AIRE VALLEY ARCHITECTURAL (ALUMINIUM) LTD

🌳Matureactive
02932949 · ltd · incorporated 1994-05-25
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
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25120
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (65/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 31.3y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
98 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
75
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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Average employees17001700

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-10
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  2. 2025-04-01
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  3. 2024-04-16
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  4. 2023-04-17
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  5. 2022-06-23
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  6. 2022-02-04
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  7. 2022-02-01
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    SCHOFIELD, Duncan James resigned
    director
  8. 2021-03-25
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  9. 2020-05-06
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  10. 2019-03-28
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  11. 2018-03-20
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  12. 2017-05-16
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  13. 2017-05-15
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    SCHOFIELD, Duncan James appointed
    director
  14. 2017-03-29
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  15. 2017-01-23
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  16. 2017-01-23
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  17. 2017-01-23
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  18. 2016-12-20
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    KILVINGTON, Roy resigned
    secretary
  19. 2016-12-20
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    JOHNSON, Stephen Nicholas resigned
    director
  20. 2016-12-20
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    KILVINGTON, Roy resigned
    director
  21. 2014-12-11
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    Charge satisfied #2
  22. 2013-05-01
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    KILVINGTON, Christopher Marc appointed
    director
  23. 2013-05-01
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    PARKER, Stuart Kenneth appointed
    director
  24. 2009-11-10
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    KILVINGTON, Roy appointed
    secretary
  25. 2009-10-31
    ➖
    BLAND, Christopher Paul resigned
    secretary
  26. 2009-10-31
    ➖
    BLAND, Christopher Paul resigned
    director
  27. 2000-11-20
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    Charge satisfied #1
  28. 1996-05-28
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  29. 1995-03-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: West Yorshire Small Firms Fund Limited
  30. 1994-07-18
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    BLAND, Christopher Paul appointed
    secretary
  31. 1994-07-18
    ➖
    LAZARUS, Heather Ann resigned
    nominee-secretary
  32. 1994-07-18
    ➕
    BLAND, Christopher Paul appointed
    director
  33. 1994-07-18
    ➕
    JOHNSON, Stephen Nicholas appointed
    director
  34. 1994-07-18
    ➕
    KILVINGTON, Roy appointed
    director
  35. 1994-07-18
    ➖
    LAZARUS, Harry Pierre resigned
    nominee-director
  36. 1994-05-25
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    Company incorporated
    As AIRE VALLEY ARCHITECTURAL (ALUMINIUM) LTD
  37. 1994-05-25
    ➕
    LAZARUS, Heather Ann appointed
    nominee-secretary
  38. 1994-05-25
    ➕
    LAZARUS, Harry Pierre appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

66/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 13 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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 Christopher Marc Kilvington
Individual · British · DOB 08/1984 · age 42
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/12/2016
Mr Stuart Kenneth Parker
Individual · British · DOB 06/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/12/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated1994-05-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25120 — SIC 25120

Registered office

Bridge House
1 Parkwood Street
Keighley
West Yorkshire
BD21 4QH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

KILVINGTON, Christopher Marc→
director · ~42y · appointed 2013-05-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PARKER, Stuart Kenneth→
director · ~62y · appointed 2013-05-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BLAND, Christopher Paul→
secretary · appointed 1994-07-18 · resigned 2009-10-31
Resigned
KILVINGTON, Roy→
secretary · appointed 2009-11-10 · resigned 2016-12-20
Resigned
LAZARUS, Heather Ann→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1994-05-25 · resigned 1994-07-18
Resigned
BLAND, Christopher Paul→
director · ~76y · appointed 1994-07-18 · resigned 2009-10-31
Resigned
JOHNSON, Stephen Nicholas→
director · ~70y · appointed 1994-07-18 · resigned 2016-12-20
Resigned
KILVINGTON, Roy→
director · ~72y · appointed 1994-07-18 · resigned 2016-12-20
Resigned
LAZARUS, Harry Pierre→
nominee-director · ~89y · appointed 1994-05-25 · resigned 1994-07-18
Resigned
SCHOFIELD, Duncan James→
director · ~50y · appointed 2017-05-15 · resigned 2022-02-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property28/05/199611/12/2014
satisfied
West Yorshire Small Firms Fund
West Yorshire Small Firms Fund Limited
Debenture1 property08/03/199520/11/2000

Recent filings (98 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-13
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accounts · AA
2026-03-10
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-02-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-08