ARCTEC ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD.

🌳Matureactive
03037477 · ltd · incorporated 1995-03-24
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 31.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 31.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.1 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 (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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
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
68 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£75k£150k£226k£301k£376kJul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Total assets—£266.6k
Current assets—£376.1k
Cash—£114.3k
Debtors—£208.5k
Net assets—£255.4k
Average employees12—

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-20
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  2. 2025-03-20
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  3. 2024-05-29
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  4. 2024-03-27
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  5. 2023-02-03
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  6. 2022-03-22
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  7. 2021-04-28
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  8. 2020-04-28
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  9. 2019-04-29
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  10. 2018-04-26
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  11. 2017-04-27
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  12. 2016-04-18
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  13. 2015-12-23
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  14. 2015-04-29
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  15. 2015-03-27
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  16. 1995-06-02
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  17. 1995-03-24
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    Company incorporated
    As ARCTEC ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD.
  18. 1995-03-24
    ➕
    BATES, Alastair Duncan appointed
    secretary
  19. 1995-03-24
    ➕
    BATES, Alastair Duncan appointed
    director
  20. 1995-03-24
    ➕
    MCCLUSKEY, John Collinson appointed
    director
  21. 1995-03-24
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1995-03-24
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Alastair Duncan Bates
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
John Collinson Mccluskey
Individual · British · DOB 12/1956 · age 70
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1995-03-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Unit 6, Sandmere Road
Leechmere Industrial Estate
Sunderland
Tyne & Wear
SR2 9TP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-07
Last: 2026-03-24

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

BATES, Alastair Duncan→
secretary · appointed 1995-03-24
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Active
BATES, Alastair Duncan→
director · ~63y · appointed 1995-03-24
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Active
MCCLUSKEY, John Collinson→
director · ~70y · appointed 1995-03-24
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Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-03-24 · resigned 1995-03-24
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 property02/06/1995—
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Recent filings (68 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-21
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2026-04-20
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2025-03-24
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accounts · AA
2025-03-20
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accounts · AA
2024-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-25
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accounts · AA
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-27