AXXESS IDENTIFICATION LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
02880188 · ltd · incorporated 1993-12-14
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£310.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26512
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 4 lenders · oldest 31.6y

15/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · 4 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
108 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £310,458
Net assets shrinking
Down £10,664 YoY
Cash YoY
+36%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£21k
↑ 36% YoY
Net Worth
£310k
↓ 3.3% YoY
Current Assets
£522k
↓ 4.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£109k£218k£328k£437k£546kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£317.1k£338.2k
Current assets£522.4k£545.9k
Cash£21.4k£15.7k
Debtors£322.4k£356.0k
Net assets£310.5k£321.1k

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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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2024-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-09-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2021-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-10-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-10-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-01-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-18
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  14. 2016-04-18
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  15. 2016-04-18
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  16. 2009-07-01
    ➖
    FOX, Nigel Thomas resigned
    director
  17. 2005-03-24
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    FOX, Nigel Thomas appointed
    director
  18. 2005-03-22
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  19. 2003-09-25
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland Commercial Services Limited
  20. 2001-05-11
    ➖
    FABER, Robert resigned
    director
  21. 1997-04-16
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    Charge satisfied #1
  22. 1995-12-14
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  23. 1994-11-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  24. 1994-09-02
    ➕
    FABER, Robert appointed
    director
  25. 1993-12-14
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    Company incorporated
    As AXXESS IDENTIFICATION LIMITED
  26. 1993-12-14
    ➕
    VAN EEKEREN, Sandra Mary appointed
    secretary
  27. 1993-12-14
    ➕
    VAN EEKEREN, Frederick Francisco appointed
    director
  28. 1993-12-14
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1993-12-14
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

93/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Frederik Francisco Van Eekeren
Individual · Dutch · DOB 06/1962 · age 64
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% 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
Incorporated1993-12-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC26512 — SIC 26512

Registered office

Hermes House
Fire Fly Avenue
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN2 2GA
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-28
Last: 2025-12-14

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

VAN EEKEREN, Sandra Mary→
secretary · appointed 1993-12-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
VAN EEKEREN, Frederick Francisco→
director · ~64y · appointed 1993-12-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-12-14 · resigned 1993-12-14
Resigned
FABER, Robert→
director · ~71y · appointed 1994-09-02 · resigned 2001-05-11
Resigned
FOX, Nigel Thomas→
director · ~66y · appointed 2005-03-24 · resigned 2009-07-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
3
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property22/03/2005—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland Commercial Services Limited
Fixed and floating charge1 property25/09/2003—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property14/12/1995—
satisfied
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Fixed and floating charge2 properties30/11/199416/04/1997
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Recent filings (108 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-21
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-14