ACW CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03771017 · ltd · incorporated 1999-05-14
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 Jun 2025
Net worth
£-5.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other building completion and finishing
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -66% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. 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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
64 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredNegative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £5,834
Cash draining
Cash down 66% YoY
Cash YoY
-66%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£187
↓ 66% YoY
Net Worth
-£6k
↑ 49% YoY
Current Assets
£69k
↑ 14% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £-5.8k | £-11.5k |
| Current assets | £69.3k | £60.6k |
| Cash | £187 | £553 |
| Debtors | £69.1k | £60.1k |
| Net assets | £-5.8k | £-11.5k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-03-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2017-03-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-09-01📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2016-07-01➕WATSON, Julie Ann appointeddirector
- 2016-06-15📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2016-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2015-06-25📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-03-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 1999-05-14🏢Company incorporatedAs ACW CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
- 1999-05-14➕WATSON, Julie Ann appointedsecretary
- 1999-05-14➕WATSON, Alan Cecil appointeddirector
- 1999-05-14➕ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1999-05-14➖ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 68 — 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 candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Alan Cecil Watson Individual · British · DOB 03/1958 · age 68 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Julie Ann Watson Individual · British · DOB 02/1964 · age 62 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-05-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43390 — Other building completion and finishing
Registered office
Beechcroft House
50 Sedgley Road West
Tipton
West Midlands
DY4 8AB
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-28
Last: 2026-05-14
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
Active
WATSON, Alan Cecil→
Activedirector · ~68y · appointed 1999-05-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WATSON, Julie Ann→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2016-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-05-14 · resigned 1999-05-14
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Recent filings (64 total)
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-05-22