A A W CONTROL SYSTEMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03339802 · ltd · incorporated 1997-03-25
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 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: Other information technology service activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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
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
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
78 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 · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees600600

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-07-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-10-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2021-10-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2021-10-01
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  8. 2021-10-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2021-10-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2021-09-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-04-02
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2020-04-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2020-04-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2020-04-02
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  16. 2020-04-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2019-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 1997-10-06
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    ATKINS, Carol Bettina appointed
    secretary
  19. 1997-10-06
    ➕
    ATKINS, Nicholas Julian appointed
    director
  20. 1997-10-06
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    B H COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  21. 1997-03-25
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    Company incorporated
    As A A W CONTROL SYSTEMS LIMITED
  22. 1997-03-25
    ➕
    ATKINS, Carol Bettina appointed
    director
  23. 1997-03-25
    ➕
    B H COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary

Owner dependency

84/100
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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +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 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 29 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Nicholas Julian Atkins
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Carol Bettina Atkins
Individual · British · DOB 11/1963 · age 63
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
Incorporated1997-03-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

2 Old Bath Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 1QL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-08
Last: 2026-03-25

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ATKINS, Carol Bettina→
secretary · appointed 1997-10-06
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Active
ATKINS, Carol Bettina→
director · ~63y · appointed 1997-03-25
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Active
ATKINS, Nicholas Julian→
director · ~63y · appointed 1997-10-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
B H COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-03-25 · resigned 1997-10-06
Resigned

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Recent filings (78 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-10-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-10-01
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2021-10-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-10-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-16