BRITTECH CONTROLS EUROPE LIMITED

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03013316 · ltd · incorporated 1995-01-24
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
—
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£244.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 26301
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 86). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 29.9y

45/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (1 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
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
83 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 £243,985
Net assets shrinking
Down £819 YoY
Cash YoY
+0%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£945
~ YoY
Net Worth
£244k
~ YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£49k£98k£147k£196k£245kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Cash£945£945
Net assets£244.0k£244.8k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-02-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2022-02-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2021-11-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2021-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-01-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-03-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2017-03-22
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  16. 2017-03-06
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  17. 2017-02-03
    ➖
    BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 1996-07-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  19. 1995-09-27
    ➖
    JENNINGS, Linda Anne resigned
    secretary
  20. 1995-09-27
    ➕
    BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 1995-02-03
    ➕
    JENNINGS, Peter James appointed
    director
  22. 1995-02-03
    ➕
    JENNINGS, Linda Anne appointed
    secretary
  23. 1995-02-03
    ➖
    BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1995-02-03
    ➖
    BONDLAW DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 1995-01-24
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    Company incorporated
    As BRITTECH CONTROLS EUROPE LIMITED
  26. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    BONDLAW DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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 Peter James Jennings
Individual · British · DOB 09/1940 · age 86
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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-01-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC26301 — SIC 26301

Registered office

Francis Clark Lowin House
Tregolls Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2NA
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-07
Last: 2026-01-24

Officers (1 active · 4 resigned)

JENNINGS, Peter James→
director · ~86y · appointed 1995-02-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JENNINGS, Linda Anne→
secretary · appointed 1995-02-03 · resigned 1995-09-27
Resigned
BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1995-09-27 · resigned 2017-02-03
Resigned
BONDLAW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-01-24 · resigned 1995-02-03
Resigned
BONDLAW DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-01-24 · resigned 1995-02-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Fixed and floating charge1 property08/07/1996—
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Recent filings (83 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-09