A & P MANUFACTURING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04421590 · ltd · incorporated 2002-04-22
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 18.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 14142
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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
3 live charges · oldest 18.1y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.1 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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS| Metric | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 300 | 400 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
- • 3 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-27📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2026-02-27📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2026-02-27📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-07-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-20📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-07-25📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-07-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-27📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-06-27📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-04-12📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-09-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-07-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-15📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-08-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2015-11-17🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2008-11-05🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2008-06-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2007-01-19➕ROBINSON, Peter appointeddirector
- 2003-06-09➖MORRIS, Pauline resignedsecretary
- 2003-03-09➕ROBINSON, Peter appointedsecretary
- 2002-04-22🏢Company incorporatedAs A & P MANUFACTURING LIMITED
- 2002-04-22➕ROBINSON, Angelika Helen appointeddirector
- 2002-04-22➕MORRIS, Pauline appointedsecretary
- 2002-04-22➕WITHENSHAW, Robert Martin appointedsecretary
- 2002-04-22➖WITHENSHAW, Robert Martin resignedsecretary
- 2002-04-22➕MARSHALL, Robert George Bruce appointeddirector
- 2002-04-22➖MARSHALL, Robert George Bruce resigneddirector
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — 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 candidateStrong 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.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- 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
cleanNo 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 |
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Mr Peter Robinson Individual · British · DOB 01/1947 · age 79 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mrs Lorna Sarah Collinsceased 26/02/2026· 25-50% shares
- Mr Andrew Mark Robinsonceased 26/02/2026· 25-50% shares
- Mrs Angelika Helen Robinsonceased 26/02/2026· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-04-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC14142 — SIC 14142
Registered office
54 Moorgreen
Newthorpe
Nottingham
Notts
NG16 2FB
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-13
Last: 2026-02-27
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
Active
ROBINSON, Angelika Helen→
Activedirector · ~78y · appointed 2002-04-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ROBINSON, Peter→
Activedirector · ~79y · appointed 2007-01-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MORRIS, Pauline→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2002-04-22 · resigned 2003-06-09
WITHENSHAW, Robert Martin→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2002-04-22 · resigned 2002-04-22
MARSHALL, Robert George Bruce→
Resigneddirector · ~71y · appointed 2002-04-22 · resigned 2002-04-22
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 17/11/2015 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 05/11/2008 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 26/06/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (76 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-27
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-27
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-27
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-20
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-06-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-06-27