A. C. FABRICATIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04046152 · ltd · incorporated 2000-08-03
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
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
66 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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 · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees2200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-08-03
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  3. 2025-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-20
    ➖
    CROSSLAND, Jean resigned
    secretary
  6. 2023-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-01-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-08-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2020-04-14
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  11. 2020-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-03-30
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2001-06-30
    ➕
    CROSSLAND, Anthony Bryan, M D appointed
    director
  18. 2001-06-30
    ➕
    CROSSLAND, Jay Aaron appointed
    director
  19. 2001-06-30
    ➕
    CROSSLAND, Jean appointed
    secretary
  20. 2001-06-30
    ➖
    MARSDEN, Susan Elisabeth resigned
    secretary
  21. 2001-06-30
    ➖
    ELLIS, Patricia Anne resigned
    director
  22. 2000-08-03
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    Company incorporated
    As A. C. FABRICATIONS LIMITED
  23. 2000-08-03
    ➕
    MARSDEN, Susan Elisabeth appointed
    secretary
  24. 2000-08-03
    ➕
    ELLIS, Patricia Anne appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 25 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
M D Anthony Bryan Crossland
Individual · British · DOB 06/1957 · age 69
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control01/06/2016

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
Incorporated2000-08-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25110 — Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Registered office

7 Kensington Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 2TX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-29
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-17
Last: 2025-08-03

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

CROSSLAND, Anthony Bryan, M D→
director · ~69y · appointed 2001-06-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CROSSLAND, Jay Aaron→
director · ~43y · appointed 2001-06-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CROSSLAND, Jean→
secretary · appointed 2001-06-30 · resigned 2023-07-20
Resigned
MARSDEN, Susan Elisabeth→
secretary · appointed 2000-08-03 · resigned 2001-06-30
Resigned
ELLIS, Patricia Anne→
director · ~84y · appointed 2000-08-03 · resigned 2001-06-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (66 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-03
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-08-11
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-04-14