APRINA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03767377 · ltd · incorporated 1999-05-10
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 May 2025
Net worth
£-8.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 81/100 (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 (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
77 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £8,408
Cash YoY
-17%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£2k
↓ 17% YoY
Net Worth
-£8k
↓ 70% YoY
Current Assets
£11k
↓ 27% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£8k-£4k£742£5k£10k£14kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£-8.4k£-5.0k
Current assets£10.5k£14.5k
Cash£1.9k£2.3k
Debtors£4.4k£6.7k
Net assets£-8.4k£-5.0k

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.

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 (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-10-08
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  3. 2023-09-20
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-05
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  5. 2022-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2021-08-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-08-02
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2021-04-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-09-13
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-07-27
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-05-31
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2018-05-30
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  13. 2018-05-30
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  14. 2018-05-30
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  15. 2018-05-30
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2018-05-15
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  17. 1999-06-14
    ➕
    TINDALL, Ruth Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  18. 1999-06-14
    ➕
    TINDALL, Ruth Elizabeth appointed
    director
  19. 1999-06-14
    ➕
    WILKINSON, Susan Pauline appointed
    director
  20. 1999-05-25
    ➖
    HIGHSTONE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1999-05-25
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    HIGHSTONE DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 1999-05-10
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    Company incorporated
    As APRINA LIMITED
  23. 1999-05-10
    ➕
    HIGHSTONE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1999-05-10
    ➕
    HIGHSTONE DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +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.

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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Ruth Elizabeth Tindall
Individual · British · DOB 07/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Susan Pauline Wilkinson
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1999-05-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC47710 — Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores

Registered office

Horley Green House Horley Green Road
Claremount
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX3 6AS

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-24
Last: 2026-05-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

TINDALL, Ruth Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 1999-06-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TINDALL, Ruth Elizabeth→
director · ~61y · appointed 1999-06-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILKINSON, Susan Pauline→
director · ~63y · appointed 1999-06-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HIGHSTONE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-05-10 · resigned 1999-05-25
Resigned
HIGHSTONE DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-05-10 · resigned 1999-05-25
Resigned

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Recent filings (77 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-08-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-13