ALKRON INDUSTRIAL LIMITED

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03013642 · 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
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year to Feb 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). 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 29.3y

45/100
under pressure

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
11 officers (1 active, 11 linked, 3 with DOB)
75
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
101 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£0Feb 2024Feb 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-02-282024-02-28
Average employees1100

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
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-16
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  4. 2023-12-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  5. 2023-12-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  6. 2023-11-01
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  7. 2023-11-01
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  8. 2023-11-01
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    capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
    capital · SH10
  9. 2023-11-01
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  10. 2023-07-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-11-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-11-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-06-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-03-31
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    JELIC, Joanne resigned
    secretary
  18. 2009-10-30
    ➖
    FORSHAW, Victoria Jane resigned
    secretary
  19. 2009-10-30
    ➕
    JELIC, Joanne appointed
    secretary
  20. 2006-06-15
    ➕
    FORSHAW, Victoria Jane appointed
    secretary
  21. 2006-05-17
    ➖
    CONBOY, Mark resigned
    secretary
  22. 2004-11-22
    ➕
    CONBOY, Mark appointed
    secretary
  23. 2004-11-22
    ➖
    JELIC, Joanne resigned
    secretary
  24. 2001-05-29
    ➕
    JELIC, Joanne appointed
    secretary
  25. 2001-05-29
    ➖
    SUMNER, Kim Patricia resigned
    secretary
  26. 1997-04-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  27. 1997-03-06
    ➖
    SUMNER, John David resigned
    secretary
  28. 1997-03-06
    ➕
    SUMNER, Kim Patricia appointed
    secretary
  29. 1997-03-06
    ➖
    BROWN, David Michael resigned
    director
  30. 1995-06-12
    ➖
    BLEASDALE, John Francis resigned
    secretary
  31. 1995-06-12
    ➕
    SUMNER, John David appointed
    secretary
  32. 1995-06-12
    ➕
    BROWN, David Michael appointed
    director
  33. 1995-01-24
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ALKRON INDUSTRIAL LIMITED
  34. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    SUMNER, John David appointed
    director
  35. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    BLEASDALE, John Francis appointed
    secretary
  36. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    JONES, Kathryn Louise appointed
    secretary
  37. 1995-01-24
    ➖
    JONES, Kathryn Louise resigned
    secretary
  38. 1995-01-24
    ➕
    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson appointed
    director
  39. 1995-01-24
    ➖
    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson resigned
    director

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 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

85/100
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.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Alkron Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Alkron Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ALKRON INDUSTRIAL LIMITED
This company · 03013642

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Alkron Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control30/11/2023
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr John David Sumnerceased 30/11/2023· 75-100% shares

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

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7 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
Incorporated1995-01-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Manner Sutton Street
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 5DT

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-06
Last: 2026-01-23

Officers (1 active · 10 resigned)

SUMNER, John David→
director · ~61y · appointed 1995-01-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BLEASDALE, John Francis→
secretary · appointed 1995-01-24 · resigned 1995-06-12
Resigned
CONBOY, Mark→
secretary · appointed 2004-11-22 · resigned 2006-05-17
Resigned
FORSHAW, Victoria Jane→
secretary · appointed 2006-06-15 · resigned 2009-10-30
Resigned
JELIC, Joanne→
secretary · appointed 2009-10-30 · resigned 2017-03-31
Resigned
JELIC, Joanne→
secretary · appointed 2001-05-29 · resigned 2004-11-22
Resigned
JONES, Kathryn Louise→
secretary · appointed 1995-01-24 · resigned 1995-01-24
Resigned
SUMNER, John David→
secretary · appointed 1995-06-12 · resigned 1997-03-06
Resigned
SUMNER, Kim Patricia→
secretary · appointed 1997-03-06 · resigned 2001-05-29
Resigned
BROWN, David Michael→
director · ~82y · appointed 1995-06-12 · resigned 1997-03-06
Resigned
STEPHENS, Graham Robertson→
director · ~76y · appointed 1995-01-24 · resigned 1995-01-24
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 property17/04/1997—
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Recent filings (101 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-05
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-16
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-12-12
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-12-09
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-11-01
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-11-01
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2023-11-01
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-16