1ST CHOICE CONTRACTORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02980890 · ltd · incorporated 1994-10-19
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
What changed my view
Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£298.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Painting
Sector: Construction
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 43390Other building completion and finishing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
72 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £298,484
Net assets shrinking
Down £124,626 YoY
Cash YoY
+8%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£348k
↑ 8.0% YoY
Net Worth
£298k
↓ 29% YoY
Current Assets
£409k
↓ 9.4% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£90k£181k£271k£361k£451kOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£298.5k£423.1k
Current assets£408.8k£451.3k
Cash£347.9k£322.1k
Debtors£40.6k£125.2k
Net assets£298.5k£423.1k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2022-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-13
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  7. 2021-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-02-12
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    second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  9. 2020-03-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-10-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2019-07-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-05-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-06-29
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    officers · AP01
  14. 2017-04-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-04-01
    ➕
    DUNTON, Jake appointed
    director
  16. 2016-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 1994-10-19
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    Company incorporated
    As 1ST CHOICE CONTRACTORS LIMITED
  18. 1994-10-19
    ➕
    DUNTON, Tracy Leigh appointed
    secretary
  19. 1994-10-19
    ➕
    DUNTON, Andrew John appointed
    director
  20. 1994-10-19
    ➕
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1994-10-19
    ➖
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1994-10-19
    ➕
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1994-10-19
    ➖
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
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 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Andrew John Dunton
Individual · British · DOB 08/1965 · age 61
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting19/10/2016

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
Incorporated1994-10-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43341 — Painting

Registered office

Kingsley House
2 Thorney Lane North
Iver
Bucks.
SL0 9JY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-17
Last: 2025-10-03

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

DUNTON, Tracy Leigh→
secretary · appointed 1994-10-19
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Active
DUNTON, Andrew John→
director · ~61y · appointed 1994-10-19
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Active
DUNTON, Jake→
director · ~33y · appointed 2017-04-01
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Active
HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1994-10-19 · resigned 1994-10-19
Resigned
HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1994-10-19 · resigned 1994-10-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (72 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-29
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2021-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-29
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2021-02-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-03-12