ASSOCIATED AGENCIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02799952 · ltd · incorporated 1993-03-16
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 26.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 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

3 live charges · oldest 26.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.0 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: medium (79/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
11 officers (3 active, 11 linked, 6 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
87 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees200200

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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-15
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  2. 2024-09-16
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  3. 2023-09-18
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  4. 2022-08-26
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  5. 2021-06-28
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  6. 2020-11-10
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  7. 2019-05-09
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  8. 2018-07-19
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  9. 2017-08-21
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  10. 2016-08-09
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  11. 2016-03-21
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  12. 2015-09-15
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  13. 2015-03-27
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    THOMAS, Roy appointed
    director
  14. 2015-03-27
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  15. 2015-03-20
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  16. 2014-09-06
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  17. 2002-06-05
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lakesmere Developments Limited
  18. 2002-06-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lakesmere Developments Limited
  19. 2000-07-05
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lakesmere Developments Limited
  20. 1997-12-04
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    THOMAS, Roy appointed
    secretary
  21. 1997-12-04
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    POWELL, Julie Vanessa resigned
    secretary
  22. 1997-12-04
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    POWELL, Julie Vanessa resigned
    director
  23. 1995-04-06
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    THOMAS, Roy resigned
    secretary
  24. 1995-04-06
    ➖
    POWELL, Michael Royston resigned
    director
  25. 1995-04-06
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    THOMAS, Roy resigned
    director
  26. 1995-04-05
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    THOMAS, Valerie appointed
    director
  27. 1995-04-05
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    POWELL, Julie Vanessa appointed
    secretary
  28. 1995-04-05
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    POWELL, Julie Vanessa appointed
    director
  29. 1995-01-12
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    MARSHALL, John Ellerslie resigned
    director
  30. 1995-01-12
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    POWELL, Michael Royston appointed
    director
  31. 1993-03-16
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    Company incorporated
    As ASSOCIATED AGENCIES LIMITED
  32. 1993-03-16
    ➕
    THOMAS, Roy appointed
    secretary
  33. 1993-03-16
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    JPCORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1993-03-16
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    JPCORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  35. 1993-03-16
    ➕
    MARSHALL, John Ellerslie appointed
    director
  36. 1993-03-16
    ➕
    THOMAS, Roy appointed
    director
  37. 1993-03-16
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    JPCORD LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  38. 1993-03-16
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    JPCORD LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 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

96/100
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.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 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

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 Roy Thomas
Individual · British · DOB 07/1949 · age 77
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Valerie Thomas
Individual · British · DOB 07/1949 · age 77
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1993-03-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

32 Abelwood Road
Long Hanborough
Witney
Oxfordshire
OX29 8DD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-30
Last: 2026-03-16

Officers (3 active · 8 resigned)

THOMAS, Roy→
secretary · appointed 1997-12-04
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Active
THOMAS, Roy→
director · ~77y · appointed 2015-03-27
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Active
THOMAS, Valerie→
director · ~77y · appointed 1995-04-05
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Active
POWELL, Julie Vanessa→
secretary · appointed 1995-04-05 · resigned 1997-12-04
Resigned
THOMAS, Roy→
secretary · appointed 1993-03-16 · resigned 1995-04-06
Resigned
JPCORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-03-16 · resigned 1993-03-16
Resigned
MARSHALL, John Ellerslie→
director · ~90y · appointed 1993-03-16 · resigned 1995-01-12
Resigned
POWELL, Julie Vanessa→
director · ~80y · appointed 1995-04-05 · resigned 1997-12-04
Resigned
POWELL, Michael Royston→
director · ~83y · appointed 1995-01-12 · resigned 1995-04-06
Resigned
THOMAS, Roy→
director · ~77y · appointed 1993-03-16 · resigned 1995-04-06
Resigned
JPCORD LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1993-03-16 · resigned 1993-03-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lakesmere Developments
Lakesmere Developments Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property05/06/2002—
outstanding
Lakesmere Developments
Lakesmere Developments Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property05/06/2002—
outstanding
Lakesmere Developments
Lakesmere Developments Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property05/07/2000—
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Recent filings (87 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-16
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accounts · AA
2025-08-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-16
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accounts · AA
2024-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-22
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accounts · AA
2023-09-18
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2023-03-17
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accounts · AA
2022-08-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-18
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accounts · AA
2021-06-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-16
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accounts · AA
2020-11-10
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-17
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accounts · AA
2019-05-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-03-16