ABBOTT FABRICATIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03879465 · ltd · incorporated 1999-11-18

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 2025

Net worth

£100.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 25990

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

62 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £100,846

High leverage

Liabilities are 100% of total assets

Leverage

100%

Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£101k

↑ 27% YoY

Current Assets

£107k

↑ 6.2% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Total assets	£201.6k	£183.6k
Current assets	£106.7k	£100.5k
Net assets	£100.8k	£79.3k

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-03-19
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2025-02-25
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2024-08-12
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2023-07-17
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accounts · AA
2022-09-30
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accounts · AA
2021-09-30
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accounts · AA
2020-09-29
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accounts · AA
2019-08-01
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2018-09-20
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accounts · AA
2017-09-27
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accounts · AA
2016-09-20
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accounts · AA
2015-11-20
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2015-09-16
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2014-11-20
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2014-09-04
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accounts · AA
1999-11-19
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ABBOTT, Michelle Lyn appointed
secretary
1999-11-19
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WHITE ROSE FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-11-18
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Company incorporated
As ABBOTT FABRICATIONS LIMITED
1999-11-18
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ABBOTT, Michelle Lyn appointed
director
1999-11-18
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ABBOTT, Steven Brett appointed
director
1999-11-18
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WHITE ROSE FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

99/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ABBOTT" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Steven Brett Abbott Individual · British · DOB 02/1964 · age 62	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	17/11/2016
Mrs Michelle Lyn Abbott Individual · British · DOB 02/1968 · age 58	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	17/11/2016

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

Incorporated1999-11-18

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

Unit 1 B/C Woodleys Yard

Newton Road, Higham Ferrers

Rushden

Northamptonshire

NN10 8HW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-02

Last: 2025-11-18

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ABBOTT, Michelle Lyn→

secretary · appointed 1999-11-19

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Active

ABBOTT, Michelle Lyn→

director · ~58y · appointed 1999-11-18

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Active

ABBOTT, Steven Brett→

director · ~62y · appointed 1999-11-18

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Active

WHITE ROSE FORMATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-11-18 · resigned 1999-11-19

Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

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accounts · AA

2026-03-19

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-12-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-02-25

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-12-02