A J VETERINARY SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04200066 · ltd · incorporated 2001-04-13

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Veterinary activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

63 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	200	200

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-07-18
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2022-08-22
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2021-08-05
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2020-09-01
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2018-09-14
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2017-11-15
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2016-09-13
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2016-04-21
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2015-11-16
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2015-04-16
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2014-04-22
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2001-04-19
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MCHATTIE, Sandra Elizabeth Olive appointed
secretary
2001-04-19
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MCHATTIE, David Alexander Joseph appointed
director
2001-04-19
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MCHATTIE, Sandra Elizabeth Olive appointed
director
2001-04-19
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BLOOMSBURY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
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2001-04-19
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BLOOMSBURY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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2001-04-13
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Company incorporated
As A J VETERINARY SERVICES LIMITED
2001-04-13
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BLOOMSBURY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
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2001-04-13
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BLOOMSBURY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
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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 71 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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 25 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David Alexander Joseph Mchattie Individual · British · DOB 02/1959 · age 67	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/05/2016

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

Incorporated2001-04-13

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC75000 — Veterinary activities

Registered office

6 The Cobbins

Burnham On Crouch

Essex

CM0 8QL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-09

Last: 2026-03-26

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MCHATTIE, Sandra Elizabeth Olive→

secretary · appointed 2001-04-19

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MCHATTIE, David Alexander Joseph→

director · ~67y · appointed 2001-04-19

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MCHATTIE, Sandra Elizabeth Olive→

director · ~71y · appointed 2001-04-19

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Active

BLOOMSBURY SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-04-13 · resigned 2001-04-19

Resigned

BLOOMSBURY DIRECTORS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-04-13 · resigned 2001-04-19

Resigned

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