ABA-TEXT (UK) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03493406 · ltd · incorporated 1998-01-15

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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Net worth

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Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Combined office administrative service activities

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

71 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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 Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-01-31	2024-01-31
Average employees	1	100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-10-24
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2022-10-19
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2021-10-13
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2016-01-21
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1998-01-16
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HALLIWELL, Nicholas James appointed
secretary
1998-01-16
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HALLIWELL, Nicholas James appointed
director
1998-01-16
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MILEGO CAMPOS, Maria Elena appointed
director
1998-01-16
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FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
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1998-01-16
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FNCS LIMITED resigned
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1998-01-15
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Company incorporated
As ABA-TEXT (UK) LIMITED
1998-01-15
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FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
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1998-01-15
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FNCS LIMITED appointed
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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 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Nicholas James Halliwell Individual · British · DOB 11/1963 · age 63	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Miss Maria Elena Milego Campos Individual · Spanish · DOB 05/1967 · age 59	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated1998-01-15

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC82110 — Combined office administrative service activities

Registered office

13 Clifton Road

Exeter

Devon

EX1 2BR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-10-31

Last made up to: 2025-01-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-27

Last: 2026-01-13

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

HALLIWELL, Nicholas James→

secretary · appointed 1998-01-16

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Active

HALLIWELL, Nicholas James→

director · ~63y · appointed 1998-01-16

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Active

MILEGO CAMPOS, Maria Elena→

director · ~59y · appointed 1998-01-16

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Active

FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-01-15 · resigned 1998-01-16

Resigned

FNCS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-01-15 · resigned 1998-01-16

Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

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2024-10-14

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2024-01-16

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