A.G.M. EXHIBITION SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03283315 · ltd · incorporated 1996-11-25
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
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of exhibition and fair organisers
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
82 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees0100

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-11-29
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  4. 2024-07-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2024-07-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2024-07-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-07-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-07-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2024-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-01-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-02-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-02-27
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    MAYNARD, Russell appointed
    director
  15. 2019-02-27
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2019-02-27
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  17. 2019-02-27
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  18. 2019-02-27
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  19. 1996-11-26
    ➕
    MAYNARD, Pauline Margaret appointed
    secretary
  20. 1996-11-26
    ➕
    MAYNARD, Alan George appointed
    director
  21. 1996-11-26
    ➖
    ASHCROFT CAMERON SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1996-11-26
    ➖
    ASHCROFT CAMERON NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1996-11-25
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    Company incorporated
    As A.G.M. EXHIBITION SERVICES LIMITED
  24. 1996-11-25
    ➕
    ASHCROFT CAMERON SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1996-11-25
    ➕
    ASHCROFT CAMERON NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 77 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 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Russell Maynard
Individual · British · DOB 11/1973 · age 53
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting27/02/2019
Mr Alan George Maynard
Individual · British · DOB 04/1949 · age 77
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1996-11-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC82301 — Activities of exhibition and fair organisers

Registered office

East Wing Goffs Oak House
Goffs Lane
Goffs Oak
Hertfordshire
EN7 5GE
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-09
Last: 2025-11-25

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MAYNARD, Pauline Margaret→
secretary · appointed 1996-11-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MAYNARD, Alan George→
director · ~77y · appointed 1996-11-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MAYNARD, Russell→
director · ~53y · appointed 2019-02-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ASHCROFT CAMERON SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-11-25 · resigned 1996-11-26
Resigned
ASHCROFT CAMERON NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1996-11-25 · resigned 1996-11-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (82 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-02
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-11-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-07-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-07-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-07-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-07-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-24