ARROW COURT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03489766 · ltd · incorporated 1998-01-07
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 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 business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 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
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees2200

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-24
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-01
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    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  3. 2024-11-18
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-02-29
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-02-27
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-02-26
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  9. 2019-02-28
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  10. 2018-02-28
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  11. 2017-02-28
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  12. 2016-02-26
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-01-07
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-02-27
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-01-08
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1998-06-17
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    WILLIAMS, Llewelyn Douglas resigned
    director
  17. 1998-03-25
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Mary appointed
    secretary
  18. 1998-03-25
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, David James appointed
    director
  19. 1998-03-25
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Mary appointed
    director
  20. 1998-03-25
    ➖
    CREDITREFORM SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1998-03-25
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Llewelyn Douglas appointed
    director
  22. 1998-03-25
    ➖
    CREDITREFORM LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1998-01-07
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    Company incorporated
    As ARROW COURT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LIMITED
  24. 1998-01-07
    ➕
    CREDITREFORM SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1998-01-07
    ➕
    CREDITREFORM LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-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 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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 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 David James Williams
Individual · British · DOB 02/1952 · age 74
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Elizabeth Mary Williams
Individual · British · DOB 01/1958 · age 68
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1998-01-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

1 Knights Court Archers Way
Battlefield Enterprise Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY1 3GA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-21
Last: 2026-01-07

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Mary→
secretary · appointed 1998-03-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILLIAMS, David James→
director · ~74y · appointed 1998-03-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Mary→
director · ~68y · appointed 1998-03-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CREDITREFORM SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-01-07 · resigned 1998-03-25
Resigned
WILLIAMS, Llewelyn Douglas→
director · ~105y · appointed 1998-03-25 · resigned 1998-06-17
Resigned
CREDITREFORM LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-01-07 · resigned 1998-03-25
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-28
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2025-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-07