appointed 2023-09-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DIXON, Patrick Henry→
secretary · appointed 1993-01-21 · resigned 2025-09-04
Resigned
LE ROUX, Michael Gordon→
secretary · appointed 1992-04-27 · resigned 1993-01-21
Resigned
LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-04-27 · resigned 1992-04-27
Resigned
MILLER, Francis Joseph→
director · ~88y · appointed 1992-04-27 · resigned 1993-01-21
Resigned
SCAIFE, Michael John→
director · ~80y · appointed 1992-04-27 · resigned 1993-01-21
Resigned
LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1992-04-27 · resigned 1992-04-27
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property01/08/1997—
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Recent filings (105 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-05
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-04
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-13