24X LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04049401 · 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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 20.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other information technology service activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 20.8y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 20.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

91 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Average employees	400	400

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

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2026-01-26
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HILLMAN, Debra resigned
director
2026-01-26
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officers · TM01
2025-07-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-29
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accounts · AA
2023-06-30
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accounts · AA
2022-06-28
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accounts · AA
2021-07-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-01-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-11-26
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mortgage · MR04
2018-11-26
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Charge satisfied #1
2018-01-10
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accounts · AA
2017-01-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2016-08-04
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officers · CH03
2016-08-04
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officers · CH01
2016-01-14
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accounts · AA
2008-04-02
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AVEN, Knut resigned
director
2005-07-08
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited
2004-04-30
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STRONG, Kevin Howard appointed
secretary
2004-04-15
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THOMAS EGGAR SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2001-01-11
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CASWILL, Gregory Spencer appointed
director
2001-01-11
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JEARUM, Mark appointed
director
2001-01-11
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AVEN, Knut appointed
director
2001-01-05
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STRONG, Kevin Howard resigned
secretary
2000-10-10
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STRONG, Kevin Howard appointed
secretary
2000-08-03
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Company incorporated
As 24X LIMITED
2000-08-03
➕
STRONG, Kevin Howard appointed
director
2000-08-03
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WILSON, David John appointed
director
2000-08-03
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-08-03
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-08-03
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THOMAS EGGAR SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2000-08-03
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HILLMAN, Debra 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

-4 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 79 — 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 79 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David John Wilson Individual · British · DOB 10/1957 · age 69	25–50%	—	sig. influence25-50% shares · significant influence	03/08/2016
Mr Kevin Howard Strong Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66	25–50%	—	sig. influence25-50% shares · significant influence	03/08/2016

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

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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

Incorporated2000-08-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

24x House 28 Ferring Street

Ferring

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 5HJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-29

Last: 2025-08-15