ALL TYPE VALVES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03726030 · ltd · incorporated 1999-03-03
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 16.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46740
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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

2 live charges · oldest 16.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.6 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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
68 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.

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
Average employees700700

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-31
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  2. 2024-12-31
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  3. 2023-12-28
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  4. 2022-12-30
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  5. 2021-12-28
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  6. 2021-09-29
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  7. 2021-09-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  8. 2021-03-12
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  9. 2019-12-30
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  10. 2018-12-29
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  11. 2017-12-05
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  12. 2016-12-14
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  13. 2016-03-07
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  14. 2015-12-16
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  15. 2015-03-04
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  16. 2014-12-18
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  17. 2009-12-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 2000-03-03
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    WHITEHEAD, Diane Patricia appointed
    director
  19. 1999-11-10
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    JAMES, Vincent Edward resigned
    director
  20. 1999-03-03
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    Company incorporated
    As ALL TYPE VALVES LIMITED
  21. 1999-03-03
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    WHITEHEAD, Gary appointed
    secretary
  22. 1999-03-03
    ➕
    WHITEHEAD, Gary appointed
    director
  23. 1999-03-03
    ➕
    JAMES, Vincent Edward appointed
    director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • 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
Mr Gary Whitehead
Individual · British · DOB 03/1966 · age 60
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Diane Patricia Whitehead
Individual · British · DOB 03/1970 · age 56
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1999-03-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46740 — SIC 46740

Registered office

Unit 5 Ebbsfleet Business Park
Northfleet
Gravesend
Kent
DA11 9DZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-17
Last: 2026-03-03

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

WHITEHEAD, Gary→
secretary · appointed 1999-03-03
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Active
WHITEHEAD, Diane Patricia→
director · ~56y · appointed 2000-03-03
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Active
WHITEHEAD, Gary→
director · ~60y · appointed 1999-03-03
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Active
JAMES, Vincent Edward→
director · ~51y · appointed 1999-03-03 · resigned 1999-11-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property27/09/2021—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Legal charge1 property22/12/2009—
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Recent filings (68 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
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2025-12-31
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2025-03-21
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accounts · AA
2024-12-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-15
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accounts · AA
2023-12-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-10
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accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-28
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-12-30