AEROSOL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03608571 · ltd · incorporated 1998-08-03
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 16.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
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 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 16.1y

60/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Not currently profitable — coverage conversation is a harder sell.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
91 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
75
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
Loss-making
Loss before tax £1,503

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Operating profit£-1.5k£-3.1k
Profit before tax£-1.5k£-3.1k
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

5 signals 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-11
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  4. 2024-03-01
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  5. 2023-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-09-25
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  7. 2022-08-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2022-08-15
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2022-08-15
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2022-08-15
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2022-08-12
    ➕
    BENT, Nicholas James appointed
    director
  12. 2022-08-12
    ➕
    SCHOFIELD, Peter David appointed
    director
  13. 2022-08-12
    ➖
    GRAHAM, Linda Rose resigned
    secretary
  14. 2022-08-12
    ➖
    GRAHAM, Stuart resigned
    director
  15. 2022-08-12
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  16. 2022-08-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  17. 2022-08-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  18. 2022-08-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  19. 2022-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2021-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2020-10-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2019-08-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  23. 2016-04-21
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    Charge satisfied #1
  24. 2010-04-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  25. 2006-12-01
    ➖
    COUNSELL, Lesley resigned
    secretary
  26. 2006-12-01
    ➕
    GRAHAM, Linda Rose appointed
    secretary
  27. 2006-12-01
    ➖
    COUNSELL, John Raymond resigned
    director
  28. 2006-12-01
    ➖
    COUNSELL, Lesley resigned
    director
  29. 1999-09-29
    ➕
    GRAHAM, Stuart appointed
    director
  30. 1998-08-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AEROSOL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
  31. 1998-08-03
    ➕
    COUNSELL, Lesley appointed
    secretary
  32. 1998-08-03
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 1998-08-03
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1998-08-03
    ➕
    COUNSELL, John Raymond appointed
    director
  35. 1998-08-03
    ➕
    COUNSELL, Lesley appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Tetrosyl Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Tetrosyl Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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AEROSOL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
This company · 03608571

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Tetrosyl Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting12/08/2022
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Stuart Grahamceased 12/08/2022· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting
  • Mrs Linda Rose Grahamceased 12/08/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-08-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

Newgate House
Newgate
Rochdale
OL16 1XB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-03
Last: 2025-08-20

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

BENT, Nicholas James→
director · ~53y · appointed 2022-08-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SCHOFIELD, Peter David→
director · ~65y · appointed 2022-08-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COUNSELL, Lesley→
secretary · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 2006-12-01
Resigned
GRAHAM, Linda Rose→
secretary · appointed 2006-12-01 · resigned 2022-08-12
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 1998-08-03
Resigned
COUNSELL, John Raymond→
director · ~73y · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 2006-12-01
Resigned
COUNSELL, Lesley→
director · ~68y · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 2006-12-01
Resigned
GRAHAM, Stuart→
director · ~68y · appointed 1999-09-29 · resigned 2022-08-12
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge—01/03/2024—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property16/04/201021/04/2016
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Recent filings (91 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-20
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-08-15
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-08-15
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-08-15
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-08-15
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-08-12
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-08-12