CUMBRIA BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED

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04010956 · ltd · incorporated 2000-06-08
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
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Turnover
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year to Feb 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 46130
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 46730SIC 46730
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 25.9y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (2 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
82 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£0Feb 2024Feb 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-02-282024-02-29
Average employees13001300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-08-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-06-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-08-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-10-22
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  8. 2019-10-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2019-10-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2019-10-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2019-10-07
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    ELLIOT, Jack resigned
    director
  12. 2019-10-07
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    ELLIOT, Luke resigned
    director
  13. 2019-09-02
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  14. 2019-09-02
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  15. 2019-09-02
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  16. 2019-09-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2019-08-28
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    BLYTHE, Paul resigned
    director
  18. 2019-08-28
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    REED, David resigned
    director
  19. 2019-08-01
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  20. 2019-07-31
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    ELLIOT, Jack appointed
    director
  21. 2019-07-31
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    ELLIOT, Luke appointed
    director
  22. 2019-07-31
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  23. 2019-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  24. 2018-07-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  25. 2007-01-31
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    Charge satisfied #2
  26. 2005-08-24
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  27. 2000-07-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  28. 2000-06-08
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    Company incorporated
    As CUMBRIA BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED
  29. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    ELLIOT, Darrell Adrian appointed
    secretary
  30. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    ELLIOT, Darrell Adrian appointed
    director
  31. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 2000-06-08
    ➖
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    BLYTHE, Paul appointed
    director
  34. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    REED, David appointed
    director
  35. 2000-06-08
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  36. 2000-06-08
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

93/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

85/100
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 61. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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

Cumbria Building Supplies Holdings Ltd holds majority control (50-75%). Likely parent but not wholly-owned.

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Cumbria Building Supplies Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares
majority
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CUMBRIA BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED
This company · 04010956

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Cumbria Building Supplies Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
50–75%
—50-75% shares28/08/2019
Mr Darrell Adrian Elliot
Individual · British · DOB 01/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/06/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Paul Blytheceased 28/08/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr David Reedceased 28/08/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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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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
Incorporated2000-06-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46130 — SIC 46130

Registered office

Unit 6 Marconi Road
Burgh Road Industrial Estate
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA2 7NA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-22
Last: 2025-06-08

Officers (2 active · 6 resigned)

ELLIOT, Darrell Adrian→
secretary · appointed 2000-06-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ELLIOT, Darrell Adrian→
director · ~61y · appointed 2000-06-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-06-08 · resigned 2000-06-08
Resigned
BLYTHE, Paul→
director · ~61y · appointed 2000-06-08 · resigned 2019-08-28
Resigned
ELLIOT, Jack→
director · ~34y · appointed 2019-07-31 · resigned 2019-10-07
Resigned
ELLIOT, Luke→
director · ~37y · appointed 2019-07-31 · resigned 2019-10-07
Resigned
REED, David→
director · ~69y · appointed 2000-06-08 · resigned 2019-08-28
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-06-08 · resigned 2000-06-08
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property24/08/200531/01/2007
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property10/07/2000—
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Recent filings (82 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-21
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2019-10-22
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2019-10-08
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2019-10-08