ABSOLUTELY PUBLISHING & MEDIA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03487304 · ltd · incorporated 1997-12-30
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with leveraged stack — refinance / partial-release angle.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Multiple lenders to manage; inter-creditor friction and partial-release cost possible.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£2.47M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Public houses and bars
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -35% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 28.2y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
91 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,472,225
Cash YoY
-35%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£44k
↓ 35% YoY
Net Worth
£2.5m
↑ 1.6% YoY
Current Assets
£132k
↓ 5.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£494k£989k£1.5m£2.0m£2.5mMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-302024-05-30
Total assets£2.91M£2.92M
Current assets£131.5k£138.5k
Cash£44.0k£67.6k
Debtors£29.5k£19.3k
Net assets£2.47M£2.43M

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-27
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  2. 2026-02-14
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  3. 2026-02-02
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  4. 2026-01-16
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    GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley resigned
    secretary
  5. 2025-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2024-04-03
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  7. 2024-02-29
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  8. 2023-01-04
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  9. 2022-02-21
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  10. 2021-08-23
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  11. 2020-10-21
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  12. 2019-08-08
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  13. 2019-01-02
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  14. 2018-09-17
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  15. 2018-09-13
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    MELVIN-BATH, James Henry Douglas appointed
    director
  16. 2018-08-16
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  17. 2018-01-08
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  18. 2017-08-15
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  19. 2016-05-20
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  20. 2016-05-20
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  21. 2016-05-20
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  22. 2015-12-23
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    GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley resigned
    director
  23. 2014-10-23
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    Charge satisfied #1
  24. 2011-12-19
    ➖
    GREEN, Andrew resigned
    director
  25. 2007-02-08
    ➕
    GREEN, Andrew appointed
    director
  26. 2001-06-28
    ➕
    GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley appointed
    secretary
  27. 2001-06-28
    ➖
    MELVIN BATH, Dawn Patricia resigned
    secretary
  28. 2001-06-28
    ➕
    GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley appointed
    director
  29. 2001-06-28
    ➖
    KAVANAGH, Caroline Jane resigned
    director
  30. 1999-01-14
    ➕
    MELVIN BATH, Dawn Patricia appointed
    secretary
  31. 1998-12-17
    ➖
    AWDRY, Vere Charles resigned
    secretary
  32. 1998-03-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  33. 1998-03-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Davenham Trade Finance Limited
  34. 1998-02-23
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    MELVIN BATH, Dawn Patricia appointed
    director
  35. 1997-12-30
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    Company incorporated
    As ABSOLUTELY PUBLISHING & MEDIA LIMITED
  36. 1997-12-30
    ➕
    AWDRY, Vere Charles appointed
    secretary
  37. 1997-12-30
    ➕
    KAVANAGH, Caroline Jane appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
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 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

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 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Dawn Patricia Melvin Bath
Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-12-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56302 — Public houses and bars

Registered office

Office 4 Sunningend Business Centre
22 Lansdown Industrial Estate
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL51 8PL
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-13
Last: 2025-12-30

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

MELVIN BATH, Dawn Patricia→
director · ~60y · appointed 1998-02-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MELVIN-BATH, James Henry Douglas→
director · ~34y · appointed 2018-09-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
AWDRY, Vere Charles→
secretary · appointed 1997-12-30 · resigned 1998-12-17
Resigned
GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley→
secretary · appointed 2001-06-28 · resigned 2026-01-16
Resigned
MELVIN BATH, Dawn Patricia→
secretary · appointed 1999-01-14 · resigned 2001-06-28
Resigned
GOLDSMITH, Ronald Stanley→
director · ~94y · appointed 2001-06-28 · resigned 2015-12-23
Resigned
GREEN, Andrew→
director · ~57y · appointed 2007-02-08 · resigned 2011-12-19
Resigned
KAVANAGH, Caroline Jane→
director · ~72y · appointed 1997-12-30 · resigned 2001-06-28
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

5
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property20/05/2016—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property20/05/2016—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property20/05/2016—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property30/03/1998—
satisfied
Davenham Trade Finance
Davenham Trade Finance Limited
Debenture1 property30/03/199823/10/2014
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Recent filings (91 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-27
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2026-02-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-04
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-03
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-02-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-05
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2021-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-04