ABBEY MASONRY AND RESTORATION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04261562 · ltd · incorporated 2001-07-30
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 23700
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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 (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
59 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
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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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees6600

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-10-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-10-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-07-31
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  8. 2019-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-09-24
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2019-08-02
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  11. 2019-07-31
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    WALDRON, Hannah Emily appointed
    secretary
  12. 2018-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-07-20
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    JONES, Angela Joy resigned
    secretary
  14. 2017-10-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-04-21
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  17. 2016-04-19
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  18. 2001-07-30
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    Company incorporated
    As ABBEY MASONRY AND RESTORATION LIMITED
  19. 2001-07-30
    ➕
    KLEINBERG, John Anthony appointed
    director
  20. 2001-07-30
    ➕
    KLEINBERG, Sharon appointed
    director
  21. 2001-07-30
    ➕
    JONES, Angela Joy appointed
    secretary
  22. 2001-07-30
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2001-07-30
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 67 — 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 67. 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 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Sharon Kleinberg
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr John Anthony Kleinberg
Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2001-07-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC23700 — SIC 23700

Registered office

Heol Parc Mawr
Cross Hands Business Park
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA14 6RE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-13
Last: 2025-07-30

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WALDRON, Hannah Emily→
secretary · appointed 2019-07-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KLEINBERG, John Anthony→
director · ~67y · appointed 2001-07-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KLEINBERG, Sharon→
director · ~63y · appointed 2001-07-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JONES, Angela Joy→
secretary · appointed 2001-07-30 · resigned 2018-07-20
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-07-30 · resigned 2001-07-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-31
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2020-07-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-16
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2019-09-24