A.C.TOURS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03775975 · ltd · incorporated 1999-05-24
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.
Why now
Window closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy cheaply — 3 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.
  • · Hygiene score: 62 → 82
  • · Deal-killer verdict: workable → high-friction
  • · Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • · Bankability: 70 → 80
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 20.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 1 negative.

  • ↓Deal-killer verdict: workable → high-friction
  • ↑Opportunity score: 72 → 80
  • ↑Hygiene score: 62 → 82
  • ↑Bankability: 70 → 80
  • ·Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Travel agency activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). 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

1 live charge · oldest 20.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 20.6 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 (87/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
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
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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees650050003800

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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
7
filings
  • • 3 annual-return
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
8
filings
  • • 3 annual-return
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
8
filings
  • • 3 annual-return
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-17
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  2. 2026-07-16
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  3. 2026-07-16
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  4. 2026-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  5. 2026-07-06
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  6. 2026-06-22
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  7. 2026-05-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2025-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2024-05-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-05-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-04-15
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  12. 2023-01-11
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  13. 2022-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-06-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  16. 2021-06-01
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2021-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2020-09-09
    ➕
    BARRY, Paul Daniel appointed
    director
  19. 2020-09-09
    ➖
    LINDOP, Malcolm James resigned
    director
  20. 2017-07-14
    ➕
    HEYNE, Karl Heinrich Bernhard, Mr. appointed
    director
  21. 2016-10-25
    ➖
    HARRIS, Andrew Clifford John resigned
    director
  22. 2016-02-25
    ➕
    RUSSELL, Robert John appointed
    director
  23. 2016-02-25
    ➕
    LINDOP, Malcolm James appointed
    director
  24. 2013-11-12
    ➖
    CARVER, Caroline resigned
    secretary
  25. 2013-11-12
    ➖
    CARVER, Caroline resigned
    director
  26. 2005-12-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  27. 1999-05-24
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As A.C.TOURS LIMITED
  28. 1999-05-24
    ➕
    CARVER, Caroline appointed
    secretary
  29. 1999-05-24
    ➕
    CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1999-05-24
    ➖
    CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  31. 1999-05-24
    ➕
    CARVER, Caroline appointed
    director
  32. 1999-05-24
    ➕
    HARRIS, Andrew Clifford John appointed
    director
  33. 1999-05-24
    ➕
    CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  34. 1999-05-24
    ➖
    CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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.)

Group structure

The Ruslin Travel Company Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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The Ruslin Travel Company Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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A.C.TOURS LIMITED
This company · 03775975

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
The Ruslin Travel Company Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated1999-05-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC79110 — Travel agency activities

Registered office

Level 5a Maple House
149 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7NF
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-07
Last: 2026-05-24

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

BARRY, Paul Daniel→
director · ~65y · appointed 2020-09-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEYNE, Karl Heinrich Bernhard, Mr.→
director · ~55y · appointed 2017-07-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RUSSELL, Robert John→
director · ~49y · appointed 2016-02-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CARVER, Caroline→
secretary · appointed 1999-05-24 · resigned 2013-11-12
Resigned
CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-05-24 · resigned 1999-05-24
Resigned
CARVER, Caroline→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-05-24 · resigned 2013-11-12
Resigned
HARRIS, Andrew Clifford John→
director · ~78y · appointed 1999-05-24 · resigned 2016-10-25
Resigned
LINDOP, Malcolm James→
director · ~56y · appointed 2016-02-25 · resigned 2020-09-09
Resigned
CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-05-24 · resigned 1999-05-24
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property16/12/2005—
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Recent filings (86 total)

annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2026-07-17
annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2026-07-16
annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2026-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-08
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-07-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-06-22
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-01
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2023-04-15