AARDVARK EQUIPMENT LTD

🌳Matureactive

03735995 · ltd · incorporated 1999-03-18

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£117.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 28990

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

45310SIC 45310

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

63 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £117,812

Cash YoY

+1802%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£48k

↑ 1802% YoY

Net Worth

£118k

↑ 1.6% YoY

Current Assets

£139k

↑ 105% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£117.8k	£116.0k
Current assets	£139.2k	£67.8k
Cash	£48.1k	£2.5k
Debtors	£90.8k	£65.0k
Net assets	£117.8k	£116.0k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-01-13
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2024-12-27
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2022-12-29
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2020-12-30
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2019-12-28
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2018-12-28
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2017-11-21
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2016-12-30
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2016-03-22
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2015-12-30
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accounts · AA
2015-04-02
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2014-11-12
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accounts · AA
2014-03-25
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1999-03-18
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Company incorporated
As AARDVARK EQUIPMENT LTD
1999-03-18
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BEAL, Paul William appointed
secretary
1999-03-18
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BEAL, Bridgette appointed
director
1999-03-18
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BEAL, Paul William appointed
director
1999-03-18
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FIRST SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-03-18
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FIRST SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-03-18
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FIRST DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1999-03-18
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FIRST DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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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 63 — approaching natural succession window.
+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 63. 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Paul William Beal Individual · British · DOB 12/1963 · age 63	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated1999-03-18

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC28990 — SIC 28990

Registered office

Armoury House Armoury Road

West Bergholt

Colchester

Essex

CO6 3JP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-11

Last: 2026-03-28

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BEAL, Paul William→

secretary · appointed 1999-03-18

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Active

BEAL, Bridgette→

director · ~56y · appointed 1999-03-18

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Active

BEAL, Paul William→

director · ~63y · appointed 1999-03-18

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Active

FIRST SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-03-18 · resigned 1999-03-18

Resigned

FIRST DIRECTORS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-03-18 · resigned 1999-03-18

Resigned

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