BRIDGWATER ELECTRONICS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03808342 · ltd · incorporated 1999-07-16
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 26.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 27900
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). 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 26.7y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.7 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: medium (79/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
69 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-29
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC03
  4. 2023-10-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-03-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-06-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2019-06-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2018-11-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-07-26
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    mortgage · MR05
  13. 2017-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2006-06-20
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    PRITCHARD, Gareth appointed
    director
  16. 2006-06-20
    ➖
    EYLES, Colin John resigned
    director
  17. 1999-10-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  18. 1999-07-16
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    Company incorporated
    As BRIDGWATER ELECTRONICS LIMITED
  19. 1999-07-16
    ➕
    PALMER, Colin Thomas appointed
    secretary
  20. 1999-07-16
    ➕
    PALMER, Colin Thomas appointed
    director
  21. 1999-07-16
    ➕
    BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1999-07-16
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    BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1999-07-16
    ➕
    EYLES, Colin John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

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 69. 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Colin Thomas Palmer
Individual · British · DOB 02/1957 · age 69
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
Gareth Pritchard
Individual
25–50%
—25-50% shares10/03/2017

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-07-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC27900 — SIC 27900

Registered office

Unit 9 Westmans Industrial Estate
Love Lane
Burnham-On-Sea
Somerset
TA8 1EY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-09
Last: 2026-06-25

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

PALMER, Colin Thomas→
secretary · appointed 1999-07-16
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Active
PALMER, Colin Thomas→
director · ~69y · appointed 1999-07-16
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Active
PRITCHARD, Gareth→
director · ~52y · appointed 2006-06-20
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Active
BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-07-16 · resigned 1999-07-16
Resigned
EYLES, Colin John→
director · ~61y · appointed 1999-07-16 · resigned 2006-06-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property23/10/1999—
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Recent filings (69 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-10-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-16
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC03
2024-05-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-10-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-03-17