CAWSTON PRESS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04019196 · ltd · incorporated 2000-06-21

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

£21.91M

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10320

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

11070SIC 11070
46341SIC 46341

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 25.8y

35/100

too messy

Refinance path is blocked by complexity. Rethink structure or expect bespoke, expensive terms.

· Oldest live charge is 25.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

12 officers (6 active, 12 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

3 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

14 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

129 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Turnover	£21.91M	£20.31M
Gross profit	£7.63M	—
Operating profit	£616.5k	—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2025-08-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-07-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-07-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-10-24
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-10-06
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2022-10-06
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-07-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-07-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-14
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-07-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2021-05-07
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2021-05-07
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-04-23
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-04-21
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-04-21
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-04-09
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HARGRAVES, Andrew James appointed
director
2021-04-09
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BEART, Nicholas Anthony resigned
director
2020-08-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2020-01-18
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Charge satisfied #1
2018-06-12
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KEARNS, Stephen appointed
director
2017-02-27
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DUNN, Alyson appointed
secretary
2017-02-27
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AFP SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2015-11-16
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DUNN, Simon Matthew resigned
director
2013-08-13
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UNWIN, Stephen Edward resigned
secretary
2013-08-13
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AFP SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2012-08-31
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
2011-06-30
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KENDALL, William Bruce appointed
director
2011-06-30
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PALMER, Mark Richard appointed
director
2011-06-30
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BEART, Nicholas Anthony appointed
director
2000-09-25
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lombard Natwest Factors Limited
2000-09-20
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2000-07-10
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UNWIN, Stephen Edward appointed
director
2000-07-10
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SLEIGHT, Paul Thomas resigned
secretary
2000-07-10
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UNWIN, Stephen Edward appointed
secretary
2000-07-10
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CAMPBELL, Jonathan Philip Gainsford resigned
director
2000-07-10
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DUNN, Simon Matthew appointed
director
2000-06-21
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Company incorporated
As CAWSTON PRESS LIMITED
2000-06-21
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SLEIGHT, Paul Thomas appointed
secretary
2000-06-21
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CAMPBELL, Jonathan Philip Gainsford appointed
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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Stephen Edward Unwin Individual · British · DOB 09/1956 · age 70	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016
Mr Mark Richard Palmer Individual · British · DOB 05/1973 · age 53	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016
William Bruce Kendall Individual · British · DOB 08/1961 · age 65	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Nicholas Anthony Beartceased 09/04/2021· significant influence

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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

Incorporated2000-06-21

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10320 — SIC 10320

Registered office

Timsons Business Centre

Bath Road

Kettering

Northants

NN16 8NQ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-24

Last: 2025-07-10