AUGLASS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04422186 · 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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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not disclosed
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: low (47/100)

Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
58 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.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  2. 2024-06-11
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  3. 2023-06-22
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  4. 2022-06-21
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  5. 2021-06-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  6. 2020-06-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  7. 2019-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  8. 2018-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  9. 2017-12-29
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-29
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    legacy
    miscellaneous · ANNOTATION
  11. 2016-05-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-05-24
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    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-06-15
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  14. 2015-06-15
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  15. 2015-06-15
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-05-27
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    COOPER, Colin appointed
    director
  17. 2002-04-22
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    Company incorporated
    As AUGLASS LIMITED
  18. 2002-04-22
    ➕
    COOPER, Colin appointed
    secretary
  19. 2002-04-22
    ➕
    FRIEND, Paula Jane Mary appointed
    director
  20. 2002-04-22
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2002-04-22
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2002-04-22
    ➕
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2002-04-22
    ➖
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

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 80 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-04-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

24 Haughgate Close
Woodbridge
Suffolk
IP12 1LQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-06
Last: 2026-04-22

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

COOPER, Colin→
secretary · appointed 2002-04-22
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Active
COOPER, Colin→
director · ~80y · appointed 2015-05-27
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Active
FRIEND, Paula Jane Mary→
director · ~60y · appointed 2002-04-22
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Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-04-22 · resigned 2002-04-22
Resigned
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-04-22 · resigned 2002-04-22
Resigned

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Recent filings (58 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-06-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-06-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-06-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-05-28