AMAZON WORLD LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03534734 · ltd · incorporated 1998-03-25

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

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 27.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2026

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 79). 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

1 live charge · oldest 27.1y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 27.1 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: high (80/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

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

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

68 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 · FRS 102

Metric	2026-03-31	2025-03-31

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-04-01
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2025-04-04
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2024-04-25
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2023-04-27
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accounts · AA
2022-04-05
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2021-04-22
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2020-04-15
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2019-04-04
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accounts · AA
2018-04-17
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accounts · AA
2017-05-10
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accounts · AA
2016-04-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2016-04-05
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2015-04-14
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accounts · AA
2015-04-14
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2014-05-02
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accounts · AA
1999-05-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1999-04-08
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ALLEGRI, Sara Denise resigned
secretary
1999-04-08
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ALLEGRI, Brian Roger resigned
director
1999-04-01
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CURTIS, Derek James appointed
secretary
1999-04-01
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CURTIS, Derek James appointed
director
1999-04-01
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BRETT, Walter resigned
secretary
1998-03-26
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CURTIS, Sandra Joan appointed
director
1998-03-26
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BRETT, Walter appointed
secretary
1998-03-25
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Company incorporated
As AMAZON WORLD LIMITED
1998-03-25
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ALLEGRI, Sara Denise appointed
secretary
1998-03-25
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ALLEGRI, Brian Roger appointed
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 79 — 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 79 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 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Sandra Joan Curtis Individual · British · DOB 07/1949 · age 77	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.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1998-03-25

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

11 Castle Hill

Maidenhead

Berkshire

SL6 4AA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-12-31

Last made up to: 2026-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-18

Last: 2026-03-04

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

CURTIS, Derek James→

secretary · appointed 1999-04-01

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Active

CURTIS, Derek James→

director · ~79y · appointed 1999-04-01

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Active

CURTIS, Sandra Joan→

director · ~77y · appointed 1998-03-26

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Active

ALLEGRI, Sara Denise→

secretary · appointed 1998-03-25 · resigned 1999-04-08

Resigned

BRETT, Walter→

secretary · appointed 1998-03-26 · resigned 1999-04-01

Resigned

ALLEGRI, Brian Roger→

director · ~74y · appointed 1998-03-25 · resigned 1999-04-08

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	Deed of charge over credit balances	1 property	12/05/1999	—

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