ALDA HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03712996 · ltd · incorporated 1999-02-12
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
£130.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -39% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 24.8y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 3 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
86 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £130,172
Net assets shrinking
Down £26,595 YoY
Cash YoY
-39%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£7k
↓ 39% YoY
Net Worth
£130k
↓ 17% YoY
Current Assets
£166k
~ YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£34k£67k£101k£134k£168kSept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Total assets£171.1k£207.2k
Current assets£166.3k£167.7k
Cash£6.6k£10.7k
Debtors£159.7k£157.0k
Net assets£130.2k£156.8k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-06-28
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  3. 2023-06-29
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  4. 2022-09-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2022-09-14
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  6. 2022-09-14
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    officers · CH01
  7. 2022-09-14
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2022-09-13
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    HARRIS, Wendy appointed
    secretary
  9. 2022-09-13
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    BRYDON, Alan Gilbert resigned
    secretary
  10. 2022-09-13
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  11. 2022-09-13
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    officers · TM02
  12. 2022-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  13. 2021-06-29
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  14. 2020-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  15. 2019-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-08-31
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    officers · AP01
  18. 2017-08-30
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    BRYDON, Carol appointed
    director
  19. 2017-06-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2012-06-12
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    BRUNNSCHWEILER, David resigned
    director
  21. 2003-05-31
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    BRYDON, Alan Gilbert appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-05-31
    ➖
    HAMER, Andrew Mark resigned
    secretary
  23. 2001-08-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
  24. 2000-06-01
    ➕
    HAMER, Andrew Mark appointed
    secretary
  25. 2000-05-31
    ➖
    BRYDON, Alan Gilbert resigned
    secretary
  26. 1999-02-18
    ➕
    BRYDON, Alan Gilbert appointed
    director
  27. 1999-02-18
    ➕
    BRYDON, Alan Gilbert appointed
    secretary
  28. 1999-02-18
    ➖
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1999-02-18
    ➕
    BRUNNSCHWEILER, David appointed
    director
  30. 1999-02-18
    ➖
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  31. 1999-02-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ALDA HOLDINGS LIMITED
  32. 1999-02-12
    ➕
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 1999-02-12
    ➕
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-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 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 67. 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 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Alan Gilbert Brydon
Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting06/04/2016
Carol Brydon
Individual · British · DOB 11/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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
Incorporated1999-02-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

Oakley House 1
Hungerford Road
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD3 3AL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-26
Last: 2026-02-12

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

HARRIS, Wendy→
secretary · appointed 2022-09-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRYDON, Alan Gilbert→
director · ~65y · appointed 1999-02-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRYDON, Carol→
director · ~67y · appointed 2017-08-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRYDON, Alan Gilbert→
secretary · appointed 2003-05-31 · resigned 2022-09-13
Resigned
BRYDON, Alan Gilbert→
secretary · appointed 1999-02-18 · resigned 2000-05-31
Resigned
HAMER, Andrew Mark→
secretary · appointed 2000-06-01 · resigned 2003-05-31
Resigned
HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-02-12 · resigned 1999-02-18
Resigned
BRUNNSCHWEILER, David→
director · ~100y · appointed 1999-02-18 · resigned 2012-06-12
Resigned
HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-02-12 · resigned 1999-02-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
Debenture1 property13/08/2001—
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Recent filings (86 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-14
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-14
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2022-09-13
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-09-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-15