AKWEL BIRMINGHAM UK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03437265 · ltd · incorporated 1997-09-22

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 18.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

£1.30M

book net assets

Opportunity

72/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 29320

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Special-situation opportunity

Distressed manufacturing with salvageable qualities — special-situations priority.

Opportunity 72/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Resolve: 1 insolvency-related filing on record. Filings relating to insolvency, liquidation, or administration exist in the company's history. Review before proceeding. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (63/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 18.8y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 18.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

18 officers (3 active, 18 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

167 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

72/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Some acquirability indicators.

Risk profile

Some moderate concerns — review 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 £1,297,528

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£902k

Net Worth

£1.3m

Current Assets

£41m

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30
Total assets	£1.30M
Current assets	£40.65M
Cash	£901.6k
Debtors	£39.75M
Net assets	£1.30M

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (56 events)Click to expand

2026-05-29
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accounts · AA
2025-05-22
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capital · SH19
2025-05-22
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-05-16
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legacy
capital · SH20
2025-05-16
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legacy
insolvency · CAP-SS
2025-05-13
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-11-16
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officers · AP03
2022-11-16
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officers · TM01
2022-11-16
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-10-18
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HAMBLY, Leigh appointed
secretary
2022-10-14
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LEDWITCH, David John resigned
secretary
2022-10-14
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LEDWITCH, David John resigned
director
2022-07-13
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-07-13
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Charge satisfied #1
2022-07-01
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-05-19
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-05-06
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WARD, Michael resigned
director
2022-04-08
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accounts · AA
2022-03-22
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legacy
accounts · PARENT_ACC
2022-03-22
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legacy
other · AGREEMENT2
2022-03-22
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legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2017-11-15
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COUTIER, Benoit Cedric appointed
director
2017-11-15
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COUTIER, Roger Marcel resigned
director
2017-11-15
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CREPIAT, Stephane resigned
director
2017-11-15
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WARD, Michael appointed
director
2012-08-30
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LEDWITCH, David John appointed
secretary
2012-08-30
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LEDWITCH, David John appointed
director
2012-07-01
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TABORIN, Henri Jean resigned
secretary
2012-07-01
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TABORIN, Henri Jean resigned
director
2011-03-01
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CREPIAT, Stephane appointed
director
2011-02-28
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GALUS, Dominique resigned
director
2008-07-01
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GALUS, Dominique appointed
director
2008-06-30
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CHABERT, Patrice resigned
director
2007-07-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2005-12-31
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COUTIER, Andre resigned
director
2005-12-14
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CHABERT, Patrice appointed
director
2004-10-13
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COUTIER, Roger Marcel appointed
director
2002-06-11
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TABORIN, Henri Jean appointed
secretary
2002-06-11
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EVERETT COLLINS& LOOSLEY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS resigned
corporate-secretary
2001-09-17
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GALLUCCIO, Emilio resigned
director
2000-09-26
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EVERETT COLLINS& LOOSLEY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS appointed
corporate-secretary
2000-09-26
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VICTORIA SQUARE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2000-01-10
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COUTIER, Andre appointed
director
2000-01-10
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GALLUCCIO, Emilio appointed
director
1999-12-31
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JACKSON, Peter Colyer resigned
director
1999-12-31
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MULLER, Francis resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 56 events

Owner dependency

68/100

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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

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

1 high ·

1 insolvency-related filing on record

high

Filings relating to insolvency, liquidation, or administration exist in the company's history. Review before proceeding.

Evidence: 2025-05-16: legacy

Group structure

Akwel Sa is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Akwel Sa

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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AKWEL BIRMINGHAM UK LIMITED

This company · 03437265

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Akwel Sa Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1997-09-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC29320 — SIC 29320

Registered office

5 5 Westpoint Business Park

Bumpers Farm

Chippenham

Wiltshire

SN14 6RB

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-29

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-06

Last: 2025-09-22

Officers (3 active · 15 resigned)

HAMBLY, Leigh→

secretary · appointed 2022-10-18

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Active

COUTIER, Benoit Cedric→

director · ~48y · appointed 2017-11-15

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Active

AKWEL SA→

corporate-director · appointed 1997-09-22

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Active

LEDWITCH, David John→

secretary · appointed 2012-08-30 · resigned 2022-10-14

Resigned

TABORIN, Henri Jean→

secretary · appointed 2002-06-11 · resigned 2012-07-01

Resigned

EVERETT COLLINS& LOOSLEY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2000-09-26 · resigned 2002-06-11

Resigned

VICTORIA SQUARE SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-09-22 · resigned 2000-09-26

Resigned

CHABERT, Patrice→

director · ~61y · appointed 2005-12-14 · resigned 2008-06-30

Resigned

COUTIER, Andre→

director · ~77y · appointed 2000-01-10 · resigned 2005-12-31

Resigned

COUTIER, Roger Marcel→

director · ~74y · appointed 2004-10-13 · resigned 2017-11-15

Resigned

CREPIAT, Stephane→

director · ~60y · appointed 2011-03-01 · resigned 2017-11-15

Resigned

GALLUCCIO, Emilio→

director · ~81y · appointed 2000-01-10 · resigned 2001-09-17

Resigned

GALUS, Dominique→

director · ~69y · appointed 2008-07-01 · resigned 2011-02-28

Resigned

JACKSON, Peter Colyer→

director · ~93y · appointed 1997-09-22 · resigned 1999-12-31

Resigned

LEDWITCH, David John→

director · ~64y · appointed 2012-08-30 · resigned 2022-10-14

Resigned

MULLER, Francis→

director · ~81y · appointed 1997-09-22 · resigned 1999-12-31

Resigned

TABORIN, Henri Jean→

director · ~79y · appointed 1997-09-22 · resigned 2012-07-01

Resigned

WARD, Michael→

director · ~52y · appointed 2017-11-15 · resigned 2022-05-06

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Debenture	1 property	27/07/2007	13/07/2022

Recent filings (167 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small

accounts · AA

2026-05-29

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-10-02

capital-statement-capital-company-with-date-currency-figure

capital · SH19

2025-05-22

resolution

resolution · RESOLUTIONS

2025-05-22

legacy

capital · SH20

2025-05-16

legacy

insolvency · CAP-SS

2025-05-16

change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended

accounts · AA01

2025-05-13

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-small

accounts · AA

2024-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-09-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-09-25

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-04-17

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2022-12-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-11-22

appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date

officers · AP03

2022-11-16