AUSTELLGRANGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02872834 · ltd · incorporated 1993-11-17
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 31.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45112
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 45190SIC 45190
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 31.3y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.3 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 (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
88 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
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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees2200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2025-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-11-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-11-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-03-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2023-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-08-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-11-02
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1995-04-05
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  17. 1993-12-20
    ➕
    FANTOM, Mandy appointed
    secretary
  18. 1993-12-20
    ➕
    FANTOM, Mandy appointed
    director
  19. 1993-12-20
    ➕
    FANTOM, Paul James appointed
    director
  20. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    GRAEME, Dorothy May resigned
    nominee-secretary
  21. 1993-12-20
    ➖
    GRAEME, Lesley Joyce resigned
    nominee-director
  22. 1993-11-17
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    Company incorporated
    As AUSTELLGRANGE LIMITED
  23. 1993-11-17
    ➕
    GRAEME, Dorothy May appointed
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1993-11-17
    ➕
    GRAEME, Lesley Joyce appointed
    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 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — 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 65. 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 33 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
Paul James Fantom
Individual · British · DOB 07/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Mandy Fantom
Individual · British · DOB 06/1961 · age 65
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
Incorporated1993-11-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45112 — SIC 45112

Registered office

Churchfield House
36 Vicar Street
Dudley
West Midlands
DY2 8RG
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-14
Last: 2025-10-31

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

FANTOM, Mandy→
secretary · appointed 1993-12-20
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Active
FANTOM, Mandy→
director · ~65y · appointed 1993-12-20
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Active
FANTOM, Paul James→
director · ~62y · appointed 1993-12-20
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Active
GRAEME, Dorothy May→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-11-17 · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned
GRAEME, Lesley Joyce→
nominee-director · ~73y · appointed 1993-11-17 · resigned 1993-12-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property05/04/1995—
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Recent filings (88 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-07-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-03