C & S ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03440003 · ltd · incorporated 1997-09-26

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 28.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). 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

2 live charges · oldest 28.4y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 28.4 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: medium (77/100)

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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

86 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Average employees	2100	2300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-02-19
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2025-01-06
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accounts · AA
2024-02-13
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accounts · AA
2023-01-30
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accounts · AA
2022-01-04
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accounts · AA
2021-06-02
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-05-28
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capital · SH06
2021-05-18
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officers · TM01
2021-05-18
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officers · TM01
2021-05-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-05-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-05-14
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TAYLOR, Anthony resigned
director
2021-05-14
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TAYLOR, Mercedes resigned
director
2021-03-11
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accounts · AA
2020-09-26
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address · AD01
2020-09-26
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address · AD01
2020-09-26
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officers · CH01
2020-09-26
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officers · CH01
2020-02-22
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accounts · AA
2015-04-29
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1998-06-22
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TAYLOR, Anthony appointed
director
1998-06-22
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TAYLOR, Mercedes appointed
director
1998-01-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1997-09-26
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Company incorporated
As C & S ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE LIMITED
1997-09-26
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GRAYDON, Clare Amanda appointed
secretary
1997-09-26
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GRAYDON, Clare Amanda appointed
director
1997-09-26
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GRAYDON, Simon appointed
director
1997-09-26
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1997-09-26
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-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 61 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Clare Amanda Graydon Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	14/05/2021
Mr Simon Graydon Individual · British · DOB 12/1965 · age 61	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	07/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Anthony Taylorceased 14/05/2021· significant influence

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

Incorporated1997-09-26

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

Units 1&2 Millfield Road

Millfield Industrial Estate

Chard

Somerset

TA20 2DJ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-10

Last: 2025-09-26

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

GRAYDON, Clare Amanda→

secretary · appointed 1997-09-26

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Active

GRAYDON, Clare Amanda→

director · ~61y · appointed 1997-09-26

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Active

GRAYDON, Simon→

director · ~61y · appointed 1997-09-26

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Active

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-09-26 · resigned 1997-09-26

Resigned

TAYLOR, Anthony→

director · ~75y · appointed 1998-06-22 · resigned 2021-05-14

Resigned

TAYLOR, Mercedes→

director · ~73y · appointed 1998-06-22 · resigned 2021-05-14

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	29/04/2015	—
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	27/01/1998	—

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