COMPOSITE INTEGRATION LTD

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04414508 · ltd · incorporated 2002-04-11

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

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£4.63M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 28960

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -37% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 10.4y

30/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 10.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (8 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

76 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £4,630,736

Net assets shrinking

Down £644,123 YoY

Cash YoY

-37%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.4m

↓ 37% YoY

Net Worth

£4.6m

↓ 12% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Cash	£1.44M	£2.28M
Net assets	£4.63M	£5.27M

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 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-01-30
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accounts · AA
2025-01-31
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accounts · AA
2024-01-31
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accounts · AA
2023-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-18
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officers · AP01
2022-01-11
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-01-11
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-01-11
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incorporation · MA
2022-01-10
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officers · AP01
2022-01-10
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officers · AP01
2022-01-10
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officers · AP01
2022-01-10
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officers · AP01
2022-01-10
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officers · AP01
2022-01-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-01-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-12-21
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mortgage · MR01
2021-12-20
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BOND, Alan Francis appointed
director
2021-12-20
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ELLIS, Kelly Louise appointed
director
2021-12-20
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RAYNOR, David Jon appointed
director
2021-12-20
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SEARLE, Timothy John appointed
director
2021-12-20
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THOMSON, Charles Peter appointed
director
2021-12-20
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WARD, Stephen Michael appointed
director
2021-12-20
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Richard John Bland
2021-07-02
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officers · TM01
2021-07-01
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LEONARD-WILLIAMS, Stephen Barnabas resigned
director
2021-02-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2016-07-11
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
2016-03-18
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
2002-04-11
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Company incorporated
As COMPOSITE INTEGRATION LTD
2002-04-11
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BLAND, Richard John appointed
secretary
2002-04-11
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BLAND, Richard John appointed
director
2002-04-11
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LEONARD-WILLIAMS, Stephen Barnabas 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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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.)

Group structure

Actea Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Actea Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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COMPOSITE INTEGRATION LTD

This company · 04414508

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Actea Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	20/12/2021

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Cisw Holdings Ltdceased 20/12/2021· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest

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

Incorporated2002-04-11

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC28960 — SIC 28960

Registered office

Unit 1f Long Acre

Saltash

PL12 6LZ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-25

Last: 2026-04-11