AFFORDABLE WINDOW SYSTEMS LIMITED

📈Growthactive

02772287 · ltd · incorporated 1992-12-09

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 57/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 5 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (77/100).

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Refinance opportunity

6 live charges · 5 lenders · oldest 28.3y

45/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 28.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 5 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 40/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

6 charges (6/6 with lender, 6/6 with type)

Directors & officers

16 officers (8 active, 16 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

12 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

133 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £2,169,702

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£2.17M	£1.68M
Average employees	208	20000

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (47 events)Click to expand

2025-12-11
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accounts · AA
2024-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
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mortgage · MR01
2024-03-21
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC (Company Number 2065)
2023-12-20
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accounts · AA
2023-12-13
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officers · CH01
2023-12-13
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officers · CH01
2023-12-13
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-08-14
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-01-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-03
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2021-03-03
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-12-23
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2020-09-23
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2020-07-08
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mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-07-02
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
2019-12-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-09-21
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COCKER, Paula appointed
director
2018-09-21
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STANTON, Nigel appointed
director
2018-09-21
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GAUGHAN, Lucy Theresa resigned
director
2018-09-21
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GAUGHAN, Matthew Stephen resigned
director
2018-09-21
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RIDGEWAY, Karen resigned
director
2009-02-16
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GAUGHAN, Lucy Theresa appointed
director
2009-02-16
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GAUGHAN, Matthew Stephen appointed
director
2009-02-16
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RIDGEWAY, Karen appointed
director
2006-05-26
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MAGEEAN, Karen appointed
director
2006-05-26
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BLYTH, Norman Mckenzie resigned
director
2003-11-28
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Linfood Properties Limited
2003-10-27
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Linfood Properties Limited
2003-02-18
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Charge satisfied #1
2001-10-25
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HOOP, Andrew appointed
director
2001-10-25
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MYERS, Laurence Sydney George appointed
director
2001-01-03
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
1998-05-05
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BLYTH, Norman Mckenzie appointed
director
1998-02-18
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Yorkshire Bank PLC
1993-12-23
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GAUGHAN, Michael appointed
secretary
1993-12-23
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GAUGHAN, Michael appointed
director
1992-12-23
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GAUGHAN, Mary resigned
secretary
1992-12-23
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GAUGHAN, Mary resigned
director
1992-12-09
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Company incorporated
As AFFORDABLE WINDOW SYSTEMS LIMITED
1992-12-09
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CORPORATE NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1992-12-09
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CORPORATE NOMINEE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1992-12-09
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CORPORATE NOMINEE SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1992-12-09
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CORPORATE NOMINEE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
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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 32 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 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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

1 low

5 live charges

low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Group structure

Affordable Aluminium Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Affordable Aluminium Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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AFFORDABLE WINDOW SYSTEMS LIMITED

This company · 02772287

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Affordable Aluminium Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	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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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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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

Incorporated1992-12-09

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Affordable Business Centre Beacon Road

Poulton Business Park

Poulton-Le-Fylde

FY6 8JE

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-10

Last: 2025-11-26