AMCO SECURITY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03133703 · ltd · incorporated 1995-12-04
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£623.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Security systems service activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
80 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
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 £623,216

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£666k
Net Worth
£623k
Current Assets
£768k
Current Liabilities
—
£0£154k£307k£461k£614k£768kOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£632.4k—
Current assets£768.1k—
Cash£666.0k—
Debtors£61.5k—
Net assets£623.2k—
Average employees—2400

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2025-08-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  3. 2025-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-06-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-06-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-07-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-18
    ✏️
    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  14. 2016-04-18
    ✏️
    change-of-name-notice
    change-of-name · CONNOT
  15. 2013-10-21
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Susannah Danielle appointed
    director
  16. 2008-11-01
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Christopher Guy Morrey appointed
    director
  17. 2008-11-01
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Leslie William appointed
    director
  18. 2008-10-31
    ➖
    QUIGLEY, Leslie William resigned
    secretary
  19. 1999-12-02
    ➖
    QUIGLEY, Susannah Danielle resigned
    director
  20. 1999-12-01
    ➖
    QUIGLEY, Gillian Lorraine resigned
    secretary
  21. 1999-12-01
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Leslie William appointed
    secretary
  22. 1995-12-04
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AMCO SECURITY LIMITED
  23. 1995-12-04
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Gillian Lorraine appointed
    director
  24. 1995-12-04
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Gillian Lorraine appointed
    secretary
  25. 1995-12-04
    ➕
    CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 1995-12-04
    ➖
    CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1995-12-04
    ➕
    QUIGLEY, Susannah Danielle appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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

Leslie William Quigley holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

🏛️
Leslie William Quigley
Corporate parent
⬇
AMCO SECURITY LIMITED
This company · 03133703

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Leslie William Quigley
Corporate entity
——sig. influencesignificant influence04/12/2016
Mr Leslie William Quigley
Individual · British · DOB 10/1944 · age 82
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1995-12-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC80200 — Security systems service activities

Registered office

Amco House Market Place
Easingwold
York
YO61 3AD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-06
Last: 2025-08-23

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

QUIGLEY, Christopher Guy Morrey→
director · ~48y · appointed 2008-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
QUIGLEY, Gillian Lorraine→
director · ~80y · appointed 1995-12-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
QUIGLEY, Leslie William→
director · ~82y · appointed 2008-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
QUIGLEY, Susannah Danielle→
director · ~51y · appointed 2013-10-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
QUIGLEY, Gillian Lorraine→
secretary · appointed 1995-12-04 · resigned 1999-12-01
Resigned
QUIGLEY, Leslie William→
secretary · appointed 1999-12-01 · resigned 2008-10-31
Resigned
CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-12-04 · resigned 1995-12-04
Resigned
QUIGLEY, Susannah Danielle→
director · ~51y · appointed 1995-12-04 · resigned 1999-12-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-02