A. A. CHEMICAL CLEANING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03228187 · ltd · incorporated 1996-07-23
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Why now
Window closing · medium confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Deal-killer verdict: complicated → clean
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 29.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Deal-killer verdict: complicated → clean
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
£392
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Specialised cleaning services
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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 29.3y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.3 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: high (83/100)

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

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
95 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £392

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£392
↑ 103% YoY
Current Assets
£61k
↑ 19% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£12k£3k£17k£32k£46k£61kOct 2023Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£3.9k£-9.1k£4.8k
Current assets£61.0k£51.1k£57.5k
Net assets£392£-11.9k£1.4k

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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
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 (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-11-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2025-11-18
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  4. 2025-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-07-29
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2024-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-10-18
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    termination-director-company
    officers · TM01
  8. 2023-07-15
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    HALL PATTERSON, Iain James resigned
    director
  9. 2023-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-07-11
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    HOCKHAM, Christopher Robert appointed
    director
  11. 2022-07-11
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2022-06-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-07-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  17. 2018-01-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2001-04-30
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    CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas resigned
    secretary
  19. 2001-04-30
    ➖
    CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas resigned
    director
  20. 2000-11-01
    ➕
    STENSTROM, Paul Joseph appointed
    secretary
  21. 2000-01-31
    ➖
    PEARSON, Anthony Frederick resigned
    director
  22. 1997-03-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  23. 1997-01-01
    ➕
    STENSTROM, Paul Joseph appointed
    director
  24. 1997-01-01
    ➕
    HALL PATTERSON, Iain James appointed
    director
  25. 1996-12-06
    ➕
    CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas appointed
    secretary
  26. 1996-12-06
    ➖
    BRITANNIA COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1996-12-06
    ➕
    CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas appointed
    director
  28. 1996-12-06
    ➕
    PEARSON, Anthony Frederick appointed
    director
  29. 1996-12-06
    ➖
    DEANSGATE COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  30. 1996-07-23
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    Company incorporated
    As A. A. CHEMICAL CLEANING COMPANY LIMITED
  31. 1996-07-23
    ➕
    BRITANNIA COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 1996-07-23
    ➕
    DEANSGATE COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 63. 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 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Christopher Robert Hockham
Individual · British · DOB 11/1982 · age 44
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting15/07/2023

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
Incorporated1996-07-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC81222 — Specialised cleaning services

Registered office

Unit 3, Barton Business Park
Cawdor Street
Eccles
Manchester
M30 0QR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-16
Last: 2026-07-02

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

STENSTROM, Paul Joseph→
secretary · appointed 2000-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOCKHAM, Christopher Robert→
director · ~44y · appointed 2022-07-11
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Active
STENSTROM, Paul Joseph→
director · ~63y · appointed 1997-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas→
secretary · appointed 1996-12-06 · resigned 2001-04-30
Resigned
BRITANNIA COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-07-23 · resigned 1996-12-06
Resigned
CHARNOCK, Keith Thomas→
director · ~80y · appointed 1996-12-06 · resigned 2001-04-30
Resigned
HALL PATTERSON, Iain James→
director · ~67y · appointed 1997-01-01 · resigned 2023-07-15
Resigned
PEARSON, Anthony Frederick→
director · ~80y · appointed 1996-12-06 · resigned 2000-01-31
Resigned
DEANSGATE COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1996-07-23 · resigned 1996-12-06
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 property26/03/1997—
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Recent filings (95 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-07-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-18
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2025-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-16
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-11
termination-director-company
officers · TM01
2023-10-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-07-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-22