ADORABLE HOSIERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02723178 · ltd · incorporated 1992-06-16
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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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
77 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees300300

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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Last 180 days
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filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-27
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  2. 2025-03-31
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  3. 2024-03-25
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  4. 2023-06-06
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  5. 2022-06-24
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  6. 2021-06-29
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  7. 2020-03-30
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  8. 2019-04-08
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  9. 2018-03-28
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  10. 2017-03-08
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  11. 2016-06-23
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  12. 2016-03-23
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  13. 2015-06-17
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  14. 2015-03-24
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  15. 2014-06-18
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  16. 2014-03-03
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  17. 2005-11-07
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    ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette resigned
    director
  18. 1993-11-01
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    ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette appointed
    director
  19. 1992-12-21
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    COOK, Colin Terence appointed
    director
  20. 1992-12-21
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    ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette resigned
    director
  21. 1992-12-18
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    COOK, Karen Tracey appointed
    secretary
  22. 1992-12-18
    ➕
    COOK, Karen Tracey appointed
    director
  23. 1992-12-18
    ➖
    ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony resigned
    secretary
  24. 1992-12-18
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    ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony resigned
    director
  25. 1992-06-16
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    Company incorporated
    As ADORABLE HOSIERY LIMITED
  26. 1992-06-16
    ➕
    ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony appointed
    secretary
  27. 1992-06-16
    ➕
    NOTEHOLD LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 1992-06-16
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    NOTEHOLD LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1992-06-16
    ➕
    ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony appointed
    director
  30. 1992-06-16
    ➕
    ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette appointed
    director

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 67 — 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 67. 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 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Colin Terence Cook
Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Karen Tracey Cook
Individual · British · DOB 06/1965 · age 61
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
Incorporated1992-06-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

338 Kingsland Road
London
E8 4DA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last: 2025-06-16

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

COOK, Karen Tracey→
secretary · appointed 1992-12-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COOK, Colin Terence→
director · ~67y · appointed 1992-12-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COOK, Karen Tracey→
director · ~61y · appointed 1992-12-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony→
secretary · appointed 1992-06-16 · resigned 1992-12-18
Resigned
NOTEHOLD LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-06-16 · resigned 1992-06-16
Resigned
ROSENBERG, Brian Anthony→
director · ~89y · appointed 1992-06-16 · resigned 1992-12-18
Resigned
ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette→
director · ~91y · appointed 1993-11-01 · resigned 2005-11-07
Resigned
ROSENBERG, Monique Rosette→
director · ~91y · appointed 1992-06-16 · resigned 1992-12-21
Resigned

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Recent filings (77 total)

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2026-02-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-20
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-04-08