CLASSIC ACOUSTICS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03608908 · ltd · incorporated 1998-08-03
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 27.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£452.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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 (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
3 live charges · oldest 27.4y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 27.4 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: 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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)Positive net assets
Net assets £452,128
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
£452k
↑ 1.9% YoY
Current Assets
£218k
↓ 6.6% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)| Metric | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £452.1k | £443.8k |
| Current assets | £218.2k | £233.8k |
| Net assets | £452.1k | £443.8k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-26📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-10-13➕WILLIAMS, Lee Alan appointeddirector
- 2022-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-05-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-05-28📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-12-11📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2019-12-10📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2019-05-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-11-14📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2018-08-31➖COLLINS, Jane resignedsecretary
- 2018-05-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-22📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2017-01-06🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2016-07-18🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1999-02-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1998-08-03🏢Company incorporatedAs CLASSIC ACOUSTICS LIMITED
- 1998-08-03➕COLLINS, Paul appointeddirector
- 1998-08-03➕COLLINS, Jane appointedsecretary
- 1998-08-03➕ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-08-03➖ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-08-03➕AR NOMINEES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1998-08-03➖AR NOMINEES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 66 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. 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
cleanNo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Paul Collins Individual · British · DOB 12/1960 · age 66 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 01/06/2016 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-08-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Registered office
B7 And B7a Haldane
Halesfield
Telford
Shropshire
TF7 4QN
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-06
Last: 2025-09-22
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
COLLINS, Paul→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 1998-08-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WILLIAMS, Lee Alan→
Activedirector · ~50y · appointed 2022-10-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
COLLINS, Jane→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 2018-08-31
ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 1998-08-03
AR NOMINEES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-08-03 · resigned 1998-08-03
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 06/01/2017 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 18/07/2016 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 26/02/1999 | — |
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Recent filings (74 total)
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2025-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2025-05-29
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2024-10-03
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2024-05-23
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2023-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2023-05-30
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-10-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-05-27
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2021-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2021-05-28
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2020-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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2020-05-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-05-28