ARI CONSULTANCY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04257410 · ltd · incorporated 2001-07-23
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 22.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Sector: Financial & insurance
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 22.9y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
85 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees300300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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 (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-10-22
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  4. 2024-10-22
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  5. 2024-10-22
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  6. 2024-10-22
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    withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  7. 2024-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-03-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2023-09-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-09-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2004-02-29
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    FAIR, Julie resigned
    director
  17. 2003-08-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Republic Bank (UK) Limited
  18. 2002-07-04
    ➕
    FAIR, Julie appointed
    director
  19. 2001-07-23
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    Company incorporated
    As ARI CONSULTANCY LIMITED
  20. 2001-07-23
    ➕
    ROBINSON, Adrian Mervyn appointed
    secretary
  21. 2001-07-23
    ➕
    DICKENS, Clive Richard appointed
    director
  22. 2001-07-23
    ➕
    O'DRISCOLL, Donnach Joseph appointed
    director
  23. 2001-07-23
    ➕
    ROBINSON, Adrian Mervyn appointed
    director
  24. 2001-07-23
    ➕
    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2001-07-23
    ➖
    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2001-07-23
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    COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2001-07-23
    ➖
    COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  28. 2001-07-23
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    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 2001-07-23
    ➖
    COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

68/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Adrian Robinson
Individual · Irish · DOB 04/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/12/2022
Mr Donnach O'Driscoll
Individual · Irish · DOB 02/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/12/2022
Mr Clive Dickens
Individual · British · DOB 01/1967 · age 59
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/12/2022

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 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
Incorporated2001-07-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

37 Market Square
Witney
OX28 6RE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-06
Last: 2025-07-23

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

ROBINSON, Adrian Mervyn→
secretary · appointed 2001-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DICKENS, Clive Richard→
director · ~59y · appointed 2001-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
O'DRISCOLL, Donnach Joseph→
director · ~63y · appointed 2001-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROBINSON, Adrian Mervyn→
director · ~62y · appointed 2001-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-07-23 · resigned 2001-07-23
Resigned
FAIR, Julie→
director · ~69y · appointed 2002-07-04 · resigned 2004-02-29
Resigned
COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-07-23 · resigned 2001-07-23
Resigned
COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-07-23 · resigned 2001-07-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Republic Bank (UK) Limited
Debenture1 property27/08/2003—
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Recent filings (85 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-13
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-10-22
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-10-22
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-10-22
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2024-10-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-05