ABEL MAGNETS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03671776 · ltd · incorporated 1998-11-23

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 25.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 81). 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 25.9y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 25.9 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

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

85 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

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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 · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	900	900

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2025-07-01
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officers · CH01
2024-09-13
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accounts · AA
2024-05-24
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2024-05-14
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officers · CH01
2023-10-05
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accounts · AA
2022-11-08
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
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accounts · AA
2022-06-27
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address · AD01
2021-06-21
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-21
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officers · AP01
2021-06-18
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2021-06-17
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DODSWORTH, Nathan Jon appointed
director
2020-11-02
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officers · TM01
2020-08-27
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accounts · AA
2020-01-03
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VESSEY, Richard Charles resigned
director
2019-05-21
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accounts · AA
2003-07-17
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BROOKES, John Alan appointed
director
2000-07-06
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1999-06-15
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BROOKES, Mark Geoffrey appointed
director
1999-01-22
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BROOKES, Mark Geoffrey resigned
director
1998-11-23
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Company incorporated
As ABEL MAGNETS LIMITED
1998-11-23
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SATINOFF, Paul Anthony appointed
secretary
1998-11-23
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SATINOFF, Paul Anthony appointed
director
1998-11-23
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REGENTS NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
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1998-11-23
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REGENTS NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1998-11-23
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BROOKES, Mark Geoffrey appointed
director
1998-11-23
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VESSEY, Richard Charles appointed
director
1998-11-23
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REGENTS REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1998-11-23
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REGENTS REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
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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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Mark Geoffrey Brookes Individual · British · DOB 07/1973 · age 53	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	23/11/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1998-11-23

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Henry Bramall & Co Ltd Unit 8, Acorn Business Park

Woodseats Close

Sheffield

S8 0TB

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-23

Last: 2026-05-09