ABS CONSULTANTS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03020371 · ltd · incorporated 1995-02-10
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 21.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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: Information technology consultancy activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 21.2y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 21.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (64/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
90 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-02-28
Average employees1

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-12
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  2. 2025-11-11
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  3. 2025-10-31
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    WALKER, William resigned
    director
  4. 2024-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  5. 2023-10-26
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  6. 2022-10-21
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  7. 2021-08-14
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  8. 2020-11-19
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  9. 2020-04-15
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  10. 2020-03-26
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    RUSSELL, Geoffrey Edmund resigned
    director
  11. 2019-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-10-11
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  13. 2018-06-27
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  14. 2018-06-14
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    WALKER, William appointed
    director
  15. 2017-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  16. 2016-09-19
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  17. 2016-03-06
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  18. 2015-10-16
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  19. 2010-04-30
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    MCKINNON, Edward Stanhope resigned
    director
  20. 2005-03-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bsi-Ag
  21. 2002-09-09
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    TERRIS, Graham Stuart appointed
    director
  22. 2001-12-18
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    SMART, Colin appointed
    secretary
  23. 2001-12-18
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    PATTERSON, Clifford Clive resigned
    secretary
  24. 2001-12-18
    ➖
    PATTERSON, Clifford Clive resigned
    director
  25. 1995-11-01
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    MCKINNON, Edward Stanhope appointed
    director
  26. 1995-02-10
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    Company incorporated
    As ABS CONSULTANTS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
  27. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    SMART, Colin appointed
    director
  28. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    PATTERSON, Clifford Clive appointed
    secretary
  29. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1995-02-10
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    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  31. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    PATTERSON, Clifford Clive appointed
    director
  32. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    RUSSELL, Geoffrey Edmund appointed
    director
  33. 1995-02-10
    ➕
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  34. 1995-02-10
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    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-02-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62020 — Information technology consultancy activities

Registered office

46-54 High Street
Ingatestone
Essex
CM4 9DW

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-24
Last: 2026-02-10

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

SMART, Colin→
secretary · appointed 2001-12-18
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Active
SMART, Colin→
director · ~68y · appointed 1995-02-10
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Active
TERRIS, Graham Stuart→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-09-09
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Active
PATTERSON, Clifford Clive→
secretary · appointed 1995-02-10 · resigned 2001-12-18
Resigned
HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-02-10 · resigned 1995-02-10
Resigned
MCKINNON, Edward Stanhope→
director · ~67y · appointed 1995-11-01 · resigned 2010-04-30
Resigned
PATTERSON, Clifford Clive→
director · ~66y · appointed 1995-02-10 · resigned 2001-12-18
Resigned
RUSSELL, Geoffrey Edmund→
director · ~78y · appointed 1995-02-10 · resigned 2020-03-26
Resigned
WALKER, William→
director · ~73y · appointed 2018-06-14 · resigned 2025-10-31
Resigned
HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-02-10 · resigned 1995-02-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Bsi-Ag
Rent deposit deed1 property23/03/2005—
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Recent filings (90 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-12
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-15