AARON MANUFACTURING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03800136 · ltd · incorporated 1999-07-02

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 Dec 2024

Net worth

£1.01M

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Machining

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

77 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,007,274

Net assets shrinking

Down £3,766 YoY

Cash YoY

-14%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£527k

↓ 14% YoY

Net Worth

£1.0m

~ YoY

Current Assets

£977k

↓ 6.0% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£1.03M	£1.05M
Current assets	£977.2k	£1.04M
Cash	£527.3k	£614.1k
Debtors	£408.7k	£383.2k
Net assets	£1.01M	£1.01M

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 capital
• 1 resolution

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-01-21
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capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2026-01-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-01-12
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-12
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-12
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-07-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-26
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second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2024-04-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-09
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-08-09
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capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-08-09
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-07-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-28
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-07-28
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-06-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-08-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2004-01-21
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PICKFORD, Paul William resigned
director
2003-03-24
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PICKFORD, Paul William appointed
director
1999-07-02
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Company incorporated
As AARON MANUFACTURING LIMITED
1999-07-02
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COULLING, Leigh Edward appointed
secretary
1999-07-02
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COULLING, Aaron John appointed
director
1999-07-02
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COULLING, Carol Anne appointed
director
1999-07-02
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COULLING, John Leslie appointed
director
1999-07-02
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COULLING, Leigh Edward appointed
director
1999-07-02
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CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-07-02
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CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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.)

Group structure

3am Holdings Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

🏛️

3am Holdings Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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AARON MANUFACTURING LIMITED

This company · 03800136

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
3am Holdings Ltd Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	12/01/2026

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Leigh Edward Coullingceased 12/01/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence
Mr Aaron John Coullingceased 12/01/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence

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

Incorporated1999-07-02

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC25620 — Machining

Registered office

Unit K 25/27 Willis Way

Poole

Dorset

BH15 3TD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-16

Last: 2025-07-02