AIRFLOW GROUP LTD.

🌳Matureactive
03335255 · ltd · incorporated 1997-03-18
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
No PSC data returned
40
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees6700

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
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-12-16
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  3. 2023-12-21
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  4. 2022-12-22
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  5. 2021-12-22
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  6. 2020-12-14
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  7. 2019-12-13
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  8. 2018-12-13
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2017-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-04-12
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  12. 2015-12-22
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  13. 2015-03-23
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2014-12-24
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-03-24
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1999-06-01
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    FROST, Lianne Berenice appointed
    secretary
  17. 1999-06-01
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    FROST, James Stephen appointed
    director
  18. 1999-06-01
    ➕
    FROST, Lianne Berenice appointed
    director
  19. 1999-06-01
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    FROST, James Duncan resigned
    secretary
  20. 1999-06-01
    ➖
    FROST, James Duncan resigned
    director
  21. 1999-06-01
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    VENABLES, John Arthur resigned
    director
  22. 1997-03-18
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    Company incorporated
    As AIRFLOW GROUP LTD.
  23. 1997-03-18
    ➕
    FROST, James Duncan appointed
    secretary
  24. 1997-03-18
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1997-03-18
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 1997-03-18
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    FROST, James Duncan appointed
    director
  27. 1997-03-18
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    VENABLES, John Arthur appointed
    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 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 67. 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 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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
Incorporated1997-03-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43220 — Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation

Registered office

Chester House Lloyd Drive
Cheshire Oaks Business Park
Ellesmere Port
Cheshire
CH65 9HQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-01
Last: 2026-03-18

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

FROST, Lianne Berenice→
secretary · appointed 1999-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FROST, James Stephen→
director · ~67y · appointed 1999-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FROST, Lianne Berenice→
director · ~58y · appointed 1999-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FROST, James Duncan→
secretary · appointed 1997-03-18 · resigned 1999-06-01
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-03-18 · resigned 1997-03-18
Resigned
FROST, James Duncan→
director · ~97y · appointed 1997-03-18 · resigned 1999-06-01
Resigned
VENABLES, John Arthur→
director · ~92y · appointed 1997-03-18 · resigned 1999-06-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-03-27